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Rachel Maddow reviews Rand Paul's stand on the Civil Rights Act.

The Senate passed by 59-39 the most sweeping changes in government regulation of the nation's financial institutions since the Great Depression, including strong new consumer and investor protections and …

WASHINGTON — The nation's top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, announced his resignation Friday after months of friction and repeated duels with White House officials. …

When natural resource industry giants get hit with worker safety and environmental violations, they open their checkbook, pay a fine, and go on operating as per usual. …

Three Republican senators from the Northeast join majority Democrats to advance a financial reform bill to tighten regulation of Wall Street. Senators voted 60 to 40 Thursday to end …

Johannesburg, South Africa - As South Africa ramps up a high-profile campaign to test 15 million people for HIV in the next year, experts are questioning whether the country’s …

The recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L.111-148, promises to make far-reaching changes to our current health care system. But the law’s benefits may go well beyond …

Housing foreclosure is ebbing and flowing across the US like the oil cloud in the Gulf of Mexico, shifting and poisoning as it goes about silently attacking us and …

Sheriff Scott Franklin of Jena, Louisiana, said he is trying to rid his community of drugs. Critics say he is pursuing revenge against the town's black community. At 4:00 …

As the sheriff’s truck followed our van several blocks through Phoenix, I kept thinking what the sight of that vehicle would mean for Silvia or Esperanza or Alejandra or …