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In Haiti, Cholera Claims New Victims Daily

On Leaving The Guardian and the Future Ahead

"Too Scared to Go Outside": Family of Pakistani Grandmother Killed in U.S. Drone Strike Speaks Out

"These Drones Attack Us and the Whole World is Silent": New Film Exposes Secret U.S. War

Chilean Students Poised for Congressional Victories

Activists of Color Lead Charge Against Surveillance, NSA

Congressional No-Show at 'Heart-Breaking' Drone Survivor Hearing

‘Homeland Stupidity’ creator sues NSA, DHS

Barry's Stasi : Obama's Insider Threat Program Turns "Colleagues Against Each Other"

Monsanto and Pepsi trying to stop GMO labeling law in Washington state

Shackles and Ivy: The Secret History of How Slavery Helped Build America’s Elite Colleges

Filmmaker Uncovers Her Family’s Shocking Slave-Trading History, Urges Americans to Explore Own Roots

12 Percent of U.S. Spice Imports Contaminated, F.D.A. Finds

A Year After Hurricane, 22,000 Households Remain Displaced in New York Region

6 dead in Greenwood County, South Carolina, shooting

BP's "Widespread Human Health Crisis"

US Navy gets largest and most expensive destroyer ever

Former Irish President, Climate Justice Advocate Mary Robinson Urges Divestment of Fossil Fuel Firms

Perpetual War: How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?

How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt

Kenyan anti-rape petition reaches one million

Edith Head: Google Doodle honors Hollywood legend (+video)

Glenn Greenwald: Media Venture Will Empower Adversarial Journalism to Hold the Powerful Accountable

Genetically Engineered GE Salmon Growing in the Dark in South Dakota

Google Doodle Honors Edith Head, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer

Ban the Bomb!

Penn State agrees on $59.7 million child sex abuse settlement

The European Drone War

Data Shows Democrats Fully Embraced by Surveillance Industry

The World Without US

Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'

Palestinians reach out to 50+ nations calling for economic boycott of Israeli settlers

America's Most Beloved War Criminals

FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust

Rock pioneer Lou Reed dies at 71

Venezuela to create 'ministry of happiness'

Black Panthers' Fight For Free Health Care Documented in New Book

Guitar Center Workers Rock the Shop Floor

Main Street Comeback: How Independent Stores are Thriving (Even in the Age of Amazon)

Monsanto's Very Bad Week: Three Big Blows for GMO Food

US Spies on Its Allies For Business Intel, Not For National Security

CryptoSeal follows Labivit in shutdown over NSA and FISA secret court threat

Saudi women drive in protest with little problem

Addicted to the Apocalypse

Obama's Lethal Empire: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries

A Drone Warrior’s Confession: Ex-Air Force Pilot Brandon Bryant on His Trauma from Remote Killing

In 1999, grand jury indicted the Ramseys in JonBenet's death

Parents Organize Boycott To End Standardized Testing of 4-year-olds

US Drone Strikes Are War Crimes, Despite Human Groups Reluctancy to Blast Obama

Stop Watching Us: Edward Snowden supports largest privacy rally in US History

Eavesdropped on Amtrak: Ex-NSA Chief Gets Taste of Own Medicine

No reports of damage after 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Japan

Pentagon agency creating digital map of the world

NASA hails new era of laser-fast interplanetary internet

Growing Up Black in American Apartheid - Glen Ford Pt1

Eight governors make zero-emission car pledge

Fukushima moves radioactive water as it braces for Typhoon Francisco

Time to End the Torture and Jailing of Palestinian Children

Justice Department Misrepresents JP Morgan Settlement

US Diplomat: Each US Drone Attack Creates '40 to 60' New Enemies

Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits

It's The Spies, Not the Leaks, That Threaten Our Security

Russia drops piracy charges against Greenpeace activists

"Prisoners of Profit": Despite Widespread Abuse, Private Juvenile Jail Firm Expands Empire

"Cash for Kids": Firms Behind Juvenile Prison Bribes Reach $2.5 Million Settlement in Civil Suit

For Transgender Patients, a Growing Fight Over Health Coverage

Corporate Media's Hidden Wave of Consolidation

Female Prisoners' Babies Shouldn't Be Sentenced to Life Without Breast Milk

America's New Employment Reality

Indy Chamber votes to oppose state gay marriage ban

Deadly 911 Calls: NYPD Kill African Immigrant Student Inside Home After Mother Calls Ambulance

Deadly 911 Calls Pt. 2: Police Kill Bipolar Puerto Rican Artist After Wife Calls for Help

Art Speaks Louder Than Words

Apple unveils iPad Air, iPad Mini with Retina display

Student Kills Teacher, Then Himself, at Middle School

The $13 Billion JPMorgan Settlement Is a Good Start—Now Someone Should Go To Jail

The Business of America Is War

A Fascist Revival Stirs in Spain

Gulf Ecosystem in Crisis Three Years After BP Spill

Food Stamp Corporate Welfare

Glenn Greenwald and the $250 Million "Angel Investor"

The Abject Failure of Reaganomics

We Want the Same Things That You Want

Charter Schools and the Future of Public Education

Meat So Cheap You Could Die

NSA Spied on Mexican Government for Years

The Government Is Open Again ... Now What?

Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land

Sen. Sanders: 'Global Warming a Far More Serious Problem Than Al Qaeda'

Syria: From Refugees to Asylum Seekers

New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriages

Longshoreman Strike Shuts Down Port of Baltimore

Obama to name Jeh Johnson as next DHS Secretary

NY Federal Reserve Examiner Fired After Submitting Critical Report of Goldman Sachs

Canada Sends Armed Paramilitaries to Clear Fracking Protest

Government Shutdown Ended, Austerity Drive Lives On

Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race

Fast-Food Giants Make Billions While Their Workers Use Billions in Welfare Benefits

SF's Union Square Evacuated

Kaplan Teachers Demand Justice

Lawmakers launch budget talks as Washington returns to work

Kaplan Teachers Demand Justice

'Experimenting' on a Death Row Inmate: Florida to Execute Man by Untested Drug

Putin Opponent Spared Prison Term in Russia

2500+ Killed by Drones in Pakistan, Names of Victims Now Available

"Totally Self-Inflicted Damage": U.S. on Verge of Default as Pain from 16-Day Shutdown Spreads

Freeing Marissa Alexander

Seeing Its Own Money at Risk, China Rails at U.S.

BP's Silent Disaster

Dutch want answers to beating of diplomat in Moscow

JPMorgan to Pay $100 Million and Make Admission of Wrongdoing in London Whale Pact

Warren Buffett: It would be 'asinine' if US defaults

The Awarding of the World Food Prize to a Monsanto GMO Executive Is a Travesty

Would Janet Yellin as Fed Chair Mark a Shift in Economic Policy?

2013 is looking a lot like 1927, a scary year in American history.

Retired African-American Philadelphia Police: Stop-and-frisk is 'demeaning'

Chris Hedges | The Folly of Empire

In Photos: The Oil Spill North Dakota Tried to Keep Secret

Cleanup at 505 Toxic Sites Suspended During Government Shutdown

2 girls arrested on bullying charges after suicide

Brazil Agrobusiness Lobby Set to Appropriate Native Land and Timber

Wall Street Whistleblower Awarded $14 Million as a Result of Dodd-Frank Act

The Perfect Epitaph for Establishment Journalism

Why Food Should be a Commons Not a Commodity

Philadelphia Cuts School Nurses, 6th Grader Dies of Asthma Attack With No Nurse On Duty

Another U.S. Whistleblower Behind Bars? Investor Jailed After Exposing Corrupt Azerbaijani Oil Deal

The Answer to the Great Question of Education Reform? The Number 42

“Edward Snowden Is A Patriot”: Ex-NSA CIA, FBI and Justice Whistleblowers Meet Leaker in Moscow

Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance: Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies

Hurricane Sandy Evacuees Suddenly Left Without a Place to Live Again

Malala Yousafzai Tells Obama Drones Are "Fueling Terrorism"

Atomic Energy—Unnecessary, Uneconomic, Uninsurable, Unevacuable and Unsafe

US Accused of Unprecedented Assault on Press Freedom

Access restored for food stamp users

Protesters Fill Streets of Santiago: Chile indigenous groups mark Columbus Day with outrage

Secret FISA Court Extends NSA Phone Spying

India temple stampede in Madhya Pradesh 'kills 89'

'Baby Hope' case: Cousin confesses to sexually assaulting, killing toddler Anjelica Castillo

Time to Close Guantanamo

Food stamp debit cards not working in 17 states

800,000 Evacuated as Powerful Cyclone Hits India

Mid-Market artists facing eviction

NM Still Searching for Multiple Teens Missing from Ranch

New measures at S.F. General after patient death

Solar Power Sparks Backlash From California Utilities

Race Track Pioneer: Former Formula One test driver Maria de Villota dies

Google to Use Your Data in Ads Via 'Shared Endorsements'

Mass Killings carried out by Syria's extremists financed by private Gulf donors

Worse Than Nixon? Committee to Protect Journalists Warns About Obama Crackdown on Press Freedom

Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?

Janet Yellen as Fed Chair No Victory for Progressive Economics

Julian Assange says ‘Civil behavior does not apply to Obama’

Canadian author Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for literature

"Edward Snowden Has Done This Country a Service": ACLU Praises Leaker for Kick-Starting NSA Debate

3 Months After Morsi Coup & Hundreds of Deaths, U.S. Scales Back Military Aid to Egypt

Immigration Rights Activists Joined by Lawmakers as 200 Hundred Arrested in DC

Brazil’s Rousseff on Canada leak: US and allies must stop spying ‘once and for all’

'Coal Is Dead in New England': Region's Biggest Polluter Announces Plant Closure

Higher gun ownership equals higher gun violence

Russia slams Netherlands over diplomat's beating, 'deadline for explanation' passes

Without Single-Payer, Patchwork U.S. Healthcare Leaves Millions Uninsured

‘Shutdown’: China’s Xi upstages Obama’s Asia pivot

Exonerated Black Panther dies hours after serving 41 years in jail

Here Comes the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, Dragging a Broken Moral Compass

Higgs boson scientists win Nobel prize in physics

Boston school bus drivers go on strike

Money and Politics: The Hidden Danger in the Supreme Court’s ‘McCutcheon’ Case

New Law in Turkey Criminalizes Protests Before They Happen

The Cost of Saving the Planet

Lavabit: How One Company Refused to Give FBI "Unrestricted" Access to Emails

Government shutdown leaves little kids in the lurch

The Golden Dawn Murder Case, Larry Summers and the New Fascism

As Congress Stalls on Immigration Deal, Obama Poised to Deport Two Millionth Immigrant

Government Shutdown Spares Military but Hurts Children and the Poor

"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact

Hillary Clinton: It’s Not Her Turn

Saudi black op team behind Damascus chem weapons attack – diplomatic sources

Rebelling Against Massive Use of Pesticides, Brazilians Shift to Organic Foods

Schizophrenia meds found at home of Miriam Carey after killing by police

Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden jokes of putting Snowden on kill list

"Imperialism & Fundamentalism Have Joined Hands": Malalai Joya on 12 Years of U.S.-Led Afghan War

Adobe reports massive security breach

Five Years After the Big Bailout: Time to Begin Building a “New Economy”

Has GOP Already Defeated Obamacare? State Opt-Outs Leave Millions of Poor Without Health Insurance

Government Shutdown Disproportionately Impacts Working Poor, People of Color

Japan to pay $3.1bn to remove US troops from Okinawa, will host spy drones

Herman Wallace, Free at Last

No Triumph for Austerity

‘Let’s stop this government-by-extortion’ - Green Party’s Stein on US shutdown

Activists Unveil Massive Quilt Marking First National Memorial For Rape Survivors

Russia charges 14 from Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise with piracy after protest

The Coming Domestic Drone Wars

The Forgotten War: 12 Years in Afghanistan Down the Memory Hole

FBI seizes ‘Silk Road' black market domain, arrests owner

Snowden in Final Running For EU Human Rights Award

Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'

Jellyfish invasion leads to Swedish nuclear reactor shutdown

At 66, author Tom Clancy dies

Louisiana Levee Board Sues BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron for Coast Damage

Government shutdown: 800,000 workers go without pay; Congress in stalemate

The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution

Angola Prisoner Henry James on His 30 Years Behind Bars for Crime He Didn’t Commit

Republicans Win Standoff, Shoot Hostages Anyway

Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Given Just Days to Live After 42 Years in Solitary

A Single-Payer System, Like Medicare, is the Cure for America's Ailing Healthcare

Venezuela expels top U.S. diplomat, two other embassy officials