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Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years

The threat to global heath and safety that is unique to nuclear power lives on.

Bread and roses. It was the battle cry of the thousands of striking women and their supporters who marched through the streets of Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912, in the …

This historical representation is the result of two decades of lobbying that culminated in a legal obligation requiring political parties to fill at least 40 percent of their candidate …

In today's Election Countdown 2012 news: The Secret Service is going to great lengths to protect the Democratic National Convention this year, police in California respond to a sidewalk chalk …

The truth is that Joe Paterno was more powerful at Penn State than any athletic director, more powerful even than the university's president.

The power to preserve and expand reproductive rights is inextricably tied the right to vote.

The scandals suggest a systemic culture of cronyism and self-dealing in city government that threatens to overshadow the capital.

Pesticide drift means that whatever is used to kill pests also gets ingested by children and adults when it wafts through the air into their lungs or when it …

Mr. Paterno was to be paid $3 million at the end of the 2011 season if he agreed it would be his last.