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For the third night and despite bitter cold across much of the country, thousands of demonstrators marched in New York, Chicago, Washington and other cities Friday, protesting a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer involved in the death of an unarmed black man on...

President Obama first grabbed national attention with a keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that portrayed America the way most Americans want to see it, as a unified entity, regardless of its occasional squabbles.

For thousands of farm laborers south of the border, the boom in agricultural exports is a story of exploitation and extreme hardship. On Sunday, read the first story in our four-part series "Product of Mexico."

Two decades after the U.S. began to scale back its nuclear forces in the aftermath of the Cold War, a number of military strategists, scientists and congressional leaders are calling for a new generation of hydrogen bombs.

Recalling his own encounters with police as a young black man, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. has struggled for five years to toughen limits on racial profiling by law enforcement agencies.

President Obama invited as many as 5 million immigrants and international visitors Thursday to openly live and work in the U.S., a controversial, unilateral demonstration of his power that signaled a new phase of activism for the remainder of his presidency.