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October 31, 2018
Ntozake Shange, Who Wrote ‘For Colored Girls,’ Is Dead at 70
October 31, 2018
Ntozake Shange, American Playwright and Freedom Fighter, Dies at 70
October 31, 2018
Rare 5,655 carat Emerald discovered in Zambia
October 31, 2018
Black, Latino, and Young Voters Go to Polls in Record Numbers
October 31, 2018
After third Taser death, California police officials reconsider 'less-lethal' weapon
October 31, 2018
Demonstrators Block Trump During March for Love and Solidarity in Pittsburgh
October 31, 2018
Will Paulette Jordan be the first Native American governor in the US?
October 31, 2018
Marriott Workers Stay Tough on the Picket Lines
October 31, 2018
Number of Georgia Voters Purged by Brian Kemp Continues to Climb
October 31, 2018
Kentucky man accused of shooting two black store patrons indicted for murder
October 31, 2018
Why Israel does not mind Trump's anti-Semitic supporters
October 31, 2018
As Bolsonaro Threatens to Criminalize Protests, a New Resistance Movement Is Emerging in Brazil (VIDEO)
October 31, 2018
Bolsonaro, 'gender ideology' and hegemonic masculinity in Brazil
October 30, 2018
Germany pledges new investment fund to develop new markets in Africa
October 30, 2018
Bolsonaro Represents the Starkest Expression of Politics of Hatred in Brazil
October 30, 2018
Students call for NYU to cancel Milo Yiannopoulos lecture
October 30, 2018
Rabbi Michael Lerner on Solidarity After the Massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh
October 30, 2018
We Must Not Be Bystanders When Darkness Descends
October 30, 2018
Brazil Has Elected “Most Extremist Leader in the Democratic World” (VIDEO)
October 30, 2018
Historic Kenya Airways direct flight to U.S. arrives in New York
October 30, 2018
Rare Genetic Sequences Illuminate Early Humans' History in Africa
October 29, 2018
Indonesia: 'No survivors' after Lion Air flight crashes into sea
October 29, 2018
Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says
October 29, 2018
Jimmy Carter says something is very wrong with Georgia governor's electionF
October 29, 2018
Ninth child dies in deadly viral outbreak in New Jersey
October 29, 2018
Package addressed to Atlanta CNN Center similar to others mailed last week
October 29, 2018
There are 18 cases of white-supremacist killings since Trump was inaugurated
October 29, 2018
Trump sends 5,200 troops to Mexico border as caravan advances
October 29, 2018
Andrew Gillum thrashes Trump for calling him a ‘thief’: ‘He’s howling because he’s weak’
October 29, 2018
Angela Merkel exit to polarise Germany and Europe
October 29, 2018
Conservative Matt Drudge unloads on Fox News for laughing about the massacre of Jews
October 29, 2018
Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum
October 29, 2018
Gaza's drinking water spurs blue baby syndrome, serious illnesses
October 29, 2018
Trump & GOP Have Blood on Their Hands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting & Hateful Violence (VIDEO)
October 29, 2018
Haitians Rise Up Against Corruption, Austerity
October 29, 2018
How US policy in Honduras set the stage for today’s migration
October 29, 2018
Lewis Hamilton wins fifth F1 title
October 28, 2018
How much power does Saudi Arabia wield over the global economy?
October 28, 2018
Did Trump destroy the conservative movement? No — he cashed in on its darkest tendencies
October 28, 2018
4 Members of Violent White Supremacist Group Face Riot Charges
October 28, 2018
Brazil elections: Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro wins presidency
October 28, 2018
Young black Portuguese men take police brutality case to court
October 28, 2018
Right Wing Nationalist Terror Stalks the Nation says Henry Giroux
October 28, 2018
Gab Social Media Site Connected to Synagogue Shooter Loses Hosting, Funding
October 28, 2018
Fox News host nails Georgia Secretary of State over sketchy voter purge: ‘Suppression is alive and well’
October 28, 2018
Mikhail Gorbachev: A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun
October 28, 2018
Ireland re-elects president, set to dump blasphemy law
October 28, 2018
Merkel's party suffers losses in Hesse elections as right-wing AfD enters parliament
October 28, 2018
A Tragedy in Three Parts: Corporations, Coups, and Crazies
October 28, 2018
Is Donald Trump Responsible for Violence? Yes.
October 28, 2018
Last survivor of WWII raid on Rome’s Jewish Ghetto dies
October 28, 2018
Reports of Voter Intimidation at Polling Places in Texas
October 27, 2018
LeBron James dons Beto O'Rourke hat to game in San Antonio
October 27, 2018
Hundreds of thousands march for marriage equality in Taiwan
October 27, 2018
'While the Rest of the World Burned,' Billionaires Made More Money in 2017 Than Any Other Year in History
October 27, 2018
The Trump administration’s withdrawal of California gillnet protections for whales, turtles ruled illegal
October 27, 2018
11 killed, several wounded, in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
October 27, 2018
Ben Jealous Wants Maryland to Move Forward in the Age of Trump
October 27, 2018
Black journalist banned from Trump’s Young Black Leadership Summit
October 27, 2018
Last Rites for the Village Voice, a Bohemian Who Stayed On Too Long
October 27, 2018
Baltimore's new Divine mural defies conventions — and the law
October 26, 2018
Pipe Bombs Sent to Trump Critics, Right Wing Nationalist Terror Stalks the Nation
October 26, 2018
Critics blast Kemp for posing for photo with anti-Muslim extremist
October 26, 2018
'Whites don't shoot whites': 2 black people shot dead in Kentucky
October 26, 2018
Is Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE
October 26, 2018
Bombing suspect’s van blanketed in pro-Trump bumper stickers
October 26, 2018
Trump Admin Opens Up Alaska for Drilling, Threatening Already At-Risk Arctic Biodiversity (VIDEO)
October 26, 2018
Live From The Sunken Place: Trump Attends MAGA-Cap-Wearing Young Black Leadership Summit
October 26, 2018
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Megyn Kelly, Blackface and NBC’s "Hate Crime-Adjacent" Problem
October 26, 2018
How Andrew Gillum turned the state of Florida into a beachhead for the progressive movement
October 26, 2018
Same-sex penguin couple become parents
October 26, 2018
Cory Booker latest Democrat to be targeted by explosive device through the mail
October 26, 2018
Suspicious package sent to Democratic Senator Harris
October 25, 2018
More than 200 retired journalists condemn president’s ‘un-American’ attacks on press
October 25, 2018
Israeli warplanes carry out air attacks in besieged Gaza
October 25, 2018
Florida governor restores voting rights to white Republican felons — after restricting black felons
October 25, 2018
Ethiopia Appoints Its First Female President
October 25, 2018
Former Fed Chair Paul Vlocker Warns of Failed Government
October 25, 2018
Ex-Texas firefighter gets a year in prison for leaving nooses at black family’s home
October 25, 2018
Watch Newt Gingrich blame bomb recipients for bringing it on themselves
October 25, 2018
Former Fed Chair Paul Volcker Warns About US Becoming a Plutocracy
October 25, 2018
NATO launches its largest war games since end of Cold War
October 25, 2018
Republicans Will Cut Your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Benefits
October 25, 2018
Judge Rules Georgia Must Stop Tossing Out Absentee Ballots
October 25, 2018
Trump Blames Media for Inciting “Anger” After Bombs Sent to CNN & High-Profile Democrats (VIDEO)
October 25, 2018
European Parliament votes for ban on single-use plastic
October 25, 2018
'Suspicious package' seized from Robert De Niro-linked building
October 25, 2018
Senator refers Kavanaugh accuser, Avenatti for criminal probe
October 25, 2018
New York sues Exxon for misleading investors on climate change risk
October 24, 2018
‘Apology not accepted’: Internet rains hell on Megyn Kelly’s ‘crocodile tears’ over blackface blowback
October 24, 2018
Pope Francis says populism leads to Hitler
October 24, 2018
NYC mayor Bill de Blasio says mail bombs were ‘an effort to terrorize’ Americans and the free press
October 24, 2018
A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
October 24, 2018
U.S. white nationalist leader, three others charged with inciting riots
October 24, 2018
Georgia votes for Democrat Stacey Abrams are being changed to Republican Brian Kemp
October 24, 2018
'The most famous black man in South Korea'
October 24, 2018
Inside Nikki Haley’s Shocking Speech to Secretive Far-Right Group
October 24, 2018
Americans' anger may help Democrats in Nov. 6 vote: Reuters/Ipsos poll
October 24, 2018
$1.5bn Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in South Carolina
October 24, 2018
Trump picks former Monsanto executive to lead U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
October 24, 2018
Under pressure over Khashoggi killing, MBS praises Qatar economy
October 24, 2018
Retrial to begin for US border agent who shot teen across border
October 24, 2018
Israel Forced to Delay Illegal Demolition of Palestinian Village Amid Growing International Pressure
October 24, 2018
Former Monsanto Executive Picked by Trump to Lead Wildlife Agency
October 24, 2018
Day After Bomb Found at Soros Home, 'Potential Explosive Devices' Sent to Clinton, Obama, and CNN
October 24, 2018
Stacey Abrams Slams Brian Kemp on Suppressing Vote as He Worries Too Many Georgians Will Vote (VIDEO)
October 24, 2018
Three Women Face Felony Charges For Saving Thrown Away Baby Cow
October 24, 2018
Greg Palast Sues Georgia’s Brian Kemp for Purging 340,000 from Voter Rolls Ahead of Election (VIDEO)
October 23, 2018
Robert Reich: Democrats Should Go Big and Bold
October 23, 2018
GOP school board member busted for Facebook plot to accuse the 2020 Dem presidential nominee of sexual assault
October 23, 2018
Peru's natives say Amazon Waterway Project threatens food sources
October 23, 2018
U.S. appeals court revives Nestle child slavery lawsuit
October 23, 2018
In Leaked Audio, Brian Kemp Expresses Concern Over [Blacks] Exercising Their Right to Vote
October 23, 2018
Megyn Kelly Can’t Understand What’s So Offensive About Blackface: ‘What Is Racist?’
October 23, 2018
In Texas, Trump speech takes far-right turn: 'I'm a nationalist.'
October 23, 2018
You Have Nothing to Apologize For! The Defense of White Male Privilege
October 23, 2018
What Jamal Khashoggi's murder tells us about the West's 'friendly' autocrats
October 23, 2018
Second migrant caravan in Guatemala heads toward Mexico
October 23, 2018
The U.S. Helped Destabilize Honduras. Now Honduran Migrants Are Fleeing Political & Economic Crisis (VIDEO)
October 23, 2018
How the man behind Khashoggi murder ran the killing via Skype
October 23, 2018
Tesla critic Citron makes U-turn ahead of results
October 23, 2018
Cheers, claps as MBS shows up at 'Davos in the desert' event
October 23, 2018
The West Enabled Khashoggi's Demise - Not To Mention All the Other Saudi Crimes
October 23, 2018
Irish Women Demand Equal Pay
October 22, 2018
Microplastics now found in our poop
October 22, 2018
“Reminiscent of South Africa’s Grand Apartheid”: Israeli Human Rights Group Slams Israel at U.N. (VIDEO)
October 22, 2018
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the State of the U.S. Empire
October 22, 2018
King says Jordan to reclaim land held by Israel under 1994 deal
October 22, 2018
Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination
October 22, 2018
Germany halts arms deals with Saudi Arabia, encourages allies to do the same
October 21, 2018
The history of African slavery in Iran
October 21, 2018
Foreigners sell net $1.1 billion of Saudi stocks as journalist disappearance rattles investors
October 21, 2018
State Supreme Courts Thwart GOP Politicians’ Court-Packing Plans
October 21, 2018
US Air Force Admits F-35 Will Harm Health and Learning of Vermont Children
October 21, 2018
Saying goodbye to Paul Allen and people too big to fit into headlines
October 21, 2018
Evangelist scalds fellow pastors for abandoning their ‘moral core’ to support Trump
October 21, 2018
Hundreds of migrants storm Spanish enclave in North Africa, one dies
October 21, 2018
Taiwan train crash kills 18 in deadliest rail tragedy in decades
October 21, 2018
Khashoggi’s Murder and Saudi War Crimes in Yemen Were Facilitated by US
October 21, 2018
Is it the end of cheap pad thai in Bangkok?
October 20, 2018
Inside the Arab heart of Mexico City
October 20, 2018
Media investigation exposes scale of years-long European tax scam
October 19, 2018
Gaza’s Great March of Return: Six months on, we are still struggling against Israeli oppression
October 19, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi called for freedom of expression in final column
October 18, 2018
Russia liquidates nearly all its holdings of US debt
October 18, 2018
Technology Access Gap Leaves Millions of Students Struggling to Keep Up
October 18, 2018
Longtime Republican flees the GOP because of Republican party pettiness
October 18, 2018
Khashoggi Dismembered With Bone Saw for 7 Minutes While Alive
October 18, 2018
Sudan ex-president Abdulrahman Suwar al-Dahab dies aged 83
October 18, 2018
Illinois Prisons Sued for Unconstitutional Ban on LGBTQ Literature
October 18, 2018
‘We Will Kill You’: Video Shows Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes Calling for Violence From Trump Supporters
October 18, 2018
4 Khashoggi Murder Suspects Are Linked to Saudi Crown Prince – Who Is Jared Kushner's Friend
October 18, 2018
New York Times puts happy face on violent "Proud Boy" racist Gavin McInnes
October 18, 2018
Georgia Secretary of State busted pushing racist voting ID video
October 18, 2018
The 'peaceful' refugee camp with yoga classes and lavender bushes
October 18, 2018
Native American Women Are Running for Office in Record Numbers (VIDEO)
October 18, 2018
US student Lara Alqasem claims victory in Israel boycott case
October 17, 2018
Student gunman kills 19 in Crimea
October 17, 2018
Canada legalizes cannabis - other countries likely to follow
October 17, 2018
LA Voters to Consider Creating Nation’s First Municipal Public Bank
October 17, 2018
Women hold 50 percent of new Ethiopian cabinet positions
October 17, 2018
Ttacher accused of sexually abusing sixth-grader found dead
October 17, 2018
The 200 Most Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments
October 17, 2018
Oscar Romero, Martyr for Salvadoran Revolution, Canonized by Pope Francis
October 17, 2018
Black Voters Matter blocked from taking seniors to vote
October 17, 2018
Thousands flee Honduras in US-bound caravan
October 17, 2018
Food Justice in Urban Agriculture
October 16, 2018
Republicans in North Dakota Are Attempting to Disenfranchise Thousands of Native Voters (VIDEO)
October 16, 2018
Voter Registration Is Inherently Racist
October 14, 2018
Anti-Terrorism Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists
October 14, 2018
Artechouse: Living at the corner of art and technology
October 14, 2018
Buddhist monk kills 9-yr old boy amid ongoing religious crisis in Thailand
October 14, 2018
Rwandan President Kagame says French President: Macron has brought ‘freshness’ to world politics
October 14, 2018
British cyclist shot dead by hunter in France
October 14, 2018
Hong Kong protesters reject plans for artificial islands
October 14, 2018
The world’s first 'fully recycled' road is made in France
October 14, 2018
Portland rightwing ‘Law and Order’ march erupts into ‘huge bloody brawl’
October 14, 2018
Banksy’s self-destructing “Girl With Balloon” is worth even more shredded
October 14, 2018
Are White Christians the Most Persecuted Group in America?
October 14, 2018
Berlin protests against far-right politics draw thousands
October 14, 2018
Will Pidgin Become an Official Language in Africa?
October 14, 2018
A new $60 billion agency is the clearest sign the US is worried about China’s Africa influence
October 14, 2018
Why the US needs better crime reporting statistics
October 14, 2018
The Business of Misery: Private Prisons in the US
October 14, 2018
Low Wages and No Benefits: Unemployment numbers conceal a grand deception
October 14, 2018
How the Wealthy Destroy Public Schools, One Gift at a Time
October 14, 2018
Jordan and Syria agree to reopen Naseeb border crossing
October 13, 2018
White Woman Calls Police On Black Man Babysitting White Kids
October 13, 2018
Independent Media Censored in Mass Facebook Purge
October 13, 2018
Living in the New Guilded Age
October 13, 2018
Brazil's first native woman voted to Congress
October 13, 2018
White Woman Calls Police on a Black Child Claiming Sexual Assault
October 13, 2018
China dumps US Treasury bonds amid trade war
October 13, 2018
Black Republican acknowledges GOP’s racism and voter suppression efforts
October 13, 2018
China is trying to erase the Uighurs and their culture
October 13, 2018
‘Proud Boys’ Kick, Punch People in New York Following Speech From Leader
October 13, 2018
A Far-Right Men’s Group Violently Beat Up Protesters And Weren’t Arrested.
October 13, 2018
America’s ‘crazy’ election system is the worst in the world
October 13, 2018
Portland demonstrators protest death of Patrick Kimmons, who was shot by police
October 12, 2018
What Is Behind The Conservative Win In Quebec?
October 12, 2018
Proceed with Caution: A tech boom in Pittsburgh brings hope and angst
October 12, 2018
Hackers stole details of 29 million users in Facebook breach
October 12, 2018
South Africa's apartheid-era FM Pik Botha dies
October 12, 2018
Dozens killed by massive landslide in Uganda, many more missing
October 12, 2018
Dozens killed by massive landslide in Uganda, many more missing
October 12, 2018
Schumer Rubber Stamps 15 More Right-Wing Judges for Trump
October 09, 2018
The Next Republic: The Rise Of A New Radical Majority
October 09, 2018
Qatari fuel enters Gaza to avert 'humanitarian disaster'
October 09, 2018
Walmart Canada considering cannabis products
October 09, 2018
Extreme stress in childhood is toxic to your DNA
October 09, 2018
Postal Workers Nationwide Stand Together Against Privatization Plan
October 08, 2018
In Germany and America, Invisible Walls
October 08, 2018
The weird world of one-sided objects
October 08, 2018
Columbus Day and Native Americans
October 08, 2018
Former Trump aide Hope Hicks joins Fox as communications chief
October 08, 2018
How the loss of Native American languages affects our understanding of the natural world
October 08, 2018
Romanian constitutional ban on same sex marriage fails
October 08, 2018
Saint Kavanaugh
October 08, 2018
Magnitude-5.9 earthquake hits Haiti, at least 11 dead
October 08, 2018
Turkey concludes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed by ‘murder’ team, sources say
October 08, 2018
GOP’s Brian Kemp Purged 1 in 10 Georgia Voters, says Greg Palast
October 08, 2018
Schoolgirls beaten in India for confronting sexual harassers
October 07, 2018
Fundraising campaign against Sen. Susan Collins nears $3.5 million
October 07, 2018
Turkish president calls Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance ‘very, very upsetting’
October 07, 2018
Interpol chief Meng Hongwei resigns after detention in China
October 07, 2018
Journalist Viktoria Marinova raped and murdered in Bulgaria
October 06, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh sworn in as US Supreme Court justice
October 06, 2018
Wall Street Journal ripped for ‘rape joke’ headline about Susan Collins ‘consenting’ to Kavanaugh
October 06, 2018
California wild horses to be captured, activists fear slaughter
October 06, 2018
Is India on its Way out of Poverty?
October 05, 2018
Will Brazil's next president be filled with rage and hate?
October 05, 2018
How Political Is This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize?
October 05, 2018
Will Chicago elect an African-American lesbian as its next mayor?
October 05, 2018
Nobel Peace Prize honors fight against sexual violence
October 05, 2018
Why I’m not surprised Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland isn’t a full professo
October 05, 2018
Senator Kamala Harris delivers blistering rebuke to GOP as Kavanaugh confirmation debate opens
October 05, 2018
Chicago jury convicts police officer Jason Van Dyke of murder in shooting death of Laquan McDonald
October 05, 2018
It's Your Post Office. Keep It.
October 04, 2018
Putin arrives in India for arms deal worth billions of dollars
October 04, 2018
New materials are powering the battery revolution
October 03, 2018
7 officers shot, 1 fatally, after attempt to serve warrant in South Carolina
October 03, 2018
Hate speech by Ohio mayor recorded by police chief's body cam
October 03, 2018
500+ Law Professors Agree: Kavanaugh's Testimony Was 'Disqualifying"
October 03, 2018
The 22 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
October 03, 2018
A Very Tarnished Court
October 03, 2018
Georgia cop who lied about being shot by black man sentenced to 15 years in prison
October 03, 2018
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
October 03, 2018
Human dignity is a concept with remarkably shallow historical roots
October 01, 2018
Michael Avenatti puts Kavanaugh accuser on TV after FBI ignores his requests
October 01, 2018
Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour dies at age 94
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