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Together with a few sister big box stores (Target, Best Buy, and Home Depot), Wal-Mart accounts for roughly 50% of Americas much vaunted productivity growth edge over Europe during the last decade. Fifty percent!...

“Nearly five years on, there is no rule of law, no accountability. The Afghans know it is all a charade, and they see us as not only complicit but actively involved. You cannot fight...

Should all of [Greenland’s] ice sheet ever thaw, the meltwater could raise sea level 21 feet and swamp the world’s coastal cities, home to a billion people … the glaciers of Greenland are melting...

A fundamentalist Muslim whom the U.S. suspects of collaborating with Al Qaeda terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamist militia that has seized control of [Mogadishu]. The militia … appointed...

At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion … a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration … Proportionately, it is equivalent to 570,000 Americans being killed...

Petaluma animal control workers expected to find a horde of cats when they knocked on the door of a 67-year-old man whose neighbor complained of stench … About 1,000 pet rats — ranging from...

In his online blog, Townshend described how a boy and girl, both aged 16, engage in a sex act. One not-so-graphic part read: “She had splendid breasts for such an elfin girl: loose, low...

After a comprehensive review of climate change data, the [US]’s preeminent scientific body found that average temperatures on Earth had risen by about 1 degree over the last century, a development that “is unprecedented...

An off-target Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip killed a pregnant woman and her brother Wednesday and wounded at least 15 other civilians, including three children … A 1-year-old child was also critically...

Toxoplasma gondii looks as if it ought to be the most famous parasite on earth. This single-celled pathogen infects over half the world’s population, including an estimated 50 million Americans. Each of Toxoplasma’s victims...