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Australian wildfires burning out of control

January 8, 2013 By Blake Skylar

One hundred and thirty fires blazed across New South Wales, Australia's most heavily populated state, as emergency teams evacuated national parks and fought to get the flames under control.

Venezuelan right wing creates false crisis on Chavez inauguration

January 8, 2013 By Emile Schepers

The stakes in this situation are high not only for Venezuela but for the entire Latin American and Caribbean area.

Gay marriage backers put the spotlight on Illinois

January 8, 2013 By John Wojcik

"We are a stable family, why shouldn't we have the same respect and the same rights as any other couple, as any other family?"

Why picket lines matter

January 8, 2013 By Caitlin Vega

I spent so much time on picket lines as a kid that when I thought my dad's rules were too strict, I would run to build a sign on a stick and try to talk the...

Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history

January 8, 2013 By Marc Brodine

Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.