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How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Kim Barker, Justin Elliott - May. 17 (Investigative Report) - The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.

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Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 14 (News Report) - The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtained a trove of journalists’ phone records in what its chief executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion." The Obama administration seized records for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford, Connecticut, and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery. More than 100 reporters work in the offices. The records were from April and May of 2012

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FDA Approved New Drug Despite Ongoing Investigation of Lab Misconduct

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Charles Seife, Rob Garver - Apr. 22 (Investigative Report) - The drug is a generic version of Tussionex, which combines a long-acting narcotic cough suppressant with an anti-allergy medication. Manufactured by TrisPharma, the drug has a tongue-twisting chemical name: hydrocodone polistirex/chlorpheniraminepolistir

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Organization Releases 1.7 Million U.S. Diplomatic Records Comprising 'The Kissinger Cables'

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Adam Goldberg - Apr. 08 (News Report) - The trove of more than 1.7 million documents contains "205,901 records relating to former US Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger." The massive data collection is part of the launch of the WikiLeaks Public Library of US Diplomacy, or PlusD, which a press release describes as holding "the world's largest searchable collection of United States confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications."

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Who Polices Prosecutors Who Abuse Their Authority? Usually Nobody

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Joaquin Sapien, Sergio Hernandez - Apr. 03 (Investigative Report) - Bennett, a two-time felon, was eventually captured, convicted of murder, and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. But Bennett never served anywhere near that sentence. He has, in fact, been free since 2008 because Claude Stuart, the former Queens ass

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How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Liz Day - Mar. 26 (Investigative Report) - It's already a reality in Denmark, Sweden and Spain. The government-prepared return would estimate your taxes using information your employer and bank already send it. Advocates say tens of millions of taxpayers could use such a system each year, saving

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‘Dirty War’ Questions for Pope Francis

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Mar. 14 (Investigative Report) - The U.S. “news” networks bubbled with excitement over the selection of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to be Pope Francis I. But there was silence on the obvious question that should be asked about any senior cleric from Argentina: What was Bergoglio doing during the “dirty war,”

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Study Demolishes the Myth That U.S. Workers Lack Skills

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

In These Times - By Roger Bybee - Feb. 27 (Special Report) - in a study released this week called “The Skills Gap and Unemployment in Wisconsin: Separating Fact From Fiction,” urbanologist Marc Levine, a professor of history and economic development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, applies a data-laden sledgehammer to this notion. And while Levine’s report focused primarily on Wisconsin, his critique of the “skills gap” notion has national implications.

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Shocking: Reporting Factory Farm Abuses to be Considered "Act of Terrorism" If New Laws Pass

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins - Jan. 26 (News) - How do you keep consumers in the dark about the horrors of factory farms? By making it an “act of terrorism” for anyone to investigate animal cruelty, food safety or environmental violations on the corporate-controlled farms that produce the bulk of our meat, eggs and dairy products. And who better to write the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act, designed to protect Big Ag and Big Energy, than the lawyers on the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force at the corporate-funded and infamous American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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For Obama, More Prose than Poetry in Second Inaugural

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

ProPublica - By Richard Tofel - Jan. 21 (News Analysis) - In 2009, in the flush of his first election, Barack Obama declared in his inaugural address that, “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.” Today, perhaps chastened by the trials of governing and the difficulty of gaining election a second time, he did not so much acknowledge that the cynics of 2009 had been right as devote himself to trying, one more time, to move the ground beneath them.

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Why 58 Representatives Who Voted for Hurricane Katrina Aid Voted Against Aid for Sandy

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

ProPublica - By Theodoric Meyer - Jan. 18 (News Analysis) - When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, Congress passed two relief bills almost unanimously. But when it comes to Hurricane Sandy, some in Congress seem to have had a change of heart.

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Journalist and crew escape captors in Syria

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Dec. 18 (News Report) - More than a dozen heavily armed gunmen had kidnapped and held NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days inside Syria, keeping them blindfolded and tied up. They finally escaped unharmed during a firefight between their captors and anti-regime rebels on Monday.

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