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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Still operating under Bush-era policies that President Barack Obama last year called “a mess,” the Pentagon will resume military commission hearings for accused terrorists Wednesday …

This isn’t the first time that West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine has had safety issues. An explosion Monday that left at least 25 miners dead (four are still …

In my 1950s childhood, Ripley's Believe It or Not was part of everyday life, a syndicated comics page feature where you could stumble upon such mind-boggling facts as: "If …

While being involved in your children's lives and studies is intuitively (and statistically) smart, some techniques are better than others. Despite media fondness for reports of hyper- and helicopter …

Engineers of Technital SpA, the Italian firm that designed the system to save Venice from flooding, are working on the future of Iraq as embodied in their plan for …

The Washington Post reports that rescuers suspended efforts early Tuesday to find four missing coal miners in West Virginia after a mine explosion killed 25 others in the deadliest …

Much has been made of the abuse showered on members of Congress at a recent tea-party demonstration on Capitol Hill. Georgia Congressman John Lewis was greeted with racial slurs. …

Yellowstone buffalo, despite being on the verge of extinction, have virtually no protections in the West. And media mogul Ted Turner's going to cash in on it. It is …

A school board in North Carolina has ended its innovative policy increasing diversity in its schools; students may end up paying the highest price. North Carolina’s history of racial …

They don't know who we be/ They don't know who we be/ - “DMX, Who We Be,” The Great Depression (2001). "[O]nly a small percentage of people ... have …