The Senate Committee on Finance advanced legislation that would grant President Obama authority to fast track a massive trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. The issue’s split Democrats on the Hill and...
After using her nomination as a pawn on the political chessboard in Washington, the Senate finally voted today to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next U.S. Attorney General. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download...
Next week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding same-sex marriage. At The Williams Institute’s 14th Annual Update on sexual orientation and gender identity law and policy at UCLA, the only arguments were...
Indigenous people in Brazil’s Amazon region continue to suffer violence, intimidation and forced displacement from their lands — usually at the hands of interests tied to big business and development. To highlight the issue,...
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, bars health insurance companies from denying health coverage based on pre-existing conditions. The measure also requires most taxpayers to buy health insurance or pay a penalty at tax...
It’s been five years since an explosion on the BP-owned Deepwater Horizon oil rig led to the blowout of a deep water well in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in the largest marine oil...
White House and Senate leaders reach rare compromise to allow Iran negotiations to proceed Asylum-seeking mothers protest family detention from inside of for-profit facility in Texas Palestinian couple separated by Israeli policy; launch FB...
Asylum-seeking mothers held in detention with their children at a for-profit facility in South Texas have initiated a second protest fast and work stoppage calling for their release. The women have all passed what...
The White House and Congress reached a compromise this week on a bill giving the Senate more say about lifting sanctions as part of a nuclear deal with Iran. The measure, however, removes the...
Students at Harvard and Yale have joined other schools around the country in the past week as they step up their push for divestment of fossil fuel stocks from their universities’ multi-billion dollar endowment...
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