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F35 program may be unaffordable, auditor says
The troubled F-35 fighter jet, which is supposed to serve as the backbone of the U.S. military’s future air combat forces, may cost much more than the nation can afford, a federal auditor told a Senate...
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Obama’s nuclear targeting revisions create a path to smaller arsenals
President Obama disclosed in Berlin on June 19 that he has ordered the Pentagon to revise its plan for targeting America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons in wartime, a decision that opens the door to...
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Wisconsin justice's spouse head of union-busting law firm
A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice is preparing to hear the appeal of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting law, despite the fact that her husband is the...
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World leaders tackle tax havens with ICIJ help
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) can take partial credit for the results of this week’s G-8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland. Leaders of the world’s major economies...
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Senators grill Treasury official about debit card program
Democrats on the Senate Special Committee for Aging pummeled a Treasury official Wednesday with questions about the effort to replace paper checks with electronic payments to mostly poor and elderly...
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Koch Industries PAC bolts to fast start in 2013
The political action committee of Koch Industries Inc.— the energy company run by conservative billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch — is off to its fastest start ever for a federal election...
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New scrutiny of 'longwall' mining finds damage in Pennsylvania streams
The brutally efficient coal-extraction method known as “longwall mining” has permanently damaged a half dozen streams in Pennsylvania, state regulators have found — a finding that could trigger deeper...
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White House nominates new FEC commissioners
The White House today nominated two people to serve six-year terms on the Federal Election Commission.The nominees are Lee E. Goodman, an attorney at law firm LeClairRyan, and Ann Ravel, chairwoman of...
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More bundlers picked for plush ambassador posts
President Barack Obama’s new choices to represent U.S. interests in Belgium and the Dominican Republic were both key bundlers during his re-election campaign, according to a Center for Public Integrity...
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Nuclear Waste: How a huge U.S. nonproliferation program became a major...
SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, S.C. — A half-finished monolith of raw concrete and rebar rises suddenly from slash pine forests as the public tour bus crests a hill at this heavily-secured site south of rural...
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OPINION: Pro-industry amendments lard up Missouri insurance legislation
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is facing a dilemma.Should he sign a bill that was intended to help many state residents get coverage for cost-effective health care that insurers often refuse to pay for?Or...
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Groups pump millions into Mass. special election
Political allies of Democratic U.S Rep. Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have together reported spending more than $5 million on advertisements designed to boost their preferred candidate in the...
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Obama includes Dem donors at CEO gathering
President Barack Obama met with nine business leaders from around the country today at the White House, one of whom is a major Democratic donor.Sunil Puri, the founder of the Illinois-based real estate...
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Nuclear Waste: A $1 billion Energy Department project overshoots its budget...
SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, S.C. — Scattered among the pine forests of this 310-square mile federal reservation are five mothballed nuclear reactors where tens of thousands of workers were once engaged in a...
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Super PAC surge can't deliver Gomez victory
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., tonight weathered an 11th-hour surge of super PAC attacks to win the special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, buoyed by his own massive campaign war chest and...
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Nuclear Waste: Extremism in defense of federally-paid jobs is no vice in...
Before retiring from Congress four years ago, David Hobson, a powerful subcommittee chairman, says he couldn't fathom why the Energy Department was so determined to build a multi-billion dollar plant...
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IMPACT: 'Dentists' probe leads to new Texas law
A new Texas law will give regulators more power to crack down on dentists performing unnecessary treatments, especially on children.A spokesman for the bill’s author — Republican State Rep. Lois W....
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DOMA supporters still have friends in Washington
Supporters of the Defense of Marriage Act — parts of which the U.S. Supreme Court today deemed unconstitutional— still have allies on Capitol Hill.Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., for one, has already said...
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Nuclear Waste: Washington has ignored a cheaper way to dispose of its...
For the past decade, Washington has known how to dispose of excess U.S. plutonium at a cost estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars less than what the Energy Department is spending on a South...
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'Nuclear Waste' series targets seriously troubled project
In four superb reports this week, The Center for Public Integrity’s national security team tells the disturbing story of how billions of dollars are being wasted on a specialized nuclear plant that was...
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