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Cuban medical professionals working around the world

March 27, 2014 By Ismael Parra

Solidarity is a way of life for Cubans. It's currently seen in the number of medical professionals that are working in countries outside of Cuba.

Racial discrimination leads to increased deaths of black women from breast cancer

March 27, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Although breast cancer survival rates increased overall between 1990 and 2010, white women benefited far more than did black women.

After collision, Texas ship channel awash in oil

March 25, 2014 By John Wojcik And Blake Skylar

The collision sent 170,000 gallons of oil into the body of water that connects the Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico and deals with up to 80 vessels per day. The oil quickly spread into...

U.S. covered up massive PCB contamination at Okinawa base

March 25, 2014 By Susan Webb

U.S. military officials did not report the contamination to Japanese authorities, and did nothing to alleviate the contamination.

Dioxins unearthed at U.S. base in Okinawa stir furor

March 24, 2014 By Susan Webb

"They were 55-gallon and, on occasion, 30-gallon drums. You could smell the chemicals and a few were stenciled with 'Defoliant' in white with 'Property KAB Special Services."