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They are urging the international community to convene the Syria Peace Conference, known as Geneva II, as one of the many nonviolent measures available to the international community help resolve Syria’s conflict and to include women in the peace process.

A lot of gold and a lot of money

We can change the South and by doing so, we can change the nation.

The parallel with Iraq is crystal clear.

In twelve weeks, on the busiest shopping day of the year, Walmart workers will mount what may be the biggest-ever US strike against the retail giant

The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the internet – and now we have to fix it

While bacteria from lean mice prevent obesity in peers, microbes are only part of the story — the effect also depends on a healthy diet.

Of the 43% of households owing no federal income tax this year, about half simply earned too little income to qualify, including many retired workers who live on Social Security. The remaining households likely qualify for breaks via the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.