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France’s conservative President, Nicolas Sarkozy, ran for office in 2007 on a program of making the French economy more like that of the United States.  He picked a bad …

Washington - The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Britain could legally extradite five suspects wanted in the United States on terrorism charges, including Abu Hamza …

Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign on Tuesday, bowing to the inevitability of Mitt Romney's nomination and ending his improbable, come-from-behind quest to become the party's conservative standard-bearer in …

Washington, DC - Accelerating the transition of military responsibility to the Afghan government, the United States agreed Sunday to hand control of special operations missions to Afghan forces, including …

Georgetown University law students wait in line for admission tickets to view oral arguments on the constitutionality of the health care law, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, March …

Social activism has always been a popular subject for documentarians because it presents stories of both cause and characters. The 10 powerful films below are not a complete list …

A seismograph monitoring an earthquake. (Photo: Bill McKay / Flickr)A U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) team has found that a sharp jump in earthquakes in America’s heartland appears to be …

My dream is to see real agrarian reform for all the land, so no child goes hungry, and no mother sheds tears because her son was murdered trying to …

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has generated widespread media attention this year. The process, which injects water and chemicals into the ground to release “natural” gas and oil from shale …

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a news conference at the Warwick Hotel in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. (Photo: Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times) When Bill McKibben …