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Walmart, the largest retailer in the world and the largest private employer in U.S. announces the elimination of insurance for an estimated 30,000 part-time workers and across-the-board hikes in health insurance premium costs for the remainder of its workforce. Despite soaring profits, Walmart is cutting health insurance for its part-time workers even as it is "systematically eroding full-time jobs."

As the World Health Organization warns the Ebola outbreak could infect up to 20,000 people, experts urge the international community to take more aggressive action to address crisis. Medical professionals fighting the Ebola epidemic on the ground in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria say it is "unacceptable" that "serious discussions are only starting now about international leadership and coordination" to fight the virus.

The information given the U.S. public on the exact scope and objective of the increased U.S. military role in Iraq is very "thin." Critics warn the increased air attacks could not only presage a wider war, but contradict other stated U.S. policies in the region and deepen the humanitarian crisis there as well.

The Immokalee, Florida farmworkers who have won battles against some of food industry's biggest corporations take aim at Publix and Wendy's

Over 50,000 demand 'dignity' in garment industry where majority-female workforce faces dangerous conditions and some of lowest wages in world

Protesters are levying a broad range of concerns about public policies that devastate Colombia's workers, indigenous, and Afro-Colombian communities. The US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement has forced small farmers to compete with subsidized US products, made them more vulnerable to market fluctuations, and eroded their protections and social safety nets through the implementation of neoliberal policies domestically.

Critics blast Obama's decision to delay mandated employer health insurance in Affordable Care Act that was already a concession to private industry.

High school's tough enough without having to face prison time for refusing to serve an occupation you know is wrong.