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Statistics show Baltimore has as many as 40,000 vacant homes but only 43 affordable units are available per 100 extremely low-income households

By: Derrick Broze On Friday U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration for the 2011 deaths of three United States citizens, including a 16 year old ...

By Tom BoggioniSunday, April 6, 2014 17:40 EDT An artists collective has unfurled a massive poster showing a child's face in a heavily bombed area of Pakistan in the hopes that it will give pause to

Our current weather, and the damage caused by the appalling floods across Britain, changes everything. Or at least it should. Perhaps it should have done long before, when the hurricane hit Haiti ...

For those of us living far from the south, discussions of Mississippi may make us recall the Civil Rights Movement, some period in time we now think more likely relevant in a history book. But ...

Thomas Jefferson was a smart dude. And in one of his letters to John Adams, dated June 27, 1813, Jefferson made an observation about the nature of politics that science is only now, two centuries ...

In the U.S., many of the poorest citizens have the worst access to nutritious foods. They live in "food deserts"--places that lack convenient markets or stores that sell fresh fruits, vegetables ...

Serious issues regarding constitutional law rose to the surface on Friday as a US federal judge dismissed a court case against the US government by families of three Americans killed in US drone ...

UPS sent out termination notices to 250 of their Queens, New York drivers after they held a 90-minute protest in support of a fellow worker. It was supposed to be a symbolic act of solidarity with ...

In recent under-covered news, the state of Florida considered purging non-legal voters from state lists for the second time in two years. At face value, this doesn't seem like a bad thing, but voter