Newt Gingrich earned some $600,000 as a consultant to a major ethanol lobbying group, not the $312,500 that the organization, called Growth Energy, disclosed last spring.
Gingrich earned twice as much as previously disclosed from ethanol lobbying group
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The weekly watchdog: Dec. 12 - Dec. 16
Jesus Sosa Mancia, a CKD patient in Bajo Lempa, El Salvador, during a home visit by a medical team from the national health ministry.
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Mercury falling: Groundbreaking power plant emissions rule imminent
A fisherman walks near Lake Champlain, N.Y., where mercury contamination has prompted the state to issue advisories against eating some fish.
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EPA allowed unsafe handling of asbestos, IG says
An unprotected worker sprays an asbestos-filled building prior to demolition at Fort Chaffee, Ark.
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FACT CHECK: Final fight for GOP in Iowa
Republican presidential candidates from left, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., prepare for a debate in Sioux City, Iowa.
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FACT CHECK: White House brings partisan slant into payroll tax explainer
The White House misleadingly suggests that the Republicans’ plan to pay for a payroll tax cut would result in “forcing cuts to things like education and medical research.” The bill passed by House Republicans mentions no such cuts. And while the bill may or may not require cuts to discretionary spending, there’s no reason those cuts would have to come from popular programs like education or medical research.The White House’s nearly six-minute “white board” video, released on Dec.
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Minor offenders, major consequences
Kirk Gunderson of Onalaska, Wis., hanged himself in the La Crosse County jail in 2005, when he was 17.
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Fact or fiction?
President Obama speaks at a rally for health care reform at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.
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EPA releases long-awaited power plant air toxics rule
NRG Energy's W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station, in Thompsons, Texas.
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Bank of America to pay record settlement over Countrywide abuses
Bank of America Corp's headquarters building.
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IMPACT: Agency task force conducting ‘top-to-bottom review’ of ‘model workplaces’ program
The Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C., which is home to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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School arrests in Connecticut bring new scrutiny, reforms
As a fifth grader at a New Haven magnet school in 2009, Jacob was watching a lot of "Ed, Edd n Eddy" shows on TV — a slapstick cartoon that features adolescent equivalents of the Three Stooges.
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Courts debate validity of Indian-owned payday lenders
The exterior of Miami Nation Enterprises, which has an online payday lending business that has sovereign status beyond the reach of state regulators.
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Tea Party ‘super PAC’ going after Sen. Orrin Hatch
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, right, accompanied by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., center, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., left. Hatch says a tax on medical devices will increase insurance premiums and the cost of care.
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International Consortium Adds 41 Investigative Journalists
Washington, D.C. – December 20, 2011 -- The Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 41 new members to its roster, expanding the network’s reach to 158 news professionals working on an array of media platforms in 61 countries.
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Billionaire backer may open wallet for Gingrich but bring unwanted baggage
Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp, center, with his wife Miriam Adelson look the the construction model of a new hotel on the Cotai Strip in Macau.
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California school discipline numbers need scrutiny
Did schools in Sacramento County, California, really suspend 6,645 students last year for having a firearm at school? What about Alameda County, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where raw numbers fed into a state database had 6,594 kids suspended for packing a gun?
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Tyler joins Gingrich PAC, big ad buy imminent
Winning Our Future, the super PAC recently set up to boost Newt Gingrich’s campaign, has recruited long time Gingrich aide Rick Tyler to play key roles including some fundraising.Insiders say the PAC is crucial to offsetting the battering that’s been inflicted on Gingrich from negative ads including a multi-million dollar barrage in Iowa run by Restore our Future, the super PAC backing Mitt Romney.Tyler, who was press secretary for Gingrich’s campaign but left after a few months, told iWatch New
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Navy accounting remains in shambles
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey take part in a news conference at the Pentagon.
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ANALYSIS: Awards for health care reform wimpery and obfuscation
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., presents a Republican budget plan to overhaul Medicare benefits for the elderly.
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