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Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

FOLLOW-UP! TYPHOON WIPHA SLASHED JAPAN ON WEDNESDAY Wipha slashed Japan with fear over further damage in crippled nuclear plant TOKYO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) — Japan was lashed by a powerful typhoon Wednesday which claimed the lives of at least 17...

Palestinian family left homeless after Israeli forces occupy home as military post BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 14 Aug — Israeli forces expelled a Palestinian family of 10 from their home in the village of Harmala in the southern occupied West Bank Saturday evening...

Click here for reuse options! The decline of the white working class is a key part of the story. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right By Arlie Russell Hochschild New Press Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and...

Hurricane Rita may have caused more harm to rigs and platforms than any Gulf coast of florida storm, even its formidable predecessor Katrina, oil and gas analysts said on Wednesday.The double-whammy of the hurricanes has already cost the Gulf almost...