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Guaranteed health insurance for all combined with several federal policy options to achieve health care system savings could result in $1.5 trillion in reduced spending over 10 years in the United States, a new study shows.

A non-psychoactive, naturally naturally occurring compound in the cannabis plant called cannabidiol inhibits the activity of breast cancer cells “in vitro” and in animals, according to a California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (CPMCRI) study announced today.

Churches in the United States including St. Patrick's Cathedral and Trinity Church in New York City sell crucifixes made under horrific Sweatshop conditions in China, where workers, including young girls as young as 15, are forced to work 19 hour shifts seven days a week, a report by the National Labor Committee reveals.

The House Oversight Committee today requested the chairman of the controversial private military contractor Blackwater USA to testify before the Committee regarding the mission and performance of Blackwater and its affiliated companies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Timing of Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus' testimony the Congress is a cheap attempt by President George W. Bush and his administration to draw a non-existent link between Iraq and 9/11, families of the victims of the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks claimed today.

A White House initiative to support the President George W. Bush’s efforts to privatize Social Security cost United States taxpayers million of dollars, the Government Accountability Office found after an investigation that was delayed by the refusal of the White House to cooperate.

United States President George W. Bush is supplying high technology weapons to US allies in the "war on terr", and providing them with billions of dollars in military assistance despite unstable governments, deadly conflicts, and human rights abuses, an independent think tank reported today.

United States Department of Defense's research and development budget requests to Congress do not provide consistent, complete and accurate information, the Government Accountability Office reported today.

Congress was today urged to to address recent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that gave United States authorities sweeping powers to spy on American citizens, by those testifying at the House Judicial Committee hearing on warrantless surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

US soldiers are killing civilians with impunity in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Department of Defense is going to "unprecedented lengths" to suppress information about these war crimes, according to the nearly 10,000 pages of Pentagon documents made public by the American Civil Liberties Union.