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As U.S. and British oil companies sign contracts with the Iraqi government, is it time to declare Big Oil the "victor" in the bloody venture?

Iraqi former battle zone sees abnormal clusters of infant tumours and deformities.

In a rare display of agreement between advocates who have spent years in fierce opposition, the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday paid tribute to the Department of Justice for …

Here we go again. Whenever conservative stalwart Jesse Helms didn't like something in a bill, he would pull out an abortion amendment to slow things down. Helms is …

Don't ever claim that nobody told you this could happen.

Washington - The most dreadful burden of the presidency - the power to send men and women to die for their country - seems to weigh heavily on …

President Obama will go to Asia next week and has promised to say something about the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the U.S. dollar. It would be …

Last September, just as Congress was getting ready to pass a Republican-sponsored initiative to withhold federal funds from the community advocacy group ACORN, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New …

Advocates for the mentally ill say that mixing felons, mentally ill people, the elderly and disabled people at nursing homes in Illinois doesn't help serve …

It's time to stop the verbal pretense. In the Near East, there is no negotiation "process" underway. Furthermore, there is also no prospect for peace. …