Confessed Terrorist Tried To Help U.S. Track Down Other Terrorists
Region: United StatesBy Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica CHICAGO—Confessed terrorist David Coleman Headley was so eager to cooperate after his 2009 arrest that he worked with FBI agents to try to engineer the capture of a suspected... more
Views: 1456Supervisors and Sexual Harassment: The Law’s Murkier Than You Think
Region: United StatesBy Marian Wang, ProPublica The news about both Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger has brought renewed attention to what seems like a myriad of past allegations [1] of sexual harassment [2] by the two polit... more
Views: 1695Schwarzenegger and DSK: When Powerful Men Cross Lines
Region: United StatesBy Tracy Weber , ProPublica The week’s news about the sexual conduct of politically powerful men gives me a queasy feeling of déjà vu. As the French agonize over whether Dominique Strauss-Ka... more
Views: 1612The Basics Behind the Debt Limit Debate: More Partisan Than Practical?
Region: United StatesBy Marian Wang, ProPublica As you may have heard, the federal government hit its $14.3 trillion debt limit yesterday—something the Treasury has been warning Congress about for months. There are a lot... more
Views: 1394Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
Region: United StatesBy Michael Grabell , ProPublica The Transportation Security Administration says its full-body X-ray scanners are safe and that radiation from a scan is equivalent to what's received in about two minutes ... more
Views: 1451Despite Rhetoric, Cutting Oil Subsidies Would Have Little Effect on Gas Prices
Region: United StatesBy Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Democrats renewed their push to cut oil subsidies this week, saying high gasoline prices and big revenues for oil and gas companies make this as good a time as any [1] to eliminat... more
Views: 1220Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking
Region: United StatesBy Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on f... more
Views: 1433Role of Torture in Finding Bin Laden: What We Actually Know
Region: United StatesBy Marian Wang, ProPublica If you’ve been following the latest news on the U.S. operation against Osama bin Laden, you’ve probably read a lot of conflicting accounts. There have been questions about ... more
Views: 1587Discovery of Bin Laden Hideout Spotlights Concerns About Pakistan’s Intelligence Service
Region: PakistanBy Sebastian Rotella , ProPublica The killing of Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani city dominated by the military has spotlighted a conundrum that Western counterterror agencies have grappled with for years: Is Pak... more
Views: 1318Latest Afghan Attacks Highlight Challenges of Training, Vetting Afghan Security Forces
Region: AfghanistanBy Marian Wang, ProPublica The news out of Afghanistan seems to be almost all doom and gloom: 8 NATO soldiers and one civilian [1] were killed today by a veteran Afghan army pilot who reportedly turned on his tr... more
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