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Posted 53 minutes ago at 11:37 am. Elections have consequences. But sometimes we have to wait a bit to learn what they are.

One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.

U.S. Senator John Kerry said on Tuesday he will try to "outline" a compromise climate control bill before December's international global warming conference and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave an upbeat assessment of Washington's intentions.

The American Civil Liberties Union has dropped a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration that claimed a man was wrongly detained the St.

A New Jersey man detained for months in Ethiopia on allegations of supporting Islamic militants before being allowed to come home sued the FBI agents involved in his interrogations.

Rising temperatures over the next few decades will unleash storms, floods and drought across China's Yangtze River Basin, a new report says, raising the prospect of catastrophe for a region that is home to nearly a third of the country's population.

A New Jersey appeals court panel has ruled that police use-of-force reports are public records .

With the approach of global climate talks in Copenhagen, activists are hoping to draw world attention to their fight to save the last tropical forests on Indonesia's Sumatra island.

CHICAGO - An Illinois judge has issued a temporary restraining order delaying enforcement of a law requiring doctors to notify parents of teens who are seeking an abortion.

In a stunning blow against international law and human rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict.

Today, over 800 student activists converged on Capitol Hill for the largest lobby day to prevent genocide in history.

Animal research is necessary for scientific advancement. Unfortunately, the public fails to realize how much care goes into ensuring read more animal welfare in research labs.

Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:59am EST - Artist Yoko Ono performs in Venice June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi NEW YORK - No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years.

The New Orleans lawyer suing big oil over Hurricane Katrina is making headway. On October 16, Gerald Maples, who was interviewed by GBIZ in June, won on appeal the right to sue Murphy Oil and about 30 other big oil and coal companies, under the common law of nuisance, trespass and negligence, for the added ferocity of the 2005 hurricane that ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado is asking a town to dismiss charges against a Texas musician accused of violating an ordinance banning panhandling.

One day after the highest-level US diplomatic visit to Burma since 1995, a US official downplayed the chances that the Obama administration's policy of "pragmatic engagement"

with the regime will quickly lead to democratic reform or an improved human rights record.

The US wants to see "real progress" in Burma, which is officially known as Myanmar, before it extends bilateral ties with the country's military junta, Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel said in Bangkok on Thursday.

THE US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children's deaths in last year's Sichuan earthquake.

London: The finance ministers of G-20 nations have agreed on a timetable for the new framework for balanced and sustainable growth of the global economy, but made a little progress on financing efforts to reduce global warming.

The Patrick administration is rethinking its support of wood-burning power plants, a key element of its long-term strategy to wean the state off fossil fuels.

Liberals and conservatives each have their own intellectual food chains. They have their own think tanks to provide arguments, politicians and pundits to amplify them, and news media outlets to deliver streams of prejudice-affirming stories.