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The Iranian Hostage Crisis began on this day in 1969. As CNN reported last week, the International Emergency Economic Powers ...

A male Democratic New York C-SPAN caller wept on Monday as he reflected on President Donald Trump’s peacemaking between Israel and Hamas following his speech on the topic. Trump delivered a speech ...

The federal government shutdown dragged on Thursday after Republican and Democratic bills to reopen the government failed ...

The government shutdown will last at least until at least next week, as the Senate adjourned until Tuesday after another ...

The government shutdown has reached Day 29 and is the second-longest in history. Will the Senate vote today to reopen? What ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns previewed the upcoming summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South ...

WASHINGTON – A string of Americans frustrated by the government shutdown called into C-SPAN on Thursday, Oct. 9, to confront House Speaker Mike Johnson. In one particularly dramatic exchange, a woman ...

Updated on Nov. 3 at 9:22 a.m. Welcome to the Supreme Court’s November sitting. Starting today, there will be nine arguments ...

Tom Boggioni is a writer, born, raised and living in San Diego — where he attended San Diego State University. Prior to writing for Raw Story, he wrote for FireDogLake, blogged as TBogg, and worked in ...

No sooner had the ink dried on Donald Trump’s signing of a peace plan for the Middle East than “concerns” were raised that he will move on to some other subject that he feels requires his attention — ...