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Ntozake Shange, Who Wrote ‘For Colored Girls,’ Is Dead at 70

Ntozake Shange, American Playwright and Freedom Fighter, Dies at 70

Rare 5,655 carat Emerald discovered in Zambia

Black, Latino, and Young Voters Go to Polls in Record Numbers

After third Taser death, California police officials reconsider 'less-lethal' weapon

Demonstrators Block Trump During March for Love and Solidarity in Pittsburgh

Will Paulette Jordan be the first Native American governor in the US?

Marriott Workers Stay Tough on the Picket Lines

Number of Georgia Voters Purged by Brian Kemp Continues to Climb

Kentucky man accused of shooting two black store patrons indicted for murder

Why Israel does not mind Trump's anti-Semitic supporters

As Bolsonaro Threatens to Criminalize Protests, a New Resistance Movement Is Emerging in Brazil (VIDEO)

Bolsonaro, 'gender ideology' and hegemonic masculinity in Brazil

Germany pledges new investment fund to develop new markets in Africa

Bolsonaro Represents the Starkest Expression of Politics of Hatred in Brazil

Students call for NYU to cancel Milo Yiannopoulos lecture

Rabbi Michael Lerner on Solidarity After the Massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh

We Must Not Be Bystanders When Darkness Descends

Brazil Has Elected “Most Extremist Leader in the Democratic World” (VIDEO)

Historic Kenya Airways direct flight to U.S. arrives in New York

Rare Genetic Sequences Illuminate Early Humans' History in Africa

Indonesia: 'No survivors' after Lion Air flight crashes into sea

Trump Persuaded Struggling People to Invest in Scams, Lawsuit Says

Jimmy Carter says something is very wrong with Georgia governor's electionF

Ninth child dies in deadly viral outbreak in New Jersey

Package addressed to Atlanta CNN Center similar to others mailed last week

There are 18 cases of white-supremacist killings since Trump was inaugurated

Trump sends 5,200 troops to Mexico border as caravan advances

Andrew Gillum thrashes Trump for calling him a ‘thief’: ‘He’s howling because he’s weak’

Angela Merkel exit to polarise Germany and Europe

Conservative Matt Drudge unloads on Fox News for laughing about the massacre of Jews

Assange says Ecuador seeking to end his asylum

Gaza's drinking water spurs blue baby syndrome, serious illnesses

Trump & GOP Have Blood on Their Hands for Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting & Hateful Violence (VIDEO)

Haitians Rise Up Against Corruption, Austerity

How US policy in Honduras set the stage for today’s migration

Lewis Hamilton wins fifth F1 title

How much power does Saudi Arabia wield over the global economy?

Did Trump destroy the conservative movement? No — he cashed in on its darkest tendencies

4 Members of Violent White Supremacist Group Face Riot Charges

Brazil elections: Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro wins presidency

Young black Portuguese men take police brutality case to court

Right Wing Nationalist Terror Stalks the Nation says Henry Giroux

Gab Social Media Site Connected to Synagogue Shooter Loses Hosting, Funding

Fox News host nails Georgia Secretary of State over sketchy voter purge: ‘Suppression is alive and well’

Mikhail Gorbachev: A New Nuclear Arms Race Has Begun

Ireland re-elects president, set to dump blasphemy law

Merkel's party suffers losses in Hesse elections as right-wing AfD enters parliament

A Tragedy in Three Parts: Corporations, Coups, and Crazies

Is Donald Trump Responsible for Violence? Yes.

Last survivor of WWII raid on Rome’s Jewish Ghetto dies

Reports of Voter Intimidation at Polling Places in Texas

LeBron James dons Beto O'Rourke hat to game in San Antonio

Hundreds of thousands march for marriage equality in Taiwan

'While the Rest of the World Burned,' Billionaires Made More Money in 2017 Than Any Other Year in History

The Trump administration’s withdrawal of California gillnet protections for whales, turtles ruled illegal

11 killed, several wounded, in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Ben Jealous Wants Maryland to Move Forward in the Age of Trump

Black journalist banned from Trump’s Young Black Leadership Summit

Last Rites for the Village Voice, a Bohemian Who Stayed On Too Long

Baltimore's new Divine mural defies conventions — and the law

Pipe Bombs Sent to Trump Critics, Right Wing Nationalist Terror Stalks the Nation

Critics blast Kemp for posing for photo with anti-Muslim extremist

'Whites don't shoot whites': 2 black people shot dead in Kentucky

Is Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE

Bombing suspect’s van blanketed in pro-Trump bumper stickers

Trump Admin Opens Up Alaska for Drilling, Threatening Already At-Risk Arctic Biodiversity (VIDEO)

Live From The Sunken Place: Trump Attends MAGA-Cap-Wearing Young Black Leadership Summit

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Megyn Kelly, Blackface and NBC’s "Hate Crime-Adjacent" Problem

How Andrew Gillum turned the state of Florida into a beachhead for the progressive movement

Same-sex penguin couple become parents

Cory Booker latest Democrat to be targeted by explosive device through the mail

Suspicious package sent to Democratic Senator Harris

More than 200 retired journalists condemn president’s ‘un-American’ attacks on press

Israeli warplanes carry out air attacks in besieged Gaza

Florida governor restores voting rights to white Republican felons — after restricting black felons

Ethiopia Appoints Its First Female President

Former Fed Chair Paul Vlocker Warns of Failed Government

Ex-Texas firefighter gets a year in prison for leaving nooses at black family’s home

Watch Newt Gingrich blame bomb recipients for bringing it on themselves

Former Fed Chair Paul Volcker Warns About US Becoming a Plutocracy

NATO launches its largest war games since end of Cold War

Republicans Will Cut Your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid Benefits

Judge Rules Georgia Must Stop Tossing Out Absentee Ballots

Trump Blames Media for Inciting “Anger” After Bombs Sent to CNN & High-Profile Democrats (VIDEO)

European Parliament votes for ban on single-use plastic

'Suspicious package' seized from Robert De Niro-linked building

Senator refers Kavanaugh accuser, Avenatti for criminal probe

New York sues Exxon for misleading investors on climate change risk

‘Apology not accepted’: Internet rains hell on Megyn Kelly’s ‘crocodile tears’ over blackface blowback

Pope Francis says populism leads to Hitler

NYC mayor Bill de Blasio says mail bombs were ‘an effort to terrorize’ Americans and the free press

A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

U.S. white nationalist leader, three others charged with inciting riots

Georgia votes for Democrat Stacey Abrams are being changed to Republican Brian Kemp

'The most famous black man in South Korea'

Inside Nikki Haley’s Shocking Speech to Secretive Far-Right Group

Americans' anger may help Democrats in Nov. 6 vote: Reuters/Ipsos poll

$1.5bn Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in South Carolina

Trump picks former Monsanto executive to lead U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Under pressure over Khashoggi killing, MBS praises Qatar economy

Retrial to begin for US border agent who shot teen across border

Israel Forced to Delay Illegal Demolition of Palestinian Village Amid Growing International Pressure

Former Monsanto Executive Picked by Trump to Lead Wildlife Agency

Day After Bomb Found at Soros Home, 'Potential Explosive Devices' Sent to Clinton, Obama, and CNN

Stacey Abrams Slams Brian Kemp on Suppressing Vote as He Worries Too Many Georgians Will Vote (VIDEO)

Three Women Face Felony Charges For Saving Thrown Away Baby Cow

Greg Palast Sues Georgia’s Brian Kemp for Purging 340,000 from Voter Rolls Ahead of Election (VIDEO)

Robert Reich: Democrats Should Go Big and Bold

GOP school board member busted for Facebook plot to accuse the 2020 Dem presidential nominee of sexual assault

Peru's natives say Amazon Waterway Project threatens food sources

U.S. appeals court revives Nestle child slavery lawsuit

In Leaked Audio, Brian Kemp Expresses Concern Over [Blacks] Exercising Their Right to Vote

Megyn Kelly Can’t Understand What’s So Offensive About Blackface: ‘What Is Racist?’

In Texas, Trump speech takes far-right turn: 'I'm a nationalist.'

You Have Nothing to Apologize For! The Defense of White Male Privilege

What Jamal Khashoggi's murder tells us about the West's 'friendly' autocrats

Second migrant caravan in Guatemala heads toward Mexico

The U.S. Helped Destabilize Honduras. Now Honduran Migrants Are Fleeing Political & Economic Crisis (VIDEO)

How the man behind Khashoggi murder ran the killing via Skype

Tesla critic Citron makes U-turn ahead of results

Cheers, claps as MBS shows up at 'Davos in the desert' event

The West Enabled Khashoggi's Demise - Not To Mention All the Other Saudi Crimes

Irish Women Demand Equal Pay

Microplastics now found in our poop

“Reminiscent of South Africa’s Grand Apartheid”: Israeli Human Rights Group Slams Israel at U.N. (VIDEO)

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the State of the U.S. Empire

King says Jordan to reclaim land held by Israel under 1994 deal

Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination

Germany halts arms deals with Saudi Arabia, encourages allies to do the same

The history of African slavery in Iran

Foreigners sell net $1.1 billion of Saudi stocks as journalist disappearance rattles investors

State Supreme Courts Thwart GOP Politicians’ Court-Packing Plans

US Air Force Admits F-35 Will Harm Health and Learning of Vermont Children

Saying goodbye to Paul Allen and people too big to fit into headlines

Evangelist scalds fellow pastors for abandoning their ‘moral core’ to support Trump

Hundreds of migrants storm Spanish enclave in North Africa, one dies

Taiwan train crash kills 18 in deadliest rail tragedy in decades

Khashoggi’s Murder and Saudi War Crimes in Yemen Were Facilitated by US

Is it the end of cheap pad thai in Bangkok?

Inside the Arab heart of Mexico City

Media investigation exposes scale of years-long European tax scam

Gaza’s Great March of Return: Six months on, we are still struggling against Israeli oppression

Jamal Khashoggi called for freedom of expression in final column

Russia liquidates nearly all its holdings of US debt

Technology Access Gap Leaves Millions of Students Struggling to Keep Up

Longtime Republican flees the GOP because of Republican party pettiness

Khashoggi Dismembered With Bone Saw for 7 Minutes While Alive

Sudan ex-president Abdulrahman Suwar al-Dahab dies aged 83

Illinois Prisons Sued for Unconstitutional Ban on LGBTQ Literature

‘We Will Kill You’: Video Shows Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes Calling for Violence From Trump Supporters

4 Khashoggi Murder Suspects Are Linked to Saudi Crown Prince – Who Is Jared Kushner's Friend

New York Times puts happy face on violent "Proud Boy" racist Gavin McInnes

Georgia Secretary of State busted pushing racist voting ID video

The 'peaceful' refugee camp with yoga classes and lavender bushes

Native American Women Are Running for Office in Record Numbers (VIDEO)

US student Lara Alqasem claims victory in Israel boycott case

Student gunman kills 19 in Crimea

Canada legalizes cannabis - other countries likely to follow

LA Voters to Consider Creating Nation’s First Municipal Public Bank

Women hold 50 percent of new Ethiopian cabinet positions

Ttacher accused of sexually abusing sixth-grader found dead

The 200 Most Richest Entities Are Now Corporations, Not Governments

Oscar Romero, Martyr for Salvadoran Revolution, Canonized by Pope Francis

Black Voters Matter blocked from taking seniors to vote

Thousands flee Honduras in US-bound caravan

Food Justice in Urban Agriculture

Republicans in North Dakota Are Attempting to Disenfranchise Thousands of Native Voters (VIDEO)

Voter Registration Is Inherently Racist

Anti-Terrorism Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists

Artechouse: Living at the corner of art and technology

Buddhist monk kills 9-yr old boy amid ongoing religious crisis in Thailand

Rwandan President Kagame says French President: Macron has brought ‘freshness’ to world politics

British cyclist shot dead by hunter in France

Hong Kong protesters reject plans for artificial islands

The world’s first 'fully recycled' road is made in France

Portland rightwing ‘Law and Order’ march erupts into ‘huge bloody brawl’

Banksy’s self-destructing “Girl With Balloon” is worth even more shredded

Are White Christians the Most Persecuted Group in America?

Berlin protests against far-right politics draw thousands

Will Pidgin Become an Official Language in Africa?

A new $60 billion agency is the clearest sign the US is worried about China’s Africa influence

Why the US needs better crime reporting statistics

The Business of Misery: Private Prisons in the US

Low Wages and No Benefits: Unemployment numbers conceal a grand deception

How the Wealthy Destroy Public Schools, One Gift at a Time

Jordan and Syria agree to reopen Naseeb border crossing

White Woman Calls Police On Black Man Babysitting White Kids

Independent Media Censored in Mass Facebook Purge

Living in the New Guilded Age

Brazil's first native woman voted to Congress

White Woman Calls Police on a Black Child Claiming Sexual Assault

China dumps US Treasury bonds amid trade war

Black Republican acknowledges GOP’s racism and voter suppression efforts

China is trying to erase the Uighurs and their culture

‘Proud Boys’ Kick, Punch People in New York Following Speech From Leader

A Far-Right Men’s Group Violently Beat Up Protesters And Weren’t Arrested.

America’s ‘crazy’ election system is the worst in the world

Portland demonstrators protest death of Patrick Kimmons, who was shot by police

What Is Behind The Conservative Win In Quebec?

Proceed with Caution: A tech boom in Pittsburgh brings hope and angst

Hackers stole details of 29 million users in Facebook breach

South Africa's apartheid-era FM Pik Botha dies

Dozens killed by massive landslide in Uganda, many more missing

Dozens killed by massive landslide in Uganda, many more missing

Schumer Rubber Stamps 15 More Right-Wing Judges for Trump

The Next Republic: The Rise Of A New Radical Majority

Qatari fuel enters Gaza to avert 'humanitarian disaster'

Walmart Canada considering cannabis products

Extreme stress in childhood is toxic to your DNA

Postal Workers Nationwide Stand Together Against Privatization Plan

In Germany and America, Invisible Walls

The weird world of one-sided objects

Columbus Day and Native Americans

Former Trump aide Hope Hicks joins Fox as communications chief

How the loss of Native American languages affects our understanding of the natural world

Romanian constitutional ban on same sex marriage fails

Saint Kavanaugh

Magnitude-5.9 earthquake hits Haiti, at least 11 dead

Turkey concludes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed by ‘murder’ team, sources say

GOP’s Brian Kemp Purged 1 in 10 Georgia Voters, says Greg Palast

Schoolgirls beaten in India for confronting sexual harassers

Fundraising campaign against Sen. Susan Collins nears $3.5 million

Turkish president calls Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance ‘very, very upsetting’

Interpol chief Meng Hongwei resigns after detention in China

Journalist Viktoria Marinova raped and murdered in Bulgaria

Brett Kavanaugh sworn in as US Supreme Court justice

Wall Street Journal ripped for ‘rape joke’ headline about Susan Collins ‘consenting’ to Kavanaugh

California wild horses to be captured, activists fear slaughter

Is India on its Way out of Poverty?

Will Brazil's next president be filled with rage and hate?

How Political Is This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize?

Will Chicago elect an African-American lesbian as its next mayor?

Nobel Peace Prize honors fight against sexual violence

Why I’m not surprised Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland isn’t a full professo

Senator Kamala Harris delivers blistering rebuke to GOP as Kavanaugh confirmation debate opens

Chicago jury convicts police officer Jason Van Dyke of murder in shooting death of Laquan McDonald

It's Your Post Office. Keep It.

Putin arrives in India for arms deal worth billions of dollars

New materials are powering the battery revolution

7 officers shot, 1 fatally, after attempt to serve warrant in South Carolina

Hate speech by Ohio mayor recorded by police chief's body cam

500+ Law Professors Agree: Kavanaugh's Testimony Was 'Disqualifying"

The 22 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct

A Very Tarnished Court

Georgia cop who lied about being shot by black man sentenced to 15 years in prison

Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father

Human dignity is a concept with remarkably shallow historical roots

Michael Avenatti puts Kavanaugh accuser on TV after FBI ignores his requests

Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour dies at age 94