Earlier this month Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested that the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill currently before Congress could make it easier, in the future, to roll back Dodd-Frank financial reforms. The reaction from the Obama...

News that businessman and music mogul Jay Z and his wife Beyoncé  wired money to bail out arrested Baltimore and Ferguson protestors was greeted with applause by many as the artists stepped up their support for the Black Lives Matters movement....

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longtime Washington insider and critic of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, said he would announce on June 1 whether he will seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination....

The man accused of shooting at George Zimmerman sounds a lot like George Zimmerman. Matthew Apperson surrendered Saturday to police on several charges and was released the next day on bond, reported WESH-TV. The 36-year-old Apperson is accused...

New York rapper Lionel Pickens, who goes by the name “Chinx”, was shot and killed on Sunday while driving through the city’s borough of Queens, police said. Pickens, 31, had multiple gun shot wounds to his torso and was...

In a sit-down interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network on Saturday, potential GOP presidential nominee Jeb Bush explained that a “tolerant country” should make room for “people of faith” to discriminate against...

Poland has paid part of the damages to two men detained in a secret CIA prison on Polish soil before they were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, the foreign ministry told AFP on Monday. Last July, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned...

Many biblical literalists are suspicious of yoga and see it as a seductive point of entry into the Hindu religion.

A world-renowned extreme athlete died along with another man during a stunt at the Yosemite National Park in California, US media said Sunday. Tributes poured in from all over the globe for Dean Potter, 43, following his death on Saturday. He...

The United States slammed Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Saturday for “unconscionable” remarks, after the West African leader reportedly threatened to slit the throats of gay men in his country. In a public speech this month,...

He often speaks to an empty chamber, unheard and unheeded by his colleagues. But Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is America’s climate soothsayer, repeatedly imploring global warming skeptics to “wake up” and stop courting...

Singapore on Monday condemned Iranian forces for firing warning shots in the Gulf at a commercial ship registered in the Asian city-state, calling it a “serious violation of international law”. The Maritime and Port Authority (MPA)...

Russia on Monday managed on a second attempt to restart the engines of a Progress spacecraft attached to the International Space Station (ISS) and shift the station’s orbit. The success of the manoeuvre is a much-needed scrap of good news...

A former congressional candidate admitted to plotting the annihilation of a Muslim village identified by Sean Hannity and other conservatives as a terrorist training camp. Robert Doggart was arrested last month after FBI officials said the...

On HBO’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took on the “controlling *ssholes” at the country’s four largest poultry corporations which keep chicken farmers below the poverty line with economic sanctions, coercion, and...