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This week, more than a decade after congress passed PREA in July 2003, those standards went into effect. Among them: No inmate under 18 may be placed in a housing unit where contact will occur with adult inmates in a common space, shower area or sleeping quarters.

Young farm workers are falling ill from “green tobacco sickness” while the industry denies it and government lets it happen.

An interview with Seattle's new socialist councilmember, Kshama Sawant.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer first reported on the food drive, which has sparked outrage in the area.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans. It's a win for corporations

Growing income inequality will pose a major threat to social stability in countries around the globe, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum.

As unrest simmers in the Middle East and the United States edges toward detente with Iran, Israel and Saudi Arabia are trying to ride out the storm together.

Seattle pauses surveillance plans; Journalists on the move; Google wins book-scanning decision; Supercomputer Watson for all; Writers persecuted for digital media use; Google bigger than print industries.