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A Russian sumo wrestler once dubbed "the world's strongest kid," who weighed 210 pounds when he was just 6 years old, has died at the age of 21, according to a report. Dzhambulat Khatokhov became a heavyweight sensation ...

Part II of a 2-part essay in defense of Rabindranath Tagore and Jana Gana Mana. The first appeared in Countercurrents in 2003. With the emerging fundamentalist intolerance and bigotry extending its ominious tentacles acr...

The tagline is "Trump: He's What's For America," a riff on the beef industry's "Beef: It's What's For Dinner" slogan.

The FBI is still trying to determine a motive behind the Christmas Day explosion in downtown Nashville that injured at least eight people and damaged 40 buildings. Police have identified Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, as the ...

A disgraced Indiana school teacher got slammed with a four-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a student in his classroom when she was just 13 years old, according to a report. Eric Gerdes, 39, pleaded guilty in...

The senator's deal is criticized as a massive taxpayer-backed payoff to major campaign contributors.

A wild viral video shows a white man being smacked in the face with a can of Twisted Tea at an Ohio gas station after he repeatedly calls a black customer the n-word. The clip begins with the belligerent customer spewing...

Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist who went to Wuhan in February to report about the emerging coronavirus outbreak, was sentenced on Monday by a Chinese court to four years in prison after being charged with "picking fight...

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling out lawmakers from both parties who have spoken out against tweaking the COVID stimulus bill to raise the value of direct payments to eligible Americans from $600 to $2...

As a COVID-19 vaccine rolls out across the U.S., top malls are likely to bounce back in 2021 but those in trouble may close more quickly.       

Investigators believe the Nashville bomber acted alone in plotting the Christmas explosion.

Black Hills Energy was working Monday night to restore service to 3,500 customers after vandalism damaged natural gas lines in Aspen, Colorado.       

A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.

Ideally, if Democrats do their job up to and on Jan. 5, we will win both of Georgia's Senate seats, and secure a bare majority in both chambers of Congress.

When China first reported cases of coronavirus to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, it was described as a mysterious new strain of pneumonia. It didn't even have a name.

"Right now, we just aren't getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas," the president-elect said.

Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler both announced Tuesday that they support an effort to amend the recently passed omnibus spending bill to increase direct payments for Americans under a certain income leve...

Turkish prosecutors have issued a detention warrant against a Turkish businessman with links to Utah-based business executives who have pleaded guilty to a $511 million tax credit scheme in the United States

President-elect Joe Biden said that the Trump administration's plan to distribute Covid-19 vaccines across the country was falling "far behind" and promised his administration would focus on getting the vaccines to the A...

A move by Gov. DeSantis to prioritize immunization of those 65 and older lead to lines, confusion as counties and hospitals scramble to meet demand.       

The boards of elections in two Georgia counties targeted more than 4,000 registered voters ahead of the January 5 runoffs.

While corporate media is drumming up anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack that "threatens national security", Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far it looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq. On theAnalysis.new...