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The Nicaraguan government has freed more than 200 political prisoners and expelled them from the country. Many of those released were incarcerated for years for opposing the country’s leadership. All of them have been granted humanitarian…

She'd be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school's modern dance troupe and taking art classes. Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn't taken a single class in what used to be her high school…

A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the Black teenager’s brutal lynching. The torture and killing of Till in the Mississippi…

US President Joe Biden celebrated his economic record this week during the annual State of the Union address. While US unemployment statistics are on the upswing, economists say there are clear economic challenges. Keith Kocinski reports.…

Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund have held days of talks on reviving a stalled $6.5 billion bailout program but have failed to reach a deal to help prevent a looming default facing the South Asian nation. The 10-day talks with…

CAIRO — Egypt is embroiled in cost-of-living and currency crises, in part, exacerbated by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly one year ago — the fallout of which has led to severe disruptions in global food and energy security.…

If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only one-hundredth the…

Southwest Airlines executives and union officials are appearing before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Thursday to explain the cancellation of 16,700 flights last December in the middle of the holiday traveling season. In a statement…

Malawi's government has rejected U.S. concerns that it is waging a campaign of intimidation against the country's anti-corruption chief. The U.S. Embassy in Lilongwe on Wednesday condemned what it called harassment of Malawi's…

The U.S. State and Treasury Departments announced sanctions Thursday against nine entities identified as working with Iran's petrochemical and petroleum products trade that worked around previous U.S. sanctions. A statement from U.S.…