UNITED NATIONS, March 31 -- The Obama administration decided Tuesday to join the U.N. Human Rights Council, reversing a decision by the Bush administration to shun the United Nations' premier rights body...

American soldier boasts of having tortured Iraqis and making a 15 years old Iraqi girl commit suicide after she had been raped.

As the health care debate in America continues, so does the suffering of Vietnam veterans and citizens due to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange used in the war.

USTIN, Texas - Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.

Organic farming, conservation, healthful food in schools -- the push is on to change the way the nation subsidizes farming

A federal appeals court removed a serious legal challenge to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program yesterday, overruling the only judge who held that a controversial surveillance effort by the National Security Agency was unconstitutio

Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947, and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard. Haut died last year, but ...

David Mowrer was working behind the counter of the Dallas Weston Dive Center when two FBI agents walked in last week.

CONSTRUCTION work to secure the US border with Mexico has desecrated an ancient American Indian burial ground, members of a local tribe claim. The US Border Patrol is building a 120km barrier along the border of Arizona and Mexico in a bid to stop drug a

Pilots for 9/11 Truth obtained black box data from the government under the Freedom of Information Act for AA Flight 77, which The 9/11 Report claims hit the Pentagon. Analysis of the data contradicts the official account in direction, approach, and altit