On average 5,680 workers in America die each year in work-related incidents. The US Department of Labor's (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is supposed to enforce federal laws to protect workers from these incidents.

In a unanimous ruling today, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a 2007 lower court ruling that a 1998 law banning same-sex unions was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled that the 1998 law violated the equal protection clause in the Iowa Constitution.

As President Obama begins his first European tour this week, starting with the G20 economic summit, he's finding that much of the rest of the world has suddenly become quite uppity.

New York, NY – Saturday, April 4, will mark the tragic anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death in Memphis, TN. It is also the anniversary of his "Beyond Vietnam" speech at Riverside Church, NYC one year earlier.

Both the House and Senate passed federal budget outlines for fiscal year 2010 on Thursday, April 2, which were mainly in keeping with President Obama's priorities.

Ever wonder what to do with your old cell phone? Is it sitting in your kitchen drawer right now because you don't want it to end up in the land fill, but you have no idea what else to do with it?

ATLANTA – Last month, March 2009, New Mexico became the second state to outlaw the death penalty since the Supreme Court of the United States' 1976 decision made the practice legal. Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) signed the legislation.

As absurd as it may appear, the strategy and experience of the Cuban "Special Period" of the nineties of the past century could be useful to the West in terms of the crisis that is plaguing the world today.

Por paradójico que parezca, la estrategia y las experiencias cubanas del “período especial” de los años noventa del pasado siglo podrían e útiles a Occidente en las condiciones de la crisis en que se adentra hoy el mundo.

Japan’s business circles are united in standing against the effort to stop global warming on the grounds that “the public will be forced to pay the cost” without mentioning the merit of the effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Australia's NSW government has used crimes allegedly carried out by members of bikie clubs to justify introducing laws that would strip the state’s citizens of their the civil rights.

During the second Summit of Arab and South American Nations in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proposed a new international currency backed by oil reserves and an international bank managed jointly by petroleum exporting countries.

Producing an alternative to the Obama budget plan has been something of a fiasco for congressional Republicans. They began in February by debating the scope of the Obama budget, criticizing the spending growth and inherited deficits as if President Obama created the problems facing the country.

The G-20, made up of the most economically developed and emerging nations, which represent some 90 percent of the global GDP, 80 percent of world trade and two-thirds of the population, will hold a summit on April 2nd in London.

ROME (Reuters) - John C. Yoo, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, was arrested on Tuesday in Milan, Italy, and is being held for possible extradition to Spain.

Over strong criticisms from many in its antiwar constituency, the Obama administration last week announced a second increase in the number of US troops in Afghanistan.

Nothing like it has ever happened. The President of the United States, the elected representative of the people, has just told the head of General Motors -- a company that's spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 list than anyone else -- "You're fired!"

The biographical facts about the life of Eddie Adams are clear. He photographed 13 wars and six US presidents, and almost every other culturally and historically important person. He had a hell of a career.