Stories by Alex Kane

As the hunger strike grows, the U.S. is sending more medical personnel to help force-feed the prisoners. Here are some of the facts you should know about the protest and the prison camp.

The teens died after they attended a camp meant to make them more conventionally masculine.

The police investigated the activist on charges relating to marijuana trafficking, which she vehemently denies.

Bulletproof backpacks, ballistic safety vests and ballistic shields disguised as whiteboards are cropping up in schools around the country.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can't stop politicizing the Boston Marathon bombings.

A new poll shows that President George W. Bush’s reputation has a chance of being rehabilitated.

19-year-old American citizen Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, has not been read his Miranda rights.

Right-wing figures are predictably exploiting the aftermath of the attack on the Boston Marathon.

New Orleans-born Mohammed Khalek was taken from his home by eight rifle-toting Israeli soldiers.

Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel's harrowing story was published today in the New York Times.

Three women testified that William Blakely, the former vice mayor of Mount Carmel, Tennessee, honked at them and then masturbated while behind the wheel.

A four-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed the wife of a deputy sheriff in Tennessee.

The U.S. assassinated a Pakistani tribal leader in exchange for airspace to conduct strikes on America’s own targets.

Does the Aryan Brotherhood have anything to do with the killings of two Texas officials and a state prison chief in Colorado?

Despite Republican "rebranding" efforts, the party continues to prove why it doesn't appeal to all Americans.

The president promptly set the tenor of his trip in his first speech, where he did not mention the word Palestine or Palestinian.

The Obama administration is using its favored tools of war: drones, small contingents of troops and intelligence-sharing with allies.

A press freedom organization has published audio allowing Americans to listen to why Bradley Manning leaked thousands of documents.

A top British health official said bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a “catastrophic” health risk to patients.