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Super PACs swarming New Jersey special election
With the primary just weeks away, new super PACs are popping up to boost — or bash — Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s candidacy in New Jersey’s crowded U.S. Senate special election.A recently formed super...
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Battle brews over Obama renewable energy plan
America’s deserts are stark, quiet places, where isolation and the elements have long kept development at bay. To outsiders, these arid expanses may not seem like prized land.But they are poised to...
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More corporations revealing 'dark money' donations
America’s largest corporations, while still overwhelmingly opaque about their politicking, are more transparent than ever before, according to a yet-to-be-published analysis of S&P 500 companies’...
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ObamaCare oversight among health watchdog cuts
Facing major budget and staff cuts, federal officials are scaling back several high-profile health care fraud and abuse investigations, including an audit of the state insurance exchanges that are set...
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Mortgage lender owned by Dole Foods magnate accused by CFPB of abusive practices
As the financial overhaul known as the Dodd-Frank Act turns three this week, the law’s most controversial creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is for the first time cracking down on...
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Global impact of ‘Offshore Leaks’ grows
The global impact of our latest international investigation has been astonishing:In South Korea, police and prosecutors raided the home of a former President, hauling away paintings and other...
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Big Democratic super PAC helps bankroll another
A pro-Barack Obama super PAC with no marquee candidate left to support has donated some surplus cash to — another super PAC.Priorities USA Action contributed a quarter-million dollars to Senate...
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A fast, agile Navy ship is prone to embarrassing glitches
One of the Navy’s newest warships suddenly found itself immobilized in the South China Sea on July 20, as the failure of one of its four diesel generators caused a shutdown of all its engines during...
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IMPACT: Delaware governor, Atlanta mayor forward tainted donations to charity
The governor of Delaware and the mayor of Atlanta, whose campaigns accepted possibly illegal contributions from an embattled Washington, D.C., businessman, said this week they will be donating the...
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Youth: Stand Your Ground laws put us at risk
Allegations of racial profiling of black youth surfaced in Florida and other states long before this month’s jury acquittal of George Zimmerman — the Florida man who shot unarmed black teen Trayvon...
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The other Washington could hold the key to Medicare's cost crisis
A recent federal assessment of Medicare’s fiscal health contained a shred of good news — the public health insurance program for the elderly is burning through cash at a slightly slower rate than...
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OPINION: a brave new world for health insurance
If you pay attention and listen closely, you can hear it.That’s the sound of the death rattle. Soon we’ll need to put the undertakers and gravediggers on notice. It is just a matter of time, no more...
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Talk instead of development in Afghanistan
Tailoring U.S. foreign aid programs to produce stability in Afghanistan has been an uphill slog. Lawmakers and auditors have repeatedly complained that gains have been small while costs have been high....
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Embattled McDonnell benefactor also boosted RGA
A company run by Jonnie Williams Sr., the businessman whose gift giving to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has drawn the scrutiny of federal law enforcement officials, donated more than $16,000 to the...
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Industry muscle targets federal 'Report on Carcinogens'
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — In the 1980s, toxicologist James Huff was a bane of industry’s existence.A blunt Philadelphian, Huff helped supervise animal tests here at the National Institute of...
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Child sex trafficking: schools could help stop it
The plight of foster kids and other vulnerable youth came into painful relief this week when the FBI announced raids in 76 U.S. cities to break up prostitution rings exploiting more than 100 teens....
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Super PAC for independents closes down
Elections are notoriously tough for independent political candidates. And it appears just as difficult out there for super PACs touting politicians not affiliated with either major political party.The...
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Libertarian-leaning super PAC raising big money
A super PAC quietly formed this spring by prominent libertarians has rushed to a quick fundraising start thanks to a small network of wealthy, like-minded donors.Purple PAC, a super PAC created by...
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Bear Stearns mortgage executives have plum jobs on Wall Street
Before Lehman crashed, there was “The Bear.”Bear Stearns, once the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank, had been a fixture on Wall Street since 1923 and had survived the crash of 1929 without laying...
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Sarah Palin PAC takes fundraising nosedive
Sarah Palin’s leadership political action committee has taken a fundraising nosedive this year — and most of the money it has raised isn’t directly going toward helping her fellow Republicans seeking...
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