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Washington - New York hedge fund manager John Paulson was one of the first to predict the collapse of the subprime mortgage market — and to cash in on …

Gay rights activists cheered Obama's memo on hospital visitation rights, but the president faces increasing tension with constituencies who helped elect him and expected faster results. Washington - President …

Rio de Janeiro - Since the emergence of the Non-Aligned Movement, there has been no louder and more compelling call for a rethinking of the international economic system as …

Raleigh, North Carolina - Five former employees of the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater violated a series of federal firearms laws to give the company a leg …

No matter how much this week's Pulitzer Prize triumphalism hides it, the fact remains that journalism these days is “a disaster,” as Ted Koppel said recently. And unfortunately, retrospection …

Fly from Atlanta to Houston, and you may start at an airport named after two mayors and land at one named for a president. While in the air, you …

With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't so single-minded about just who's responsible for …

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander may well be harboring the thought attributed to prevaricator Oliver North upon being spared punishment - and instead getting rewarded handsomely - for …

The razor-wire and concrete frontier between Israel and Gaza is intermittently interrupted by remote-controlled metal observation towers equipped with motion sensors. When the sensors detect something, the metal petals …

Such is the prevailing disregard for the fate of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo that last week, when Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to former Secretary of …