BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two car bombs killed seven Iraqi national guardsmen and a rocket barrage hit a police academy yesterday as insurgents kept up their offensive to subdue Iraq’s beleaguered security ...

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One of Oakland’s most sprawling homeless camps sits next to a Home Depot parking lot. We spent three months here. Days and nights. In sunshine and rain. We got to know dozens of the 100 or so people ...

(Allhiphop.com) – Hip-Hop group Slum Village is remaining resilient despite dealing with the sudden death of 35-year-old group member Titus “Baatin” Glover. Baatin was found dead on Saturday (August 1 ...

As cities in developing nations grow rapidly, they face the same challenges that Western ones did during the industrial era. Informal neighborhoods pop up, with housing that is cheap but overcrowded, ...

Each year, the first Monday of October marks World Habitat Day, which aims to reflect on the state of towns and cities, and on the right of all to adequate shelter. The share of people living in urban ...

Drug-addled streets are becoming more commonplace in major liberal U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Portland. In Seattle, scenes of addiction have spread to neighborhoods where ...

House occupant Divya, a cheerful personality, gave him a glimpse into her “tiny” but “happy” home, where they do “everything ...

The American revolution is back in fashion, though heaven knows why. After decades of scholarly and popular neglect, the Revolution -- the prologue to it, the war itself, its aftermath -- has been the ...

For the past fortnight, Russian radio listeners have been getting the Marxist lowdown on U.S. radio and TV. In a series grimly entitled “The Mouthpiece of American Reaction,” Soviet Announcer Lapin ...