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Erin Brockovich: California Methane Gas Leak is Worst U.S. Environmental Disaster Since BP Oil Spill
In the nation's biggest environmental disaster since the BP oil spill, a runaway natural gas leak above L.A. has emitted more than 150 million pounds of methane. Thousands of residents in the community of Porter Ranch have been evacuated. The company r...
The armed occupation of a federally owned wildlife outpost in remote Oregon has entered its fourth day. The occupation stems from a fight over public lands in the West and comes as a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center found the number of mil...
In 2008, the Duka brothers were among five men from suburban New Jersey who were convicted of conspiring to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base, but their supporters say the men were entrapped by the FBI. On Wednesday, the three brothers a...
At a mall in a predominantly Shiite area of the capital Baghdad, attackers detonated a car bomb and then stormed inside. At least 32 people were killed and 58 injured.
In 2010, Jane Mayer published an extensive profile of the billionaire Koch brothers in The New Yorker, exploring their quiet effort to funnel more than $100 million to right-wing causes. Six years later, Mayer reveals her subjects responded by hiring a...
On Wednesday morning, a man and woman armed with assault rifles and semiautomatic handguns opened fire at a social services center in San Bernardino killing 14 people. "Democracy Now!" speaks with California State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leó...
On Tuesday, a delegation of indigenous people the Ecuadorean Amazon set out in a handmade, wooden canoe along the Villette Canal. The Kichwa people of Sarayaku have been fighting oil exploitation on their lands for many years.
Nearly 200 nations reached an accord in Paris Saturday to rein in rising greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet. Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris the same day to demand further action.
A judge has rejected an effort by the nation's largest shopping center to stop a Black Lives Matter protest and force organizers to post on social media that it's canceled.
Today is day 84 of a runaway natural gas leak above L.A. that has emitted more than 150 million pounds of methane. Nearly 3,000 families in the community of Porter Ranch have been relocated into temporary housing, and the leak has raised concerns about...
A new report from Oxfam on global inequality finds the world's richest 62 billionaires now own as much wealth as half the world. The report singles out deregulation, privatization and offshore tax havens that have let trillions of dollars go untaxed.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump has called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."
