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Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of ...

In a highly unusual new report, the Centers for Disease Control warned that America is threatened by a wave of new antibiotic-proof germs that could threaten public health, and that overuse of ...

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is the nation's second largest civilian employer after WalMart. Although successfully self-funded throughout its long history, it is currently struggling to stay ...

Artist and activist Steve Lambert's traveling piece Capitalism Works For Me! is a large illuminated sign and a voting podium. You vote "yes" or "no" on whether capitalism works for you and the ...

CREDIT: Wikimedia Meeting with a group of unemployed workers, Pope Francis abandoned his prepared text on Sunday to make some of his strongest remarks against economic inequality. Later, he spoke to

The shift with Mexico's northern neighbor is especially stark. Americans now make up more than three-quarters of Mexico's roughly one million documented foreigners, up from around two-thirds in ...

This essay was written by Jason: 35 years old and a white male combat veteran of Afghanistan, Jason has been on food stamps since June. He thinks the reality of being on food stamps isn't shameful,...

Hurting our relations with Latin America. Another consequence of unchecked spying.

More than 5,250 gallons of crude oil have spilled into a river in Colorado, contaminating much of the same region that was ravaged days earlier by a monumental flood that left no fewer than eight ...

Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government's ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges ...