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Colorado Flood Towns May Come Back Less Diverse

The disaster hit rich and poor alike, but some residents will be able to afford to wait and rebuild, while others will not.

LYONS, Colo. — The storms that raged through the Rocky Mountain foothills instantly remade the landscape and disrupted thousands of lives. They may have also changed the character of the funky mountain hamlets that dot the Front Range. The disaster hit rich and poor alike, but some residents will be able to afford to wait and rebuild, while

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Bangladesh: Workers Set Factories Ablaze Demanding Decent Wages

Bangladesh swept by a third day of protests that leaves nearly 150 injured.

Andrea Germanos
Par Andrea Germanos

Up to 200,000 garment factory workers sustained a third day of protests in Bangladesh on Monday, forcing hundreds of factories to close as the workers' call for a better minimum wage was met with teargas and rubber bullets from police. Protests were held in the capital of Dhaka and surrounding areas, home to hundreds offactories that produce

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Counter-Revolution Continues As Egyptian Court Bans Muslim Brotherhood

‘It’s going to get more revolutionary,’ says Brotherhood supporter.

Jacob Chamberlain
Par Jacob Chamberlain

An Egyptian court officially banned the Muslim Brotherhood from all operations across the country including a freeze on all of the organization's assets and a ban on affiliated groups. "The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities that it participates in and any

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In Africa, Al Qaeda Finds New Life

Local militants groups are hitching onto Al Qaeda’s ideology, giving it new theaters of operation.

Tristan McConnell
Par Tristan McConnell

NAIROBI, Kenya — Al Qaeda-inspired militancy is on the rise in Africa as disparate groups with local grievances find common cause in the global terror group’s tactics and ideology and, in turn, offer it new theaters of operation. Military pressure, drone strikes and the assassination of Osama bin Laden have diminished Al Qaeda globally, leaving

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Small Town In North Dakota Fends Off Development Of White Supremacist Community

Anti-racist demonstrators turned out to protest a town hall meeting discussing using the tiny town as a base for white supremacist ideology.

Jo Erickson
Par Jo Erickson

The quiet town of Leith, N.D. was at the center of a controversy on Sunday. Anti-racist activists and protesters rallied against the news that Jeff Schoep, head of neo-Nazi group the American National Socialist Movement, and his followers planned to hold a town hall meeting where they would discuss the possibility of using the small town as a new

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Drought Of STEM Graduates May Spell Doom For The American Economy

There are more job openings in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields than there are U.S. college grads with those skills.

Frederick Reese
Par Frederick Reese

Higher education in the United States is in a state of crisis. On the obvious end of the conundrum is the student debt bubble -- which at over $1 trillion in outstanding student loans and with a 90-day delinquency rate of over 11 percent -- is showing signs of bursting any day. As reported by Reuters, JPMorgan Chase, in a move reminiscent of the

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