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"These two senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins," noted one observer.

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.

The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change

Are media owners surrendering press freedom?

A favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was by far M - Son of the Century directed by the talented UK filmmaker Joe Wright. It’s actually an Italian TV mini-series about the founder of fascism himself, Benito Mussolini.

The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past

That we don't know the answer to this question is the first problem that must be addressed.

Health insurance companies are a center-piece in a deeply corrupt, inhumane, and deleterious health system that allows business people to reap lofty profits even if it brings premature death, disability, and pain onto millions of families every day.

The series of open letters from human rights activists and former corrections officials aligned with a larger push from Democrats for sweeping clemency action for those in prison.

Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.