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Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.

More than 2,700 Israelis have signed this open letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’

Three months after Hitler promised to uphold the German Constitution, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service,

The US singer-songwriter, who has died at 97, encountered Louis Armstrong and more as she championed civil rights as much as music. In her final interview conducted last week, she explained why she was still angry.

Something unprecedented is happening in Puerto Rico which, like the U.S., will hold its general election on November 5th. For the first time ever, the island could elect a governor who favors Puerto Rico’s independence from the United States.

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IAM District 751 and W24 Machinists voted by 64% to reject the contract and continue to strike. Boeing’s decision to strip workers of their pensions and refusal to return them remains at the heart of this strike for many.

The former president actually said that the wages of US workers are ‘too high’. And that’s far from the worst

Is this the beginning of the end for property taxes? One state could change the game…

A new United Nations report sounds alarm "over the millions of lives that are being shattered and the decades of development efforts that are being wiped out," said one official.