Sahrawi activists and filmmakers are leading renewed calls to boycott the big-screen adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic The Odyssey over filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s decision to shoot the film ...

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It’s called Section 219. Tucked away in the massive congressional spending bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, this provision of the law would effectively require our nation ...

Today, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that President Trump’s lawsuit asking for $10 billion from the IRS was ...

The four Democrats traveled to Cuba last Thursday and spent several days meeting with local leaders, touring the streets of Havana, and speaking with President Miguel Díaz-Canel as the country ...

US President Donald Trump speaks after signing a presidential proclamation honoring the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, joined by Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Frank ...

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On the heels of a deadly European heatwave, fierce fires erupted in Greece, Spain, Portugal, and France over the weekend, raising fears for a summer of extremes as the effects of the climate emergency ...