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The teachers agreement agreement, which was passed with more than 77 percent of the roughly 90,000 votes cast and includes billions of dollars in back pay, is likely to set the standard for several other municipal unions that, like the teachers’ union, were left without contracts in the final years of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s administration.

A Rio de Janeiro favela hosts People's Cup for communities affected by FIFA restrictions, evictions and home demolitions.

City's police have shot dead 25 people since 2010; activists occupy mayor's office to demand police reform.

Senator Bernie Sanders: 'We need to expand economic models that help the middle-class.'

While the American reactor industry continues to suck billions of dollars from the public treasury, its allies in the corporate media seem increasingly hesitant to cover the news of post-Fukushima Japan.

NSA collects faces; SCOTUS refuses Risen; Data brokering; EU refuses Google; Dissent's media roundtable

Edward Snowden talks NSA and internet surveillance at SXSW.

Manufacturing jobs are not what they used to be. Companies increasingly hire temp workers through contractors who are paid less and even wear different shirts. Employees paint a grim picture of the work and the long-term impact on the local economy.

Fifteen towns approve resolution that would establish bank that works for people of Vermont, not Wall Street.

Anti-Fascist Action Ukraine estimated that 30 percent of the protesters in Kiev's Independence Square were far-right ultranationalists, and that was before the shooting began, when more of them joined the street battles.