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Massive Methane Gas Leak in California 'Cannot Be Overstated'

California Methane Gas Leak is Worst U.S. Environmental Disaster Since BP Oil Spill

"Groundbreaking" Exposé Shows Pentagon Thwarting Obama's Bid to Transfer Guantánamo Prisoners

Alarm Spreads in Brazil Over a Virus and a Surge in Malformed Infants

Ethan Couch, ‘Affluenza’ Teenager, Granted Delay in Deportation

Bill Cosby posts $1-million bail after being charged with sexual assault

Nation mourns Tamir Rice case, called a "charade" by Mom of murdered son

Five Big Banks Plead Guilty to Rigging Currency Markets and No One Goes to Jail

From Drone Technician to Whistleblower

Restorative Justice Gives Our Children Dignity in US Schools

Syrian journalist & filmmaker who exposed ISIS Aleppo atrocities assassinated in Turkey

More Than 100,000 Flee Devastating Floods in South America

The Year That Black Lives Mattered

Okinawa Sues Tokyo in Effort to Block US Base

California wildfire burns 1,200 acres, closes 101 highway

Angry Libyans lash out at Obama’s independence congratulations

Military Injustice: As Bowe Bergdahl Court-Martialed, Navy SEALs who Torture and Kill, Walk Free

Clarence Moses-EL on Ending His 28-Year Prison Nightmare

Southern U.S. states clean up after storms kill at least 10

In Brazil, Virus-Linked Birth Defect Explodes

Sanders Blasts US Mass Incarceration as 'International Embarrassment'

NYC grants ANYONE right to use single-sex facility 'consistent with gender identity or expression'

Sandra Bland's Family Speaks Out After Grand Fails Accountability

Exposing BlackRock: Who's Afraid of Laurence Fink?

Federal ban on medical marijuana effectively ends in 2016

Bernie Sanders says "CEOs May Like Hillary -- They Ain't Going to Like Me"

Activists Manually Halt Flow of Tar Sands Oil Through Canadian Pipeline

As Public Funding of Universities Dwindles, Faculty Are Unionizing

1 dead, 37 injured as woman plows into crowd near Las Vegas’ Paris Hotel, ‘motive unknown’

Many missing after massive landslide in China that crashed multiple buildings

DNC penalizes Sanders campaign for improper access of Clinton voter data

Tyson Foods' Secret Recipe for Carving Up Workers' Comp

Becoming Instantly Disposable in the United States

New Orleans City Council Votes to Remove Confederate Monuments

With Latest Budget Deal, More Failure By Design

San Francisco Becomes a City for the Rich

Flint, Michigan: City Declares Water Emergency

Justice for Freddie Gray Uncertain as Baltimore Jury Fails to Reach Verdict

Hung jury in first Freddie Gray case

Like Copenhagen Talks, Paris Climate Negotiations Were Mostly Smoke and Mirrors

Police Killing People of Color Is Not New; The Revealing Videos Are

All Los Angeles schools closed over terror threat

Over 10,000 lone children apprehended crossing Mexico-US border in past 2 months

After Paris: The Climate Talks End and the Movement Continues

50,000 Hit Streets of Poland to Rally Against 'Creeping Coup d’Etat'

Native Americans Warn Native Hawaiians of the Dangers of Federal Recognition

Obama Accused of Giving Poor Nations a "Poison Chalice" by Skirting U.S. Climate Responsibility

Muhammad Ali takes swing at Trump, calls ISIS ‘misguided murderers’

Israel Plays Major Role in Exporting ISIS Oil

Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans

Rupert Murdoch's Corporate Dismemberment​ of Media and Journalism

Trump and the GOP: This Is Who They Are

A Black Woman's Response to Marginalization at Princeton

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologizes for Laquan McDonald police shooting, demands changes

Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn Died at 69

Monsanto-hired panel disputes WHO report on ‘carcinogenic’ herbicide

Airstrikes Against Syria are a Trap, Warns Former ISIS Hostage Nicolas Hénin

Former ISIS Hostage Nicolas Hénin: Welcoming Refugees is the Best Strategy Against ISIS

Fracking Expantion Threatening to Contaminate World's Third-Largest Aquifer

Man yells "You ain't no Muslim" at London Underground attacker (VIDEO)

Does the Israeli Legal System Provide Justice for Palestinians?

Chicago Cover-Up Deepens as 80 Minutes of Footage Confirmed Missing

The Genius and Success of the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott

Former President Jimmy Carter says cancer gone from brain

Finland Champions Universal Basic Income

African Women, Hit Hardest by Climate Change, Forge New Solutions Across the Continent

Activists Stage Paris Sit-In To Protest Role of Corporate Polluters in Climate Talks

U.S. Accused of Shifting Responsibility of Climate Crisis Despite Role as Largest Historic Polluter

Marine Le Pen’s National Front leads in first round of French regional elections

British strikes in Syria illegal, play into terrorists' hands – Assad

Why Coal Mining Outlaw Don Blankenship's Conviction Matters

UK Begins Bombing Syria After Pro-War Vote; Cameron Accuses Corbyn of Being “Terrorist Sympathizer”

In Spite of Peackeeping Efforts, UK Begins Bombing of Syria

Gulf oil spill: Manslaughter charges dropped against BP Deepwater Horizon supervisors

Marshall Islands Poet to the U.N. Climate Summit: “Tell Them We Are Nothing Without Our Islands”

Russia says Turkey’s Erdogan & family involved in illegal ISIS oil trade

San Bernardino Gunmen Kill at Least 14, Wound 17

Climate Crusader Bill McKibben Condemns Jailing of Ousted Maldives President, A Hero of Climate Movement

America's 20 Richest Own More Than Bottom Half

George W. Bush Created a "Sea of Blood"