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Food safety at risk with Republican slashes

January 4, 2011 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Republican plans to cut taxes for the rich and social spending for working families may threaten food safety, say supporters of a law passed in the lame duck session of Congress and signed into law this...

2010: Labor wins some, loses some

January 4, 2011 By John Wojcik

Labor posted some wins — and losses — in 2010.

Scott sisters freed!

January 4, 2011

Jamie and Gladys Scott received the news on December 29 that their 16-year prison ordeal was over at last: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour commuted their double-life sentences and ordered them out of prison. They were originally...

Imperialist bullying sharpens in Haiti

January 4, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Foreign intervention in Haiti is as problematic as ever, including food aid that is undoing Haiti's economy and independence.

U.S. ousts Venezuelan ambassador

January 3, 2011 By Emile Schepers

WASHINGTON - In what seems to be a growing diplomatic spat, the United States State Department announced it was cancelling the diplomatic visa of Bernardo Alvarez, the Venezuelan ambassador here in Washington, Dec. 29.