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'An Occupy Wall Street activist charged with assaulting a police officer is a 'promoter of non-violence' who wandered into a tussle with law enforcement while celebrating St Patrick's Day, her ...

Last Friday, a US District Court judge threw out a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and ACLU Nationwide. The suite challenged the constitutionality of assassinating U.S...

Car makers have embraced automation and replaced humans with robots for years. But Toyota is deliberately taking a step backward and replacing automated machines in some factories in Japan and ...

A wrongly imprisoned man has been released after decades in prison thanks to exonerating evidence that proved he was thousands of miles from the scene of the crime, on vacation to a theme park in ...

Talk about incredible timing! On the same day that Comcast and Time Warner Cable are filing their merger proposal paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission, Consumerist has announced tha...

If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it - by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun

If America needed a reminder that it is fast becoming a second-rate nation, and that every economic policy of the Republican Party is wrongheaded, it got one this week with the release of the Social

It's getting more expensive to be poor. Over the past two years, prices have risen more quickly for many of the things that low-income households spend a lot of their money on, such as rent and uti...

Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them - one of many company crimes for which

Written by Liza Long, republished from The Blue Review Friday's horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ...