Daily Disclosure: Olympic ads accuse Romney of outsourcing jobs
Getting into the spirit of the Olympics, Priorities USA Action, a pro-President Barack Obama super PAC, released “Romney’s Gold” Wednesday, blasting the former Massachusetts governor’s tenure with Bain...
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RGA 2nd quarter fundraising
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View ArticleMillion-dollar donation in Indiana race may skirt limits on corporate giving
The RGA Right Direction PAC is a Washington, D.C.-based super PAC, registered with federal regulators to make independent expenditures supporting or opposing candidates. So what is it doing giving $1...
View ArticlePro-Romney super PAC donor part of Olympic scandal
New Jersey-based Jet Set Sports is among the sponsors of the U.S. Olympic team. It could also be described as a corporate sponsor of Republican Mitt Romney’s candidacy.It’s a sponsorship that comes...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Republicans run with out-of-context Obama quote
Republicans and conservative super PACs have pounced on President Barack Obama’s July 13 comment at an event in Virginia: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.”Thursday’s ad from American...
View ArticleLandmark criminal case against UCLA professor in worker death may end Friday
Four days after Christmas 2008, UCLA research associate Sheri Sangji caught fire. She was performing an experiment in a university laboratory and accidentally pulled the plunger out of a syringe...
View ArticleTragic lab accident kills young worker
The fume hood in the UCLA Molecular Sciences Building in which Sheri Sangji was working on Dec. 29, 2008.
View ArticleTexas Senate race attracts $13 million in super PAC spending
Tuesday’s Republican runoff for U.S. Senate in Texas is the most expensive congressional race this election, thanks largely to super PACs supporting the underdog tea party candidate over the...
View ArticleOfficials turn to cheaper detectors to find a terrorist's nuclear materials
Federal officials in charge of detecting dangerous nuclear materials charted a new strategy at a House hearing on July 26, in the aftermath of the government’s failed attempt to build large, advanced...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: U.S. Chamber drops $5.9 million on ad blitz
In an unprecedented ad blitz, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent $5.9 million on a series of attack ads against seven Democratic candidates and one independent candidate in key Senate races, according...
View ArticleParts of Pa. law favored by frackers overturned
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court overturned parts of the state’s controversial Act 13 on Thursday, returning zoning authority over natural gas drilling to the municipalities and townships that had...
View ArticleLandmark worker death case continues against UCLA chemistry professor
LOS ANGELES — Sheri Sangji is on fire. The 23-year-old research associate, a Pomona College graduate raised in Pakistan, has accidentally pulled the plunger out of a syringe while conducting an...
View ArticleLobbyists for General Dynamics who passed through the revolving door
Lobbyists for General Dynamics who passed through the revolving door
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The Army tank that could not be stopped
The M1 Abrams tank has survived the Cold War, two conflicts in Iraq and a decade of war in Afghanistan. No wonder — it weighs as much as nine elephants and is fitted with a cannon capable of turning a...
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Interactive: Meet the General Dynamics lobbyists
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General Dynamics-related campaign donations to key lawmakers
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Introducing our editorial cartoonist, Rob Tornoe
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View ArticleTop defense oversight staffer received $1.6 million payout from Lockheed Martin
A former executive for the Pentagon’s top defense contractor collected $1.66 million in salary, consulting fees and retirement pay from two top defense contractors last year before becoming the...
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