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By Andrea Germanos Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaking at George Mason University on Wednesday.  (Image: screengrab/BernieSanders.com) Bernie Sanders on Wednesday evening slammed U.S. drug policy and called for the…

Forget retirement worries: once a fat cat, always a fat cat. The top 100 chief executive are sitting on pension pots worth $4.9bn (£3.2bn) – equal to the total retirement…

By NORIMITSU ONISHI   JOHANNESBURG — President Jacob G. Zuma agreed on Friday to freeze tuition fees at South Africa’s public universities, yielding to widening protests by students who streamed…

By Bobby Umar On Oct. 19, 2015, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau won the Canadian federal election with a historic majority win. What was most remarkable about the…

Above: People listen to speeches during the Justice or Else! rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC on October 10, 2015 (AFP Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds) Twenty years after the Million Man…

By Julia Craven  WASHINGTON — In July 2013, Opal Tometi walked out of a New York movie theater. She had just finished watching Fruitvale Station, a film documenting the lead-up…

Cameron … of great significance are the actions that Britain took to wipe slavery off the high seas and off the planet. British Prime Minister David Cameron has told Jamaican…

By John Nichols Elizabeth Warren speaking at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Elizabeth Warren is not the leader of the Democratic Party in any formal sense. She is not the…

Sunday | September 27, 2015 British Prime Minister, David Cameron. He is expected to address the Jamaican Parliament on Wednesday morning at 8.25. The chairman of CARICOM’s Reparation Commission, Sir Hilary…