From unopened shampoo to unworn clothes, perfectly good products end up in dumpsters and landfill sites. Why? The Current went dumpster diving with a seasoned scavenger to find out.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, most of Cuba's food supplies went with it. To stave off severe malnutrition the people of the capital, Havana, found an imaginative answer: urban gardening. That's now seen as a possible blueprint for the survival…

By Rebecca M. Westphal In the middle of the year, we Venezuelans received a visit from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michel Bachelet, on the occasion of meeting with the different poli…

“The history of America is one of brutal mass slaughter.”

An Alameda County judge delayed a decision Monday on the fate of four homeless mothers who have moved their families into a vacant Oakland house without the owner's permission.

The new troops are ordered to serve as a response to threats throughout the region in the wake of Soleimani's death.

The evidence is undeniable. The U.S. sanctions are seriously destroying Iran’s health infrastructure and are leading to immediate deaths and suffering of the Iranian population.

By Joe O’Ceallaigh CHICAGO: On Thursday, January 2nd, Thirty year old father Mariano Ocon Jr., was murdered after a traffic stop on the city’s Northwest side in the Belmont Cragin neigh…

"But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the

According to documents obtained by Rep. Ted Deutch's office, more than 4,500 sexual abuse complaints were reported over the past four years

October 31 - Ongoing: At least five asylum seekers from India have been force-fed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after refusing to eat for almost two months, says the immigrant-advocate group Freedom for Immigrants.

For four decades a Spanish village and its remarkable mayor have expropriated and collectivised land, running their socialist project as a giant co-operative, where everyone toils in common for the

Almond pollination can wipe out billions of bees in a matter of months.

Iraqi Communists called for the international community to respect national sovereignty yesterday, warning against their country being used as an arena for war between the U.S. and Iran. In a statement issued in response to Iran’s retaliatory missile attack…

By Lautaro RivaraThe crisis in Haiti is the most extensive, radical, and unknown of all those that are currently breaking out in Latin American and the Caribbean. Since July 2018 Haiti has been in a state of permanent popular insurrection, with peaks of massive…

An Alameda County judge ordered four homeless mothers, who have moved their families into a vacant Oakland house without the owner's permission, to be evicted within the next five days.

The State Department warned that the U.S. could shut down Iraq’s access to the country’s central bank account held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a move that could jolt Iraq’s already shaky economy, Iraqi officials said.

 January 17, 2020 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided nearly $467 million in “humanitarian aid” to the Venezuelan opposition since 2017, the agency acknow…

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The rideshare giants claim that it was an algorithmic mistake. But automation is no excuse for exploitation.