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While you were sleeping, the Iraqi security forces and the ex-insurgent militiamen known as the Awakening Councils or the Sons of Iraq skirmished in the Baghdad

As earlier reported by Michigan Messenger, activists in Detroit say Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded a school in order to detain an undocumented resident. In a follow up on the press conference held by the Alliance for Immigrants Rights and Reforms, Khaalid Walls, spokesperson for ICE in Michigan, first issued the following statement: Jose Maldonado Placensia, a fugitive alien, was arrested March 31st and is currently in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

It might not be quite as dramatic as the recent Congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball, and Roger Clemens won’t be there to attract hordes of

There’s been a lot of talk about the so-called clean energy race between the United States and China. But there’s a home-grown energy race brewing that has

More economic pessimism from Paul Krugman, whose skeptical views have a growing following: The United States risks losing an entire decade of growth and

Thought the massive quantities of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico were the only major threat to the country’s southeast coastal waters right now? Think

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Former CEOs insist at congressional hearings that larger market forces, rather than decisions made by executives, caused Wall Street to unravel.

One year after devastating floods in the Midwest, The Iowa Independent’s Lynda Waddington reports that government red tape continues to hinder recovery efforts.

Today’s news that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear the claims of kidnapping and torture filed against the United States by the American

Few communities of Washington wonks run into greater structural and institutional obstacles than advocates of reduced defense spending. Defense companies put

Yesterday, Noah Shachtman asked if the United States was really at war in Pakistan. Today President Obama made it clear: yes, the war is in Pakistan, with an

Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching -- more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching. On Election Day 2011, when Mississippians voted down

California Republicans are publicly wringing their hands this primary day over the possibility that a birther movement leader may actually be their nominee for

Today, the S&P/Case Shiller Housing Index shows some worrying, if unsurprising, statistics about the housing market. The good news is that the

That Top Kill maneuver that appeared so successful at blocking the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico earlier today? Not so successful anymore: BP had to

A pattern is developing with respect to the Afghanistan war. No one who advises Gen. Stanley McChrystal on his 60-day strategy review -- results coming soon! --

A private security company hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Kabul lost its contract with the State Department in 2007 over the failure of its guards to speak English, according to two senior diplomats who worked in the embassy at that time.

Just two days after receiving a letter from the White House urging that a public plan be part of the Democrats’ health reform strategy, Senate Finance Committee

New York Republicans are salivating over the House seat that Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is leaving behind to take an appointment as Secretary of State