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Fast food workers across New York struck on Thursday of last week, demanding a pay rise and the right to join unions.

After more than 900 days in custody US army private Bradley Manning finally got to testify at his army pre-trial hearing in Maryland last week.

Barack Obama’s re-election is undoubtedly the best outcome for American capitalism.

"We are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation and as one people," said Barack Obama in his victory speech after winning his second term as US president.

Romney lost. Good. I’m relieved. I’m American, and I could have voted for Obama. I didn't. But I’m still relieved.

As the US presidential election approaches, both camps are drafting in volunteers to phone people and persuade them to vote on 6 November.

Barack Obama told the Democratic Party’s national convention that in the coming election, voters "face the clearest choice of any time in a generation."

Around 26,000 teachers and support workers in Chicago, US, walked out this Monday for the first time in 25 years.

In March 1928, Richard Mellon told a congressional committee in Washington DC that you could not mine coal without machine guns.

The US Supreme Court ruled last week that the healthcare reform passed two years ago—the Affordable Care Act—is constitutional.

Mitt RomneyUS Republican presidential candidate

There was a moment, shortly after the primaries in South Carolina and just before Florida, when the Republicans hit the crest of absurdity.