While this government bails out banks and Wall Street, jobs are eliminated, and as a result, many are hungry. Hunger is not something foreign. At least, consider this.

The Red Cross in Nigeria says many of those who were killed in clashes on Monday between troops and members of an Islamist sect in Bauchi were children.

Animals in American Culture ...examines the role of non-human animals in making cultural meaning, focusing on the many ways in which animals, not just humans, have shaped American history and culture...

HOUSTON - Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff.

Vermillion, S.D. » In the basement of a campus building at the University of South Dakota, students and professors are working to preserve eyewitness accounts of American history before they are lost to the elements.

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The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it will hear a dispute from California involving an evangelical Christian club at a public law school that wants recognition and funding as an official campus organization, even though it discriminates on religious

On December 8, 1980 John Lennon was murdered in front of his New York home, the Dakota.

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It is becoming common news that some children who are accused of practicing witchcraft are being abused and molested by their parents and religious leaders on the pretext of exorcising the 'evil' spirit in them. Ruth Choji takes a look at the phenomenon.