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WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 – Today, in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chairman Patrick Leahy brought up an amendment to allow an American citizen's foreign-born same-sex spouse the ability to become a citizen, just as straight couples are currently al...

DALLAS, TX, May 21, 2013 - The Dream Action Coalition lauds the effort of senate judiciary committee chairman Patrick Leahy to provide a space for republicans and democrats to improve the "gang of 8"'s immigration bill. From keeping a path to citizens...

May 21, 2013 - Statement by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLAAD, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, United We Dream and Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project, Lambda Legal, Equality Federation and the National Center for Transgender Equality...

May 17, 2013 - One of the world's leading climate scientists Dr James Hansen has warned British MPs that exploiting the tar sands and oil shale would make the problem of climate change "unsolvable". He was giving evidence as part of his tour of Europe...

May 20, 2013 - As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation's "competitiveness" — while shelteri...

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May 15, 2013 - At last, some excellent economic news for folks long-mired in the stagnant labor market. "Jobs Spring Back," exclaimed a typical headline on recent reports that 165,000 private-sector jobs were added in April. Wow — the thunderous, th...

May 16, 2013 - Six months into a second term and the Obama White House is on the defensive and floundering: Benghazi, the IRS's investigations of right-wing groups, the Justice Department's snooping into journalists' phone records, Obamacare behind sch...

May 16, 2013 - An important peer-reviewed study was published today by John Cook et al. in the journal Environmental Research Letters. John Cook runs the well-known Skeptical Science website that rebuts global warming misinformation. His new research o...

May 14, 2013 - Just two decades ago, most of the Arctic Ocean was covered in ice all year long. But climate change has caused the Arctic to heat up twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and the region is rapidly losing its natural protective layer o...