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The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days were disturbed only mildly by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA – not to be confused!

The Dream Defenders have scored a number of victories since initiating their #TakeoverFL sit-in.

In May, Ines Abdel-Dayem was fired from the Cairo Opera's chair; in July she was offered ministerial post which she turned down. Today, reinstated to the opera, she shares her thoughts about past months and reveals dynamic plans

Unemployment, Amazon, Detroit, Bank of America, the elite, Chicago Teachers, March on Washington

Today, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) released a new report: "ALEC at 40: Turning Back the Clock on Prosperity and Progress." The report identifies and analyzes 466 American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) bills introduced in 2013.

Good luck predicting how the new set of Israel-Palestine peace talks will unfold.

New laws banning abortion after 20 weeks are based on pseudoscience -- and real research proves it conclusively