The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
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- Graphic: Detroit’s debt dwarfs those of the five largest municipalities that filed for bankruptcy in the last 60 years
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- The success or failure of President Barack Obama’s climate agenda now rests squarely on Gina McCarthy’s shoulders
- A group of hunger-striking detainees at Guantánamo Bay is contesting the U.S. government’s refusal to let them pray communally during Ramadan
- Coal demand across Southeast Asia may almost double between 2010 and 2020 to 230 million tons
- Does televising important trials let people better understand the case, and the criminal justice system, or does that attention turn the justice system into a circus?
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- The birth of “stand your ground” law
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