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A middle-aged man has set himself on fire in the center of the Japanese capital in an apparent protest to government plans to change Japan's pacifist constitution. Authorities hosed the man down and

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is widely believed to be in the process of transferring significant regulatory power from sovereign governments to private industry ...

By The ConversationFriday, June 27, 2014 10:58 EDT By Andrew Smith , The Open University Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, has scored a major publicity coup in ...

Among the 80 percent of registered Republicans and Democrats who stayed away from Maryland's primary was Sally Staehle of Baltimore. She wrote me a letter to explain why she took a pass on voting ...

Posted on: Friday, June 20, 2014 By Wendy Glauser CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), June 19, 2014 TORONTO -- With the prospect of greater pay, fewer bureaucratic headaches and the ...

In the heavily fracked Keystone State, the economic interests of frackers trump the health concerns of residents. That much is abundantly clear in the wake of an extraordinary story by StateImpact ...

Americans are more divided than ever by political ideology, as a recent Pew Research Center study makes clear. About a third of people on each side say of the other that its proponents "are so ...

Florida Rep. Alan Grayson is hosting a "crypto-party" on Capitol Hill for colleagues in Congress to learn how to use encryption technology next week, according to an invite sent from an aide in his

The Great Recession is a story of numbers: rising unemployment rates, the widening gap between rich and poor, contracting GDP. But a new study has added a figure that underscores the human cost of ...

To insurance companies, there's no doubt that climate change is here: They are beginning to file lawsuits against small towns and cities who they say haven't prepared for the floods and storms that