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New York - Despite a federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling, new permits and controversial environmental waivers for oil rigs continue to be granted, sparking criticism from policymakers and …

The five remaining Uighur detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have turned down resettlement offers from other countries, and have been appealing for release into the US. A …

President Barack Obama visited oil spill stricken Louisiana Friday, telling coastal residents “you will not be abandoned,” even as BP said it could take all weekend to complete its …

Translated Wednesday 19 May 2010, by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Isabelle Metral The policies of liberalization and deregulation have been confirmed and deepened in each of the European …

As I write, a plume of crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon explosion is moving toward Cuba, our purported enemy - but an enemy surrounded by the healthiest coral …

Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at New York City's Yeshiva University, starts “The Lost Soul of Higher Education” with a blunt assessment: "In reacting to the economic insecurities of …

Lahore, Pakistan - Gunmen stormed two separate mosques in the eastern city of Lahore during Friday prayers, killing at least 80 worshippers of the minority Ahmadi sect. The Pakistan …

On Thursday, 18 senators voted for Senator Feingold's amendment to the war supplemental requiring the president to establish a timetable for the redeployment of US military forces from Afghanistan. …

The Senate has approved continued funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan amounting to $60 billion, reported Democracy Now!. This will include full funding for the 33,000 additional …

“An upside-down faucet, just open and running out.” That’s how an oil-spill expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute describes the massive release of crude oil into the Gulf …