Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.

The US military on Friday bombed another boat it claimed was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three more people in what experts say is an illegal campaign whose death toll has now ...

A judge in Delaware—a state with more registered business entities than people—ruled Monday in favor of a small town that allows corporations to vote in local elections. Delaware Superior Court Judge ...

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Just weeks after President Donald Trump urged Americans to "go out and buy a Dell" and bought millions of dollars worth of stock in the company, the computer giant was awarded a $9.7 billion Pentagon ...

The Environmental Working Group praised Vermont for today becoming the first state in the nation to ban the use and sale of paraquat, one of the most toxic herbicides in the U.S., ...

A sitting US senator was pepper sprayed by federal immigration agents on Monday during a demonstration outside of the notorious Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, where migrants are ...

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In what it described as a "new level of corruption" for the Trump administration, an investigation by More Perfect Union has revealed how members of the president's inner circle are cashing in on the ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday released a 42,000-word encyclical calling for government regulation of artificial intelligence and implored world leaders to ensure the burgeoning technology is used for the ...