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Connecticut may become first U.S. state to allow deadly police drones

Japanese fleet returns from Antarctic hunt with 333 whales

I-85 Bridge Collapse In Atlanta Brings Headache To 250,000 Drivers A Day

North Dakota Oil Spill Vastly Underestimated

Maryland Bans Fracking

Article 50 triggers Brexit as England prepares to exit the European Union

Arab League: 'Reject apartheid system' in Palestine

Audi's unions demand electric model for main German plant

As Trump Complains About Alleged Surveillance, Republicans Gut Internet Privacy Rules (VIDEO)

Nuclear Power Suffers Major Blow With Westinghouse Bankruptcy

Ahmed Kathrada, icon of South Africa’s freedom struggle, dies

100-year-old SF woman dies after years of eviction battles

Cyclone Debbie smashes into Australia's Queensland coast

Tesla deal boosts Chinese presence in U.S. auto tech

ICE Retaliates Against Immigrants in Austin After Sheriff Limits Cooperation with Federal Agents (VIDEO)

'Religious left' emerging as U.S. political force in Trump era

After civilians killed in Mosul, Pentagon denies loosening rules

Fox News said Trump spent the weekend ‘working at the White House.’ He was at his golf club.

Bush Obama Trump: An Additional 1,000 Civilians Reportedly Killed by U.S.-Led Airstrikes

U.S., Britain, France, others skip nuclear weapons ban treaty talks

Democrats call for independent Russian probe apart from Congress

Gates Foundation's Rose-Colored World View Not Supported by Evidence

New Bill Aims to Unmask Visitors at Trump's Alternative White Houses

Illinois hairstylists trained in art of helping abuse victims

Iran sanctions 15 U.S. firms, citing human rights abuses and Israel ties

Merkel's challenger Martin Schulz lays out vision for chancellery

Largest Bank in Norway Sells Its Assets in Dakota Access Pipeline

Another Setback For DAPL As Norwegian Bank Rethinks Funding

Republicans turn fire on each other

Trump rally ends with a man getting beaten with a ‘Make America Great Again’ sign

Hundreds Arrested at Anti-Corruption Protests in Russia

18 Million U.S. Citizens Exposed to Lead-Contaminated Water Systems

Health Care For All Back on the Agenda

Florida's First Black State Attorney Faces Death Threats After Refusing Death Penalty for Cop Killer

YouTube’s Ad Problems Finally Blow Up in Google’s Face

French centre-right senators back Macron's presidential bid

Florida employee suspended for racist 'hung from a tree' statement

Florida NAACP: 'We stand with Aramis Ayala'

The NFL has effectively blackballed Colin Kaepernick

Trump tastes failure as U.S. House healthcare bill collapses

Putin meets French right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen at Kremlin

Trump approved Keystone XL pipeline would only create 35 permanent jobs

The bigotry behind Colin Kaepernick’s unemployment

Why Big Insurance Adores the American Health Care Act

Ex-Russian lawmaker shot dead in Kiev; Ukraine blames Russia

Memphis Officials to Help Save Aretha Franklin's Birthplace

No African citizens granted visas for African trade summit in California

Trump-Russia inquiry in 'grave doubt' after GOP chair briefs White House

Coal in 'Freefall' Worldwide, Report Finds

Intelligence chairman sparks storm with Trump briefing

Rep. Devin Nunes puts Trump politic career ahead of FBI investigation and public

Michael Moore Calls On Democrats To ‘Declare A National Emergency’ Over Trump

US Bombing Kills Dozens of Civilians Sheltering in Syrian School

Four dead, at least 20 injured in UK parliament 'terrorist' attack

Lead poisoning afflicts neighborhoods across California

Germany Converts Coal Mine Into Giant Battery Storage for Surplus Solar and Wind Power

Neil Gorsuch, Backed by $10 Million in Dark Money, Refuses to Weigh In on Citizens United

Sen. Schumer Calls on Democrats to Boycott Neil Gorsuch Vote While Trump is Under FBI Investigation

Federal Judge Orders Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Pocomoke, State of Maryland to Move Forward

Colin Kaepernick's unemployment signifies rotten state of affairs in the NFL

US Abandons Human Rights Hearing in 'Unprecedented Show of Disrespect'

Baltimore City Council Passes Historic $15 Minimum Wage

As Colin Kaepernick brings #LoveArmyForSomalia, NFL executives show what hate looks like

Trump takes credit for Colin Kaepernick not getting signed by NFL team

#NoDAPL Divestment Global Campaign Takes Off

Neil Gorsuch Does Not Belong on the Supreme Court

David Rockefeller, Banker, Philanthropist, Heir, Dies at 101

Trump Sends Judges to Sanctuary Cities to Ramp Up Deportations

Trump Requests Lifting Policy Limiting Drone Strike Casualties

It's Time to Dismantle Trump's Murder Budget and Defund Militarism

Uber president Jeff Jones quits, deepening turmoil

US Pressures G20 Into Dropping Climate Reference from Joint Statement

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode (Live 1958)

Rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry dead at 90

Chuck Berry: American Visionary

Moscow in Florida: Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings

J.C. Penny plans to close 138 stores

Claude Lewis, 82, distinguished Philly columnist and guiding light for African American journalists

Claude Lewis: Journalism Pioneer and NABJ Co-Founder Dies

Justice Department confirms Trump's wiretap lie

White people see black men as larger, more threatening than same-sized white men

Trump Sends Hate Group to Represent US at UN Women's Rights Conference

Fired U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Said to Have Been Investigating Trump Appointee Tom Price

United Nations Applauds Iran's "Exemplary" Leadership in Hosting Refugees

The Real Irish-American Story Not Taught in Schools

Leading Republicans reject Trump's Obama wiretap assertion

Prosecutors won’t charge de Blasio after fundraising investigation

Le Pen foes relish Dutch vote, but French election may be different

Irish Americans Called to Stand Against Trump and Racism

What Betsy DeVos Means When She Says ‘Public Schools’

With elimination of NEA and NEH, Trump's budget is worst-case scenario for arts groups

Trump’s dystopian budget is going nowhere

The 19 agencies that Trump’s budget would kill, explained

School shooting, letter bomb at IMF put France on alert

Heavily-armed student opens fire in French high school

Trump’s China Trademarks Violate the Constitution

Far-right Nationalism Slips and Falls in The Netherlands

Rep. Gutiérrez Speaks Out After Being Handcuffed for Demanding Answers on ICE Raids & Deportations

United Nations issues report saying Israel has established an 'apartheid regime'

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Nationwide

Dutch prime minister claims victory over anti-Muslim candidate Geert Wilders

Dutch elections: Wilders' far-right party beaten, exit polls show

US law mistreats mothers and pregnant women in the name of protecting children.

Donald Trump Has Lunch With a Saudi War Criminal While Yemenis are Starve

House Intelligence Chair Says He Doesn't Believe Trump Tower Was Wiretapped

"Ryancare" Dead on Arrival: Can We Please Now Try Single Payer?

What happens to the police who kill unarmed African-American

Tamir Rice Case: 911 Dispatcher Suspended for Eight Days

In a Repudiation of Trump, a Senior House Leader Rejects Wiretap Claim

A new video challenges the official story about what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson

Michael Brown's father says newly released video is changing perspectives

Ninety Percent of Minke Whales Killed in Norway Are Female and "Almost All" Pregnant

Noam Chomsky on the 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

500 million Yahoo accounts were hacked. The US just blamed it on 2 Russian spies.

Conservative website only media on Tillerson plane to Asia

Arkansas Rushes to Execute 8 Men Using Drug Linked to Painful, Botched Executions

The Army Turns to YouTube for Recruiting

Naval Exercises Add Trillions of Pieces of Plastic Debris to Oceans

From Lobbyists to Reality Show Stars, Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed

Over 350,000 Back Call for Lawmakers To Give Up Their Subsidized Healthcare

In challenge to Trump, 17 Republicans in Congress join fight against global warming

New York attorney general says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used 'Wayne Tracker' email at Exxon to discuss climate

France's scandal-hit Fillon put under formal fraud investigation

California joins lawsuit against Trump's travel ban

Trump’s War on the Truth Tellers

Vallejo police officer videoed beating man remains on duty

Iceland to end capital controls more than 8 years after banking crash

EPA Environmental Justice Official Resigns in Protest of Trump

Cambodia Outraged as US Demands Repayment of 'Blood-Stained' War Debt

Global White Supremacy: Hateful politician in the US supports hateful politician in The Netherlands.

Fired US Attorney Bharara was pursuing multiple investigations against Fox News

Israel slides further into right-wing nationalism

‘No reason to believe it’s true’: McCain calls on Trump to retract wiretap claim or provide proof

Texas Congressional Maps Are Struck Down for Discrimination

'We Exist, We Resist, We Rise': Thousands March for Native Nations

How to Forget, American-Style: George W. Bush and the Forever War

Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler Deschryver on the Predatory Mindset of President Trump

World Faces Largest Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945, U.N. Official Says

Death toll from Guatemala children's shelter fire rises to 39

Fillon's party apologizes for anti-Semitic attack on French rival Macron

Secretary of State Ducking Press Amid Reports of Being Sidelined

Preet Bharara Is Fired After Refusing to Step Down as U.S. Attorney

US Attorney in New York Fired After Refusing Trump's Abrupt Request to Resign

Ex-Clinton Labor secretary lists four grounds to 'impeach Trump'

Gay veterans will be allowed to march in South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade after all

Trump Abruptly Orders 46 Obama-Era Prosecutors to Resign

106 arrests sought after white-nationalist rally in Sacramento

Hamburg train attack: 2 suspects on the run after teargassing dozens of passengers, including child

Muhammad Ali’s son held up at D.C. airport after testifying about first detainment

Life in Gaza Is Shaped by the Electricity Crisis

Standing Rock tribe takes DAPL protest to Washington

Palestinian Hip-Hop Star Tamer Nafar Fights Racist Israeli Policies in New Film, "Junction 48"

Trump Supporters Call For Imprisoning Liberals at Phoenix Rally

Pollution Kills Millions Of Children Each Year, Says World Health Org

CNN host under fire for eating human brain in first episode of new show 'Believer'

Black Lives Matter on International Women's Day

Stephen Hawking calls for ‘world government’ to stop robot apocalypse

Huge Crowd Marches on White House to Protest Trump's Global Gag Rule

Centrist French presidential candidate wins more high-profile backing

Doctors, hospitals and insurers oppose Republican health plan

Mexico cancels sugar export permits to U.S. in trade dispute

Women in More Than 50 Countries Set to Strike Today on International Women's Day

Dutch Fear Russian Meddling, but Also U.S. Cash

'Here We Go': Hawaii Files First Lawsuit Against Muslim Ban 2.0

Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler Deschryver on the Predatory Mindset of President Trump

Hurray for the Riff Raff on Feminism, Gentrification, Gender Violence & Art in Era of Trump

Colin Kaepernick's Political Awakening Has Been a Gift to the US

WikiLeaks Publishes Massive Archive of CIA Hacking Tools

Ben Carson Refers to Slaves as ‘Immigrants’ in First Remarks to HUD Staff

Drugs are killing so many people in West Virginia that the state can’t keep up with the funerals

'Unhinged & Dangerous': The Old Trump is Back. In Fact, He Never Left

Ben Carson said what? Samuel L. Jackson, Ava DuVernay can't believe he just referred to slaves as 'immigrants'

U.S. judge rules against tribes seeking to stop Dakota pipeline

Trump's Muslim Ban 2.0

Macron builds party machine and momentum before French election

UK Zoo of 'Horror' loses licence to operate ... finally

With No Evidence, Trump Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower

France's Fillon under fire as party chiefs bring forward crisis meeting

Peugeot poised to buy GM's Opel, creating European car giant

'I've never seen such war' says 90-year-old rescued from Mosul

Exposé Shows Berta Cáceres Was At Top of Kill List by U.S.-Trained Assassins

Coretta Scott King always knew the truth about Jeff Sessions

Desecrated Cemeteries: Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Trump's America

Rep. Elijah Cummings slams Sessions’ recusal — and asks him to resign

Billionaire Wilbur Ross Confirmed Despite Questions over Ties to Russian Oligarchs Close to Putin

Companies back transgender rights in Supreme Court fight

Wall Street Journal Slams Trump Adviser in Scalding Editorial

Stephen Colbert Rips the Media's Mortifying New Reversal on Trump

U.S. authorities raid Caterpillar's Illinois facilities

Marine Le Pen loses EU parliament immunity over tweets

GOP Oversight of Trump: Worse than Watergate

Pence used private email while Indiana governor

Another Town in El Salvador Votes "No" to Mining

Dan Rather Says Trump-Russia Scandal Is About to Go off Like a Bomb

EU May Cancel Visa-Free Travel for American Citizens to Europe

Baltimore School Principals Rally Against Devastating Budget Cuts

Bernie Sanders Slams Trump for Ignoring Climate Change, Income Inequality & Voter Suppression

Jon Stewart on Donald Trump: "Nobody Says 'Believe Me' Unless They Are Lying"

Jon Stewart joins Stephen Colbert to mock the media’s ‘breakup’ with Trump

Kellyanne Conway gets free pass for breaking the law

To help refugees, stop arming terrorists – Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

Recalling Nazi-Era Policies, Trump to Create Office to Track Crimes Committed by Immigrants

Not My President: Muslim American Activist Linda Sarsour on Turning Down Invite to Trump Speech

UK Government defeated on Brexit bill