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Journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that the Bush administration secretly trained an Iranian opposition group on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorists. Hersh reports the U.S. Joint Special …

The death of remarkable Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall from mesothelioma last month, at the age of just 56, has brought back into sharp focus the deadly properties of asbestos. Hall was …

The real divide in US incomes isn't between the top 1 percent and the other 99 percent. It's between those whose income is reported by their employers to the …

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, right, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) shake hands during a campaign event at Lawrence University in Appleton, …

The people and companies pushing the tar-sands pipeline don't want you to know that most of this oil won't be made into gasoline for our vehicles. “It's certainly true,” …

America hasn't always had a Congress full of can't-do seat-warmers, small thinkers and penny pinchers determined to castrate the national government and let bankers and CEOs run the world. …

Los Angeles - The chancellor of the California community college system has requested that Santa Monica College hold off on its plan to begin offering popular courses for a …

Washington - Barack Obama got off to a bad start with the Supreme Court the very moment he was sworn in as president, and it's not getting any better. …

Every year I trek down to a nondescript office building near Wall Street with a bag full of receipts and a belly full of anxiety. When it’s tax time, …