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Obama Seeks Partial Extension of Bush-Era Tax Cuts

Washington - Losing elections is an occupational hazard for politicians, so there's no need to get all weepy about the Democratic officeholders who suddenly find themselves with more time …

The American people have spoken, but it's impossible to decode their incoherent message. Drunk with their capture of the House of Representatives, the Republicans thunder that the verdict of …

Hours after San Francisco Bay Area radio show host J.R. Valrey screened his documentary film about police brutality at a university in Philadelphia daily newspapers in that city carried …

Nominal wages have risen at a 2.2 percent annual rate over the last quarter.

Today, November 5, 2010, marks the one-year anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting, in which former Army psychiatrist Major Nadal Halik Hasan shot and killed 13 people at Fort …

Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many - they are few. …

Tet Kole on the Needs of Haitian Farmers Tet Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti) is the oldest peasant group in Haiti, born covertly in …

This week, the taut but surprisingly emotional thriller, “Fair Game,” hits selected theaters. It's about the Bush administration's retaliation against CIA operative Valerie Plame and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson …

In the next-to-last US Senate race to be determined, Sen. Patty Murray (D) of Washington State has won reelection. That leaves just Alaska, where incumbent Lisa Murkowski – a …