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Bush super PAC the biggest loser in ad wars
For the past six months, political TV ads have extolled the virtues of presidential hopefuls, tore down opponents and in one instance, set pastoral scenes to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel. So, which...
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Civil Rights Commission to hold hearing on environmental justice
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights plans to continue its probe Friday into the Obama administration's work on environmental justice, including efforts to enforce civil rights law, the subject of a...
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Washington state moves to protect mobile-home buyers
Washington state officials want to find ways to protect consumers from abusive sales and lending practices in the mobile-home industry.The effort was sparked by a recent investigation by The Seattle...
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Residents of minority communities decry dumping of toxic coal ash
Evoking the contaminated-water crisis in Flint, Michigan, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights showed concern and compassion Friday for residents of polluted communities who maintain they are victims of...
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Meet the ‘rented white coats’ who defend toxic chemicals
BELLEVUE, Ohio — At 2:15 in the morning, an insomniac corporate defense lawyer in San Francisco finished crafting a “revolutionary” scientific theory.Now Evan Nelson of the law firm Tucker Ellis &...
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Virginia bills would put limits on role of police in schools
Virginia legislators are debating bills this week that would limit the role of school cops and prohibit charging K-12 students with “disorderly conduct” — a reaction to Center stories on unusually...
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Stealth Christie group attacks Rubio ahead of New Hampshire primary
Update, Feb. 9, 2016, 2:20 p.m.: This article has been updated to note that Republican presidential candidate John Kasich has also been targeted by negative mailers from America Needs Leadership.As New...
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Obama’s budget would kill costly plutonium disposition project
For the second time, the Obama administration has proposed to put a stake through the heart of a huge nuclear nonproliferation project in South Carolina that Congress just won’t let die, despite...
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FEC marked for modest budget boost
President Barack Obama wants the Federal Election Commission to get a modest budget boost.The White House's fiscal year 2017 budget proposal calls for the FEC, an agency that's recently suffered from...
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Will Jeb Bush's TV blitz add up?
Money can’t buy happiness, and in New Hampshire, it might not buy enough votes for some struggling presidential candidates, either.Chief among them: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.For months, Bush and...
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About 'Science for Sale'
“Science is the father of knowledge,” Hippocrates famously wrote, “but opinion breeds ignorance.”Nearly 2 ½ millennia after the father of Western medicine offered that insight, science and opinion have...
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Making a cancer cluster disappear
TEXAS CITY, Texas — It began with a headache; then came shaking of the hands. Leuvell Malone’s wife noticed unusual behavior. He struggled to button his shirt straight and crashed the car into the...
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Former race-car driver Scott Tucker arrested on racketeering charges
Former race-car driver Scott Tucker was arrested by federal agents today on racketeering charges related to his online payday lending operations that court documents say generated more than $2...
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Here are the interests lobbying in every statehouse
Yue Qiuhttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/yue-qiuBen Wiederhttp://www.publicintegrity.org/authors/ben-wiederChris...
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Amid federal gridlock, lobbying rises in the states
Debbie Mann can barely afford the drug that banishes the stabbing pain rheumatoid arthritis causes in her joints. Although Medicare helps cut the $40,000-per-year list price for prescription Enbrel,...
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Commentary: What it takes to buy the president
Half a century ago, journalist Joe McGinniss authored The Selling of the President, a brilliant exposé about the unabashed marketing of successful 1968 presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon. The...
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Ford spent $40 million to reshape asbestos science
In 2001, toxicologist Dennis Paustenbach got a phone call from a lawyer for Ford Motor Company.The lawyer, Darrell Grams, explained that Ford had been losing lawsuits filed by former auto mechanics...
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Many ex-felons don’t know they can get their right to vote restored
This story was reported by Sarah Barr for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.RICHMOND, Virginia — On a Tuesday afternoon in December, Richard Walker stood on the corner outside the city’s social...
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What do the possible Supreme Court nominees have in their wallets?
The federal appellate judges mentioned as possible replacements for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia have generally kept financially conservative profiles, according to a Center for Public...
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Brokers of junk science?
Hardbound volumes of Critical Reviews in Toxicology and Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology spanning decades are shelved at the National Library of Medicine’s subterranean archives — the world’s...
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