BP and the federal government, with the help of the media, claim that oil from the Gulf disaster has been captured, dispersed or is simply "gone."

There is only one person responsible for the New York Knicks becoming a sports punchline, and his name is James Dolan.

Approximately 60 Sky Chefs workers and their supporters rallied across the road from their workplace by Portland's airport.

Barack Obama may heave a sigh of relief at the lack of response to the WikiLeaks documents, but the war on Afghanistan remains a failure.

Multimillionaire pop star Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti, but he's no friend of the country's popular movement.

Some 130 LGBT activists turned out to protest the National Organization for Marriage's attempt to bring its message of hate to Winter Park, Fla.

It's time to stop Britain's former prime minister from profiting off connections he made in his old job committing war crimes.

BP's catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico was enabled by government regulators who see their job as helping the industry.

After weeks of the White House touting a recovery, the latest jobs numbers and a Federal Reserve statement have put a spotlight on the weak economy.

Thousands of equal marriage supporters gathered in San Francisco to celebrate a judge's ruling that declared Prop 8 unconstitutional.

The veteran new wave band Devo has a new album, but the message thankfully remains the same: Corporate America is running amok.

The Kids Are All Right is one of several films that miss a chance to say something original about gender and sexuality.

The crusade against plans for a mosque in Lower Manhattan is more than the ravings of racists. It's the crudest face of the U.S. government's "war on terror."

Israel's own inquiry into the assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla uncovered a cunning trick of the "terrorists" to not do anything remotely terrorist.

Frederick Bell faces execution in Mississippi if the courts won't take up his plea that evidence of his innocence be heard.

More than 1,000 people are dead and tens of thousands homeless after the worst flooding the country has seen in 80 years.

Two hundred and twenty years after a key event of the French Revolution, French lawmakers supported a ban on the burqa.

The British government's austerity budget will cause severe hardship for workers--unless our side fights for an alternative.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have gotten 40 billionaires to take the "Giving Pledge." But the truth is the rest of us are getting taken.

A federal judge's resounding blow against discrimination in ruling against California's Proposition 8 sparked celebrations across the country.