Republicans in the Senate have blocked a plan by Democrats to pump $56 billion in government spending into the economy through public works projects, help for the jobless and money for states struggling with their Medicaid bills.

when advocates point out that our nation is facing an altogether different kind of crisis, one of soaring hunger and homelessness, and that a large-scale bailout is needed to prevent social service providers nationwide from buckling under the increasing

Major retailers in New York, areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil

Women & children - disproportionately vulnerable to malnutrition, to abuses that follow extreme poverty: sexual exploitation, survival sex, the vulnerability to trafficking, the lack of economic security...

"the most destructive project on earth" is producing vast amounts of greenhouse gases and poisoning local water supplies.

A spate of negative publicity raises the question of whether police are using excessive force against women. A nurse's aide in Arizona, who faces a trial after being pulled over by an officer, says the issue is central to her own case.

It's hard to shock people in this modern wired world, but even the chief deputy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office in Florida found the security camera video of a jailer dumping a paralyzed man out of his wheelchair appalling.

Ms. O'Brien encourages people to do what she did: throw out as much nonorganic processed food as you can afford to. Avoid anything genetically modified, artificially created or raised with hormones. Don't eat food with ingredients you can't pronounce.

Sadly, as we begin our celebration of Hanukkah, we are faced with a glaring irony in Israel and Palestine: While we rejoice in the Festival of Lights, Israel continues to threaten to literally shut the lights out in Gaza.

Wal-Mart's health plan sued an ex-worker, brain-damaged in a crash, to collect money from a settlement she'd received. It's part of a trend in which companies aggressively try to recoup insurance costs.