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Interactive maps and charts that show the cost of living for all Counties in the US for different family sizes.

This new move by the administration jeopardizes the lives and health of millions of low-income women across the US. This also turns the clock back 30 years to oppressive Reagan-era restrictions intended to make it impossible for reproductive health groups to survive.

Although tasers are frequently identified by police as a necessary alternative to avoid deadly force, a 2017 Reuters investigation found that, since the early 2000s, more than 1,000 people have died after the police stunned them.

Transit officials in the nation’s capital did not have the money to keep the subway system open late for the Washington Capitals playoff game. But Qatar did.

Trump's policy towards Venezuela has become increasingly aggressive in the run-up to tomorrow's elections.

The Nicaraguan government’s brutal response to protests over social security cuts has produced a nationwide grassroots mobilization against President Daniel Ortega. The Ortega-Murillo regime faces a crisis of legitimacy, which could open the door to the forces of both democracy and reaction.

The point isn’t whether Obama is or isn’t a radical. It’s that we ourselves need to be.

The prescription, he argues in "Being Mortal," is to rethink our priorities for the dying—and give 'em something to live for.

In this view, hand stencils and animal paintings in Europe and Asia, separated by some 13,000 kilometers, have a common, far deeper origin in Africa.

When President Obama took office, there were five million Americans at home all day who are now, sadly, not at home