A Hudson County man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Alaa Saadeh, 24, of West New York, New…
At least 14 patients and three doctors were killed by an air strike on a hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the charity, according to Doctors Without Borders. Among those killed in the Doctors Without Borders-supported al-Quds hospital was one of the…
Lax U.S. rules and real estate industry’s no-questions-asked approach make it easy for dodgy characters to funnel wealth through high-end Manhattan apartments. One day during Chen Shui-bian’s second term as Taiwan’s president, several people lugged what a witness described as…
By Kathleen Rogers On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans hit the streets to protest the environmental effects of more than 100 years of uncontrolled fossil-fueled industrial development. It was the first Earth Day. What was intended to be a…
By Hilke Schellmann An estimated 3.4 million people have been physically or economically displaced in the past decade by projects funded by the World Bank. The bank has regularly failed to protect the poor and vulnerable people it claims to…
A top Iraqi politician who was put in power by US taxpayers was among more than 100 elite world leaders identified in the Panama Papers investigation exposing how the offshore finance industry impacts lives around the world. Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite…
Climate change is a significant threat to the health of the American people, according to a scientific assessment that examines how global warming is already affecting human health and changes predicted in the future. The federal Global Change Research Program released its new assessment of a…
The justification for going to war in Iraq in March 2003, was based on a 93-page classified document that allegedly contained “specific information” on former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs he was accused…
The Panama Papers investigation has prompted a swift global response in the 24 hours since more than 100 media organizations began publishing and broadcasting stories, including official investigations opened around the world, mass protests in the streets of Iceland’s capital…
by Will Fitzgibbon One day during his presidential re-election campaign in September 1996, Bill Clinton walked into a room in Westin Crown Center hotel in Kansas City, Mo. At stake was a quarter-million dollars in campaign fundraising. Clinton turned to…