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Kenya inaugurates new Chinese-funded railway

Nursing Home Workers Win Wage Gains With Credible Strike Threat

Zaha Hadid: The woman who reshaped modern architecture

Cleveland policeman who fatally shot Tamir Rice is fired

Manuel Noriega, ex-military ruler of Panama, dies at 83

Trudeau invites pope to Canada for Church apology to indigenous peoples

Journalist Desmond Cole on How the Toronto Star Tried to Silence His Activism for Black Liberation

Police shootings of Native Americans spark a movement

One Hundred Eighth Graders Boycott Paul Ryan Photo Op

Angela Merkel says Europe has become unsure about the reliability of US

U.S. companies no longer know rules of game under Trump, Hasbro director says

Ten Years After the Crisis, What Is Happening to the World's Bees?

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, dies at 89

Dilma Rousseff on Her Ouster, Brazil's Political Crisis & Fighting Dictatorship (VIDEO)

Journalist Desmond Cole on How the Toronto Star Tried to Silence His Activism for Black Liberation

Glenn Greenwald: Ousting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Empowered Criminality & Corruption

Indigenous Alliance Launches Divestment Campaign Against US and Canadian Pipelines

New Study Finds "More Sweatshops Than Starbucks" in Chicago

Trump's HUD Secretary Says Poverty Mostly a "State of Mind"

San Francisco takes step toward housing all homeless veterans

Moody's downgrades China, warns of fading financial strength as debt mounts

US-led strikes kill 35 civilians in east Syria

Why are so many young Greeks turning to farming?

What If All Victims of War Received the Media Attention of Manchester Victims? (VIDEO)

Manchester Bombing is Part of Vicious Cycle, Likely Blowback from Ongoing War on Terror (VIDEO)

Africa is not poor, we are stealing its wealth

War in Afghanistan Is Killing Children in Record Numbers in 2017

The Trump Administration's Budget Is a Highway to Privatization

Texas Rep. Al Green Faces Threats of Lynching & Murder After Calling for Trump's Impeachment (VIDEO)

Charter Schools Are a Scam in Segregated Neighborhoods

With Confederate Statues Removed in New Orleans, Will School Names & Street Signs Follow? (VIDEO)

A Human Rights Agenda for President Macron

Suspected Manchester Bomber Was 22-Year-Old Native of City

Manchester suicide bomber moved from gangs to radical Islam

Indonesian police detain 141 men over 'gay sex party'

Michelle Alexander: We Must Respond Forcefully & Challenge Jeff Sessions's New War on Drugs (VIDEO)

Richard Oakes: an activist for Native American rights

Israel Siphoning Natural Gas from Gaza Says Dutch Report

Public Health Experts Demand WHO Take on Factory Farms

Notre Dame Students Stage Walkout During VP Pence's Commencement Address

Mario Borghezio ordered to pay Cecile Kyenge for racism

Sister of rape victim Theo: 'Police consider us rats'

Billionaires Lay Siege to State Governments

Hamas decries Trump's terror allegation

Chelsea Manning Is Free–but Whistleblowers Still Face Prison

Michel Temer accused of obstruction of justice

Sweden shuts down Julian Assange rape investigation

As Trump Pushes Massive Saudi Weapons Deal, Yemenis Suffer from Cholera, War, and Famine

Trump strikes arms deal with Saudis worth $350bn, $110bn to take effect immediately

‘Get your dirty hands out of Venezuela’ – Maduro to Trump

Trump Told Russians "Nut Job" Comey Was Fired to Ease Pressure: Report

Fox's bill for Roger Ailes settlements is now $45 million

World's fastest electric road car: 'The acceleration is completely bonkers'

SF takes step toward housing all homeless veterans

Could Narrow Scope of New Special Counsel Miss Wider Corruption in Trump White House?

Saying "No to Silence": Hear Murdered Mexican Journalist Javier Valdez in His Own Words (VIDEO)

Brazil's beleaguered President Temer refuses to resign

The Hidden Bombshell in the Comey-Trump Story

Outrage Abounds as 'Unconscionable' Wisconsin Sheriff Takes DHS Job

Roger Ailes, who built Fox News into a powerhouse, dies at 77

Chris Cornell, Powerhouse Voice Of Soundgarden And Audioslave, Dies At 52

Israel razes Palestinian village for 113th time

Car slams into Times Square pedestrians, killing one, injuring others

SF takes step toward housing all homeless veterans

Controversial Milwaukee County sheriff says taking U.S. Homeland Security post

Activists Sue to Block Plans to Bury 3.6 Million Pounds of Nuclear Waste Near California Beach (VIDEO)

Dakota Pipeline Builder Under Fire for Ohio Spill: 8 Violations in 7 Weeks

Washington State AG Fights Admin on Muslim Ban, Drilling, Drug War & More (VIDEO)

Emmanuel Macron Hires Center-Right Mayor As His New Prime Minister

Macron and Merkel Meet, Pledging to Save European Unity

Trump 'Needs a Good War' and Pence is Waiting in the Wings to Lead It

Scientists just discovered yet another coral reef that has been devastated by global warming

Trying to Explain the Disdain for Poor Americans

Why Did the FBI Leak the Comey Memo?

Learjet crashes on approach to New Jersey airport, killing two pilots

Senate GOP leader plays down latest Trump controversy

Trump administration vastly expands global anti-abortion policy

North Carolina's Voter ID Law Meets 'Its Much-Deserved Demise'

Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease

Sorry, Folks, But Donald Trump Is Everything We Deserve

Jeff Sessions Is Going to Fill Those Prisons One Way or Another

EMMANUEL MACRON IS SWORN IN AS FRENCH PRESIDENT

Macron’s Victory Explodes France’s Political Landscape

Video: Footage shows incident with 8-year-old two days before suicide

Morning Mix School releases video of boy who police say was bullied and who later killed himself

Vandals smash 70 Catholic & Jewish headstones in Rome’s landmark cemetery

‘Enough is enough’: Norway’s trade unions vote to boycott Israel over Palestine

Workers Fear Radiation Exposure After Nuclear Waste Storage Tunnels Collapse in Washington

Glenn Greenwald Unveils New Project to Build Animal Shelter in Brazil Staffed by Homeless People

'Major disruption' as UK hospitals hit by cyber attack

The People vs. The Student Loan Industry

The True Definition of Unapologetic

AG Sessions Orders 'Vicious Cycle of Incarceration'

Macron is good for Europe and Africa

In blow to Trump, GE backs NAFTA and plans growth in Mexico

Macron rejects former PM Valls as candidate

Macron selects 428 parliamentary candidates and exactly half are women

Mormon church cuts ties with Boy Scout programs in U.S., Canada

Fighting to save the last of Canada's giant trees

South Korea's first black model

Census Director Resigns Amid Budget Crunch That Could Harm Communities of Color

Is America dying or is it being born again?

France's Macron names half of parliamentary candidates from civil society

Democrats Are Out of Step with Their Base on Israel-Palestine

Fatima Hjeiji: Seventh child killed by Israel in 2017

'Nazi-posters' at Stellenbosch University spark outrage

Betsy DeVos’ Commencement Speech at a Historically Black College Was Drowned Out by Booing

DeVos booed speaking at historically black university

Brazil ex-president Lula to appear in court in graft case

Turkey warns U.S. of blowback from decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria

Penn State University Wages Union-Busting Campaign Against Its Own Graduate Students

Seattle mayor abandons re-election bid after sexual abuse allegations

Fourth man accuses Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of paying him for sex

Third Mysterious Death of a Black Ferguson Activist

Funding Housing for Homeless Americans With Mental Illness Is a Financial Gain for All

Palestinian flag to fly above Dublin’s City Hall

Dublin City Council to fly Palestinian flag above City Hall for a month as "gesture of solidarity"

Greece Passes New Austerity for New Loans

After FCC Bent Rules, Right-Wing Sinclair Network to Grow Even Bigger

Colin Kaepernick supporters no match for reality of NFL, inside and out

"Corruption, Plain and Simple": Kushner Visa Scandal Snowballs

Massachusetts judge overturns ex-NFL star Hernandez's murder conviction

F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump

Tunnel collapses at Washington nuclear waste plant; no radiation released

Trump's Plantations: Black Colleges at the Mercy of White Politicians

White House Visitors

Arkansas Judge Faces Impeachment for Protesting Against the Death Penalty (VIDEO)

Blacks arrested 5 times more than whites in Madison County, lawsuit says

Mississippi African Americans besieged by illegal searches, ACLU lawsuit says

Obama Shows Why Wall Street Has Two Parties And We Have None

Is Venezuela's Withdrawal from the OAS Justified?

'Welcome our dear girls', Nigeria's Buhari tells freed Chibok girls

Chimps Could Soon Win Legal Personhood

Macron wins French presidency, to sighs of relief in Europe

Netanyahu tosses Hamas policy paper on Israel into waste bin

Barack Obama proves himself to be Black Mascot of Wall Street

Emmanuel Macron Declared Next French President In Early Vote Counts

Emmanuel Macron wins presidency and vows to restore France's confidence

Rise of the New Black Radical with Adam Jackson

Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Charged With Murder

Kushner family pushes $500,000 ‘investor visa’ to wealthy Chinese

'You Betrayed Us' Billboards Targeting Anti-Privacy Lawmakers

Jean Stein, Who Chronicled Wealth, Fame and Influence, Dies at 83

Spooked by Trump, Migrants Return to Mexico

French candidate Macron claims massive hack as emails leaked

'New York Hates You!': Protests Swell as Trump Makes First Hometown Visit

NAACP Renews Demands for Police Reform After Police Shooting of Black Teen Jordan Edwards in Dallas (VIDEO)

'Made in China' C919 passenger jet takes maiden flight

Hamas accepts Palestinian state with 1967 borders

Macron cements bid for French presidency after bitter TV debate

U.S. Incoherence, THAAD Missile System Disrupt the Korean Peninsula

North Carolina Hog Farms Spray Manure Around Black Communities; Residents Fight Back (VIDEO)

Fla. Lawmakers Apologize to Family of "Groveland Four," Black Men Falsely Accused of Rape in 1949 (VIDEO)

Elderly protester gets felony conviction for laughing at Trump administration

An unsigned Colin Kaepernick is a bad sign for NFL

Demonizing Black Victims Killed by Police

Puerto Rico ﬁles for bankruptcy

Ex-Officer Who Shot Walter Scott Pleads Guilty in Charleston

Officers Won’t Be Charged in Black Man’s Shooting Death in Louisiana

Baton Rouge Officers Won't Face Federal Charges In Killing Of Alton Sterling

UNESCO passes Jerusalem resolution critical of Israel

70 Million Africans In Danger of Famine

Report Finds One Quarter of Country Drinks Substandard Water

Afghanistan: The Longest U.S. War is Deadlier Than Ever

How Israel's violent birth destroyed Palestine

Colin Kaepernick hands out free suits outside parole office

Colin Kaepernick Rises Above The Hate To Help Those In Need

Texas police shoot dead 15-year-old African American

15-Year-Old Jordan Edwards, Shot and Killed By Police In Dallas

Secretary of Commerce Calls Bombing of Syria 'After-Dinner Entertainment'

Feinstein Hosts Industry Fundraiser Days After Dissing Single Payer

May Day Marchers Around The World Celebrate Workers, Immigrants

Spring blizzard hits Kansas, Texas, Nebraska and Oklahoma

Brandon Marshall Says Colin Kaepernick Likely Being 'Blackballed' by NFL Teams

49ers Eric Reid speaks up for Colin Kaepernick, shares plan for national anthem