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J. Edgar Hoover's Nazi Shelter: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men

Nobel Laureate Malala Donates $50,000 to Gaza

Beware the Fear Industrial Complex

A National Disgrace: Number of Homeless Students Reaches Record Levels

Newly developed fiberoptic cable 2,500X faster than fastest internet

Sweden officially recognizes Palestine as autonomous country

European recognition of Palestine will save the two-state solution

Israeli soldier says ‘IDF don’t see Palestinian people as people, children as children’

Is Filming a Police Officer a "Domestic Threat"? Austin Activist on Trial for Videotaping an Arrest

40,000 Kenyans accuse Britain of abuse and torture in second Mau Mau law suit

The San Francisco Giants just won the World Series again

NYC students brutally beat two African boys, calling them ‘Ebola’

BP Spill Left Oil Ring Size of Rhode Island on Ocean Floor, Scientists Find

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks Out from Prison on Pennsylvania’s New Law Censoring Convicts’ Speech

Hindus Celebrate Festival of Lights (Photo Essay)

UN Issues Statement on Human Rights Violations in Detroit

Putin criticizes US and Europe for destabilizing world

Student opens fire at Washington state high school, now dead: police

Citizenfour: Inside Story of NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Captured in New Film by Laura Poitras

Animals Die, Woman Cries, but We Are Unmoved

At the United Nations, a speech by Noam Chomsky blasts US imperialism and Israeli hypocrisy

‘Mumia Bill’ signed in Pennsylvania lets prisoners be sued over speech

Washington Post Repeat: A 'Worthless and Whiny' Attack on a Genuine Journalistic Hero, Gary Webb

Blackwater Founder Remains Rich and Free While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges

Two Confirmed Dead In Shooting Near Canadian Parliament

Chevron Greases Local Election With Gusher of Cash

In Ferguson, the Grand Jury Is Out and the Fix Is in

In Memory of Oscar de la Renta, dead at 82

Diane Von Furstenberg Remembers Oscar de la Renta, ‘Renaissance Man’

Canadian Parliament on lockdown after shots fired at National War Memorial

U.S. jury convicts ex-Blackwater guards in 2007 Baghdad killings

Former U.N. Special Rapporteur Richard Falk on the Legitimacy of Hope in the Palestinian Struggle

Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks Out from Jail on New Pennsylvania Law Silencing Prisoners

Syngenta faces mounting lawsuits over genetically-modified seeds

Russian & American Filmmakers with Disabilities Document Shared Struggles

The Shell Game of Contingent Employment

How Germany managed to abolish university tuition fees

'Major' Oil Spill Strikes Louisiana, Threatens Waterways

UK Lawmakers Vote to Recognize Statehood for Palestine

Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Andrew Jackson Were Proponents of Native American Genocide

Senator Bernie Sanders says US is failing as a democracy

Pollution Inequality and Income Inequality

In 'Victory for Anti-Imperialists,' Evo Morales Wins Third Term

Nowhere to Go but Jail? Criminalizing Homelessness

In Historic Police Brutality Case, Family of Homeless Denver Pastor Killed in Custody Awarded $4.6M

Abortion as a Social Good: Author Katha Pollitt Pens New Vision for Pro-Choice Movement

The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex

The Guantanamo Bay Prison Murders

Who Benefits from Billions Pledged for Gaza Reconstruction?

James Risen Prepared to "Pay Any Price" to Report on War on Terror Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers

Pesticide Use by Farmers Linked to High Rates of Depression, Suicides

Actor Jesse Williams Joins Ferguson October: This is a Basic Desire Not to Be Killed with Impunity

CORE SECRETS: NSA SABOTEURS IN CHINA AND GERMANY

Journalist Gary Webb Gets the Last Word in "Kill the Messenger"

“It breaks my heart”: How a SWAT team upended my baby’s life — and got away with it

Seattle Marks Indigenous Peoples’ Day Amid Calls to End Federal Holiday Celebrating Columbus

17 arrested in St. Louis as sit-in against police brutality proclaimed ‘unlawful’

‘Hostile to privacy’: Snowden urges internet users to get rid of Dropbox

Ferguson October: Thousands March in St. Louis for Police Reform & Arrest of Officer Darren Wilson

Asset seizures fuel police spending

Christopher Columbus and the US Holocaust: Nightmare that Lives On

Pepsi and Coke take hammering in Mexico as junk food tax starts to bite

Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs in Hospice

Same Sex marriage ban overturned in North Carolina

"Kill the Messenger" Resurrects Gary Webb, Journalist Maligned for Exposing CIA Ties to Crack Trade

Detroit Faces "Humanitarian Crisis" as City Shuts Off Water Access for Thousands of Residents

Michael Brown Redux: Police Officer Fatally Shoots Black Teen in Saint Louis, Missouri

Democrats abandon unpopular Obama on eve of midterm elections

Same-sex marriage legal in more than half the states

Lego Ends Shell Contract After Greenpeace 'Save the Arctic' Campaign

New Report Shows Voter ID Laws Are 'Intended to Discourage Voting'

California aquifers contaminated with billions of gallons of fracking wastewater

Glasgow Becomes First European University to Divest From Fossil Fuels

"Have F---ing Beliefs, Not Teams": Citizen Radio's Hosts Talk #NEWSFAIL

AT&T to Pay $105 Million for Bogus Cell Phone Fees

Migrant Women, Children Allege Harsh Conditions, Sexual Assault at For-Profit Texas Immigration Jail

Marriott's Shameful Hotel Tipping Scam

Fall of Kobani Reveals Failure of U.S. Bombing Campaign

Heavy Metal Songs: Contaminated Songbirds Sing the Wrong Tunes

Another Fiery Derailment Puts Spotlight on Hazardous Train Shipments

ISIS and America’s Soundtrack of Hysteria

How U.S. Healthcare Fails to Handle the End of Life

Federal judge rules Ferguson police violated citizens' rights

Fear Incorporated: Terrorism as Thorazine

After 13 Years, 'Time to End Our Endless War in Afghanistan'

Jean-Claude Duvalier, ex-Haitian leader known as Baby Doc, dies at 63

Utah clerks issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples

Black Prophetic Fire: Cornel West on the Revolutionary Legacy of Leading African-American Voices

Housing Rights Group Says HUD Program Helps Wall Street, Hurts Homeowners

Salmon people pray for sacred fish to return to historic home

Iraq Veterans Against the War: Decade-Old Group Grapples with New War, PTSD Epidemic, VA Failures

JP Morgan Says 76 Million Households Affected By Data Breach

Half the World’s Animal Population Vanished Since 1970

Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting

Sweden to recognize Palestine as a State

Russia completes ratification of Eurasian Economic Union, as Putin signs law

Philadelphia becomes largest US city to decriminalize marijuana

Global Inequality Reaches Levels Not Seen in Nearly 200 Years

The FBI and the Shattering of Students for a Democratic Society

Police departments nationwide retalate against "Cop Watch" organizations

Empty Nests of the North: "Massive Chick Deaths" in Seabird Colonies

The Radicalization of Phil Donahue

Acute Economic Inequality Underlies "Occupy Central" Protests in Hong Kong

What 35,000 Walruses Forced to the Beach Tell Us About Global Warming

Mississippi County Sued for Indefinitely Holding Prisoners Without Charge or Access to Lawyer

Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial