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  Puerto Rico is going to default. In a television address made Sunday, Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said the island’s Government Development Bank (GDB)… Read More ›

  Washington – Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is appealing to African-American voters to prevent the progress achieved under Barack Obama’s presidency from being “torn away”… Read More ›

  New York, NY – Uber drivers in New York state have formed an association to strengthen their hand in dealing with the ride-sharing service,… Read More ›

  Five hundred people were arrested in Germany after violent clashes broke out, authorities said. More than 1,000 people were protesting Saturday in Stuttgart, where… Read More ›

Protesters who stormed Baghdad’s Green Zone retreated Sunday but organizers say the challenge to Iraq’s leadership isn’t over yet. Hundreds, if not thousands, of followers… Read More ›

  Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.’s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape. “We… Read More ›

Founding ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo talks about war crimes trials and trying to deter genocide: past, present and future.   BUILDING GLOBAL  institutions is the… Read More ›

The question of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in 9/11 will remain in the arena of speculation and conspiracy theories.   Since 2005, the families of the… Read More ›

Israel and pragmatic Sunni states preparing for the day radical sub-state groups target them.   Last Wednesday, during the middle of the tranquil Passover vacation,… Read More ›

  (Reuters) – Yahoo has shortlisted close to 10 bidders in the auction for its core Internet assets, including Verizon, with most offers involving cash… Read More ›

  Journalist Jason Rezaian made an appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night. Rezaian, 40, is a California-born Iranian-American who worked as The… Read More ›

  For nearly three years, iPad sales have been falling on a quarterly basis, a disappointing run for a device repeatedly held up as the… Read More ›

  United Nations – Iran asked U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to convince the United States to stop violating state immunity after the top… Read More ›

  Omaha, NE – Warren Buffett said on Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway Inc is poised to do well no matter who wins the White House… Read More ›

  Alexander Prokhorenko was battling to free the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. But he found himself surrounded by Islamic militants. He feared that he… Read More ›

Protesters inflamed by a Shiite cleric’s speech about government inaction and corruption stormed the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Saturday and invaded the Iraqi… Read More ›

  Washington – Obama … out. President Barack Obama took his leave of the White House press corps Saturday with a sardonic blast at Donald… Read More ›

Conditions have improved since this empty meadow, under the gaze of several distant casinos, turned from a scrum of desperately fleeing victims of war into… Read More ›

  Obamacare was dealt a huge image blow on April 19 when United Healthcare announced that it was pulling its plans from all but a “handful” of… Read More ›

Is this the top? In a note to clients on Friday, UBS strategist Julian Emanuel suggests that a few signs pointing to the “endgame” for… Read More ›