A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group rushes toward the Persian Gulf. Decades-old B-52 bombers rumble down runways at desert air bases. The Pentagon, meanwhile, routes a Patriot missile battery and an

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The Chapwood Index...exposes why middle-class Americans — salaried workers who are given routine pay hikes and retirees who depend on annual increases in their corporate pension and Social Security payments

Facebook announced Thursday afternoon that it had designated some high-profile people, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who's notorious for using anti-Semitic language, and right-wing

In their latest Social Security trustees report, which was released Monday, Treasury Department officials and economists said far fewer workers applied for disability benefits in 2018 than they expected,

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No matter how many times you’ve dumpster dived, it’s always something new. You always find something you’ve never found before. And the smell of a dumpster doesn’t give you any hint. One behind a florist

In a stunning, unanimous opinion handed down Tuesday morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit threw out every single pretrial order issued over the past 3½ years in the case of Abd al-Rahim

Who will be among those who remember the moral imperative to speak truth to power, and nominate Julian Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize? In memory of Carl von Ossietzky, an investigative journalist and

“Of course the funeral matters! Do you really want to broadcast your disrespect to the whole neighborhood? Did you think that was a request? The mother of the most dangerous man in the city dies and when