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Mid-level restaurants and hotels are floundering as luxury spending soars

Business is booming for both Barney's and Bargain Basement, but as middle-income workers continue to get hit by recessionary pres

Canada's most secretive intelligence agency, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), used the free wi-fi networks provided at one of the nation's largest airports to obtain the metadata contained in the electronic devices of passengers passing through the terminals which then allowed the agency to "track" the devices going forward.

Though Republicans tied themselves in knots and exposed their party's extensive internal rifts by offering four separate rebuttals to President Obama's State of the Union on Tuesday, a development that received less attention was the short response to the speech offered by recently-elected Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant.

Members of the West Virginia National Guard tested water samples across the Kanawha Valley after 10,000 gallons of coal processing chemicals spilled into the local water supply.The amount of chemicals spilled from a West Virginia coal processing plant into the Elk River is even greater than previously reported, according to a statement issued by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection late Monday.

A natural gas pipeline operated by Transcanada exploded and caught fire outside of Otterburne, Manitoba early Saturday. Though no injuries were reported, the incident highlights the safety concerns posed by many as the pipeline company awaits a White House decision on whether or not to permit the construction of the Transcanada-operated Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Speaking before a gathering of top oil and gas executives Tuesday, the President of top industry lobby group the American Petroleum Institute laid out the group's priorities for the upcoming year: support elected officials who will push for the passage of the Keystone XL pipeline.

As the holidays recede and millions of Americans look ahead to a year of slashed federal food aid and discontinued unemployment benefits, Wall Street bankers are preparing for a $92 billion windfall in end-of-the-year bonuses.

In what is being described as a win/win for the much maligned banking industry, nearly 50,000 people are calling on those bankers to donate that cash to the ten million Americans made homeless by the housing crisis.

The recommendations set forth by an internal government NSA review panel are nothing but "cosmetic changes" staged to "restore public confidence" in the U.S. government's spying activities, charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in an email exchange with Brazil's O Globo news station.

Despite pledging zero tolerance against overseas factories that scorn fair labor and safety practices, according to a New York Times investigation published Sunday, the United States federal government, "one of the world's biggest clothing buyers," spends over $1.5 billion a year purchasing items from reported sweatshops.

Following Big Oil's narrow victory over a grassroots initiative designed to block the construction of a tar sands export terminal, residents of South Portland, Maine are attempting to overrule that vote with a bid to outlaw the flow and processing of tar sands within city borders.

The Obama administration "systematically" delayed enacting a series of rules on health care and the environment ahead of the 2012 elections, The Washington Post reported Saturday based on documents and interviews obtained by the news agency.

Protest organizers estimate that employees will boycott over 1,500 locations on Friday, disrupting what many call the 'largest shopping day of the year' to bring awareness to the company's culture of low pay and intimidation.

Despite a greenwashed new image, Walmart is still one of the country's biggest polluters, guilty of externalizing the cost of their negligence on people and the environment, says a new report published Wednesday by the Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR).

Senator Elizabeth Warren once again slammed financial regulators in a speech Tuesday saying their complacency has allowed "Too Big to Fail" banks to continue to flourish five years after they sent the economy tumbling.

Less than a week after supplemental food assistance was slashed by $5 billion and as Congress debates deeper cuts to the federal food stamp program within a new five-year farm bill, a new report released Thursday highlights how billionaires continue to collect taxpayer-funded farm subsidies and may soon be eligible for even more.

"I’m here because you called. I’m here because I am a part of your history," notable civil rights activist and musical icon Harry Belafonte declared Friday to a crowd of hundreds of demonstrators inside the main rotunda of the Florida capitol building.

"I’m here because you called. I’m here because I am a part of your history," notable civil rights activist and musical icon Harry Belafonte declared Friday to a crowd of hundreds of demonstrators inside the main rotunda of the Florida capitol building.

Fires continue to burn in the small town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec —over twenty-four hours after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in the community's downtown, engulfing the area in flames and black smoke.

With many individuals still missing, rescuers have begun the process of sifting through embers searching for remains.

Rounding out his multi-state African tour Monday, US President Barack Obama pledged a new era of "partnership" with the continent, promising "an end to famine and a thriving African agricultural industry." However, critics and food sovereignty advocates—wary of such remarks—want to know who gets to "thrive" and at what cost.

When toxic wastewater spills in the woods and no one's there to see it, does it leave a mark? Or, rather, when the agency responsible for the property fails to report it, can it just go away?