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In January Russia banned “The Death of Stalin". This may have been the first time in post-Soviet history a movie that had already been granted permission to screen was pulled from theatres by order of the government. What made the film so dangerous?

Labor unions offer their support to a lawsuit filed today in San Francisco against the Trump Administration to stop the unlawful termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) .

To the U.S., steps toward denuclearization have been the starting and ending point for negotiations with North Korea. But for the North Koreans, it has always been about trying to secure a guarantee to merely exist.

Palestinians slam new 'breach of loyalty' legislation as 'extremely racist' and a violation of international law.

For the past year, AlterNet has reported on ICE's notable cruelty since Trump's inauguration. Now the numbers are in, and they confirm that the stories of ICE targeting non-criminal individuals aren't just one-off aberrations.

Administration proposals about changes to the SNAP food program received harsh criticism from a wide variety of experts. Michel Nischan, founder of Wholesome Wave, discusses problems with the new proposals.

For those who say people kill not gun, I would say what really kills is white privilege, not guns. We are living in a time, where a black kid could be shot by the police for holding a toy gun and young Muslims can be sent to life in prison for daring to think of a gun. At the same time, white folks are actually, buying and carrying, machine, and assault weapons, threatening and intimidating neighbors, teachers, friends and classmates under the watch eyes of our law enforcements, as in the latest shooting at Parkland High School in Florida.

At a community meeting last fall, we asked our members if they feared being pushed out of South Los Angeles. All hands were raised.

New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.