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It seemed to herald the inevitability of democracy, but the forces at play in 1989 weren't universal T o Americans, the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this week - and the Iron Curtain with it - was more than a big move on... [read full story]
Washington Post Durbin touts Thomson plan's benefits at tour Rockford Register Star US Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., talks to Thomson resident Brooklynn Boysen on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, about her concerns of turning the Thomson...
WASHINGTON--As Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Saturday leads a tour of the nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center--a top Obama White House contender to house Guantanamo detainees--the White House released its first detailed...
The endless tangle of questions about bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and has obsessively fascinated, if not...
Below is the CIA's tabulation of gross domestic product per capita by country, ranked from highest to lowest. First note that the very richest countries are tax dodges or oil sheikdoms. Ireland and Switzerland are a middle case...
