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Sanford, FL - Family members of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who was arrested last week on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, testified at …

UPDATE APR. 18 8:45 P.M.: Host and TV producer Dick Clark died Wednesday of a heart attack at the age 82. He was best known for his role in …

Yesterday, we published the first part of an interview with Matt Delmont, author of The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil …

Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war — that corpus of regulations developed painstakingly over centuries by …

Dozens arrested in an international day of solidarity where 1500 activists tried to land in Israel's Ben Gurion Airport to travel to the occupied Palestinian territories.  

A Transportation Security Agency officer guides a passenger through a body scanner at BWI International Airport in Baltimore, on November 19, 2010. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / The New York …

Ruthelle Frank was able to vote in Tuesday's primary elections in Wisconsin. But it took multiple lawsuits and 10 months to make it happen. And she still may not …

“The report simply confirms what we all knew already…the police actions were brutal and unnecessary,” said Occupy Sacramento lawyer Jeff Kravitz. “As the big banks and the gangster government …