Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own
Region: CubaWritten by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica President Obama yesterday formalized indefinite detention for dozens of men held at Guantanamo Bay and announced that the Pentagon would move ahead with military trials for a ha... more
Views: 1193U.S. Support for War Crimes Investigation of Libya Hinged on Exemption for Americans
Region: Libyan Arab JamahiriyaWritten by Marian Wang In an effort to hold Libya accountable [1] for its violent crackdown on protesters, the U.S. and other members of the United Nations Security Council voted in favor of a resolution [2] asking the In... more
Views: 855Why a Gruesome Pennsylvania Abortion Clinic Had Not Been Inspected for 17 Years
Region: Pennsylvania
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Views: 2462Congress to Investigate Pentagon Decision to Deny Coverage for Brain Injured Troops
Region: United States
By T. Christian Miller WASHINGTON, D.C.--A key congressional oversight committee announced today that it was opening an investigation into the basis of a decision by the Pentagon's health plan to deny a type of medical tr... more
Views: 1606Guantanamo As Prison and Courtroom: Is a White House Policy Unraveling or Coming Together?
Region: United States
By Dafna Linzer Last August, President Obama’s national security advisers, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met in the Whit... more
Views: 1459What Do 50 Cent, Carmen Electra & Shaquille O’Neal Have in Common? Touting Penny Stocks
Region: United States
Over the weekend, the popular rapper 50 Cent urged his 3.8 million Twitter followersto buy the stock of a microscopic company in Florida. The penny stock jumped 290 percent on Monday. The rapper, who owns 7.5 ... more
Views: 2162After ‘Ad Hoc’ Government Bailout, Citigroup Still Too Big to Fail, Watchdog Says
Region: United StatesThe government’s decision to bail out Citigroup during the financial crisis was made in a “strikingly ad hoc” manner—based on “gut instinct and fear of the unknown” and not on an... more
Views: 1533Opponents to Fracking Disclosure Take Big Money From Industry
Region: United States
Congress isn’t going to regulate hydraulic fracturing any time soon. But the Department of Interior might. For starters, Interior is mulling whether it should require drilling companies to disclose ... more
Views: 1631Dollars for Docs Payments Approach $300 Million
Region: United States
Today we’ve added another $13 million in payments to our Dollars for Docs databaseof drug-company spending on doctors and other health professionals. That brings the total to nearly $295 million. Pr... more
Views: 1896Gulf Spill Paymaster Kenneth Feinberg Acknowledges Problems, Outlines Fixes
Region: United States
As the damage claims process for the Gulf oil spill moves into its second phase--from issuing emergency payments to considering final claims--administrator Kenneth Feinberg yesterday unveiled a variety of improve... more
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