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Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona Desert Crossing
Nogales, Mexico - As he drops his last purification tablet into a pail of swirling, murky water, Sergio, 26, stares out toward the desert. Recently deported from Arizona, where …

Zubaydah’s Torture, Detention Subject of Senate Intelligence Inquiry
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has launched an investigation into Abu Zubaydah, the “high-value” detainee captured in March 2002 that the Bush administration wrongly claimed was one of …

The Firm Not Charged in Goldman Case Made Billions on Collapse
Washington - New York hedge fund manager John Paulson was one of the first to predict the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — and to cash in on …

Obama Grants Hospital Visitation Rights to Gay and Lesbian Couples
Gay rights activists cheered Obama's memo on hospital visitation rights, but the president faces increasing tension with constituencies who helped elect him and expected faster results. Washington - President …

Emerging Powers Cooking Up New International Order
Rio de Janeiro - Since the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement, there has been no louder and more compelling call for a rethinking of the international economic system as …

Blackwater Indicted for Violating Federal Firearms Laws
Raleigh, North Carolina - Five former employees of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater violated a series of federal firearms laws to give the company a leg …

Journalism’s Parasites
No matter how much this week's Pulitzer Prize triumphalism hides it, the fact remains that journalism these days is “a disaster,” as Ted Koppel said recently. And unfortunately, retrospection …

Politicians Honoring Their Kind
Fly from Atlanta to Houston, and you may start at an airport named after two mayors and land at one named for a president. While in the air, you …

Crocodile Tears on Wall Street
With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't so single-minded about just who's responsible for …

Lie to Congress; Get Fourth Star
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander may well be harboring the thought attributed to prevaricator Oliver North upon being spared punishment - and instead getting rewarded handsomely - for …