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Why the FDA doesn't really know what's in your food
Rebecca Fattell was enjoying breakfast at a hotel in Berlin last summer when, after a few bites of a roll, her mouth started to itch, her gums started to hurt and before long, hives covered her...
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Food safety scientists have ties to Big Tobacco
Joseph Borzelleca has been evaluating the safety of food additives longer than pretty much anyone else in the business. The 84-year-old toxicologist, who credits his career to Italian parents who...
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U.S. House rolls back safeguards for mobile-home buyers
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to roll back safeguards aimed at protecting mobile-home buyers from predatory sales tactics and high-interest loans.The bill passed with strong support from Republicans,...
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Consumer group: Federal food additive safety process is illegal
The Center for Science in the Public Interest today charged that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s process for overseeing food additives is illegal.“Consumers are being exposed to potentially...
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Virginia tops a shameful national record
"He slammed me down, and then he handcuffed me.”That’s a quote from an 11-year-old black child with autism in a story by our Juvenile Justice and all-around ace reporter Susan Ferriss. In a period when...
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How the World Bank breaks its promise to protect the poor
For more than three decades, the World Bank has maintained a set of “safeguard” policies that it claims have brought about a more humane and democratic system of economic development.Governments that...
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Treasury's no-bid deals for banks get flak on Capitol Hill
The Treasury Department’s practice of offering billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to banks for government services is drawing flak on Capitol Hill.Several lawmakers are separately criticizing the...
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Why nobody knows what's really going into your food
Video transcript:In 2008, when an Australian food manufacturer wanted the US federal government’s stamp of approval on the company’s new ingredients, regulators said no. But go inside many American...
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Insurers backed Obamacare, then undermined it. Now they're profiting from it
Anyone who still thinks the Affordable Care Act was a “government takeover of health care” should consider this headline from the news pages of last Thursday’s Investor’s Business Daily:UnitedHealth...
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Gingrich campaign pays IRS debt
Newt Gingrich is once again square with the tax man, his 2012 presidential campaign having finally paid off a lingering debt with the Internal Revenue Service.The "Newt 2012" committee had owed the IRS...
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Joint reporting project on the struggle for asylum in America wins award
A Center for Public Integrity project with KQED Radio’s “The California Report” and Public Radio International’s “The World” on the life and death struggle for asylum in America has been awarded the...
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Signs of hope for 'dual-status' kids
This story was reported by Heidi Benson for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.SAN JOSE, Calif. — At eight, Marco had spent most of his life in the child welfare system. When an uncle took him...
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Campaign finance system is broken says GOP super-lawyer Jim Bopp
For decades, conservative attorney Jim Bopp has fought on the front lines of a regulatory war over how political campaigns are financed.As a staunch proponent of deregulation, Bopp has argued before...
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Exposing the additives in your food. Showing how schools send students to court. Revealing how mobile home mortgages trap the poor.These are just a few of the recent investigations the Center for...
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Hearing airs charges that states took grant money while violating laws
At a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, federal employees and child advocates argued that states have been allowed to take juvenile-justice grant money while violating laws against...
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Job-related deaths among Latino, contract workers rose in 2013
One hundred eighty work-related deaths in 2013 were added to the federal government’s official tally Wednesday, updating preliminary numbers released last fall.The corrected numbers from the U.S....
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Plant flares could pump out more pollution than previously thought
A new method of estimating air pollution from flares at refineries and chemical plants, released under court order by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week, could mean that earlier tallies...
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More whistleblowers allege health plan overcharges
Privately run Medicare plans, fresh off a major lobbying victory that reversed proposed budget cuts, face new scrutiny from government investigators and “whistleblowers” who allege plans have...
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The projected cost of the government's most expensive nonproliferation effort...
A U.S. effort to dispose of 34 tons of surplus plutonium from scrapped nuclear weapons has been long been stymied by cost overruns and technical problems. But now it seems the challenges to proceeding...
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Fracking hearing airs claims about conflicts of interest, ‘misinformation’
A congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing waded into the highly charged debate over the oil and gas extraction process Thursday, with each side accusing the other of misleading the public....
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