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Trade union backs nearly 150 employees who have been picketing a Walmart store in the central Chinese city of Changde for two weeks, after management announced 4 March that the store would close ...

A model based study is full of gloom and doom: Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? It makes our book Global Insanity: How Homo sapiens Lost Touch with ...

A new study finds that as the planet warms, yields for important staple crops like wheat could decline sharply. It's St. Patrick's Day, which means the 100 million or so people of Irish descent ...

Rennie Gibbs's daughter, Samiya, was a month premature when she simultaneously entered the world and left it, never taking a breath. To experts who later examined the medical record, the stillborn ...

A complaint filed Monday in federal court in Idaho challenging the state's new "ag-gag" law is one of the most compelling I have read in a long time. As much a history lesson and muckraking ...

"This was a hack," the prosecutor said, addressing a trio of skeptical-looking judges in the US Third District Court of Appeals. The government was restating its case that, by obtaining private ...

While the 2014 elections may be favoring the Republican party, a new Pew Research study has some encouraging data for progressives and liberals, reflecting a growing electorate that is quickly ...

If you watch only one thing today, watch this. Short version: The GOP is a staggering corpse that is fading into irrelevance and the real future is in the fight between pro-corporate Democrats and ...

Photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale wants to make people angry; as angry as he is about Africa's first world war and the surprising way in which we are funding thi

Author Paul Taylor explains why it's hard to start a generational war from your childhood bedroom. Air Date: March 10, 2014