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Center's report on black lung wins prestigious Goldsmith Prize
A ground-breaking Center for Public Integrity investigation detailing controversial denials of black lung benefits to coal miners has been awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative...
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White House seeks to chip away at severe Labor Department judge shortage,...
Chipping away at an acute problem highlighted by the Center for Public Integrity in December, the White House is seeking an additional $2 million for the coming fiscal year to hire 10 employees in the...
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Outside groups dwarf candidate spending in Florida special election
The campaign money machines of Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly have not just been matched by outside forces, they’ve been lapped.Roughly $12.5 million has flooded the heated special...
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Lawyer selected for Czech ambassadorship also major Obama fundraiser
President Barack Obama has nominated attorney Andrew Schapiro, one of his former Harvard Law School classmates and a prolific fundraiser for the president, to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Czech...
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Education groups battle teachers unions in state races
Three weeks before Tennessee’s August 2012 primary election, state Rep. John DeBerry Jr.’s Memphis-area district was flooded with $52,000 worth of get-out-the-vote efforts supporting the then-nine-term...
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Issue ad or political ad? You be the judge
The advertisement ran just less than a month before the race for school board in Douglas County, Colo.“Liberals are fighting school choice in Douglas County,” the announcer intoned. “But four...
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FEC wants millions in new cash to fix security woes
The Federal Election Commission is asking Congress for nearly $3 million to address what it says are serious security breaches and an obsolete IT system.The requests follow an investigation by the...
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CPAC activists urged to fight IRS
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The only antagonist Conservative Political Action Conference headliners are battering more than President Barack Obama and his signature health care law is the Internal Revenue...
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A world awash in a nuclear explosive?
WASHINGTON — A generation after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the world is rediscovering the attractions of nuclear power to curb the warming pollution of carbon fuels. And so a new industry focused...
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Exposing tragic myths of the world's 'greatest' health care system
If you want to see a media pundit rendered utterly speechless, reduced to babbling as he tries to justify his claim that Obamacare is leading the United States to third world status, you must watch...
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Japan could be building an irresistible terrorist target, experts say
ROKKASHO, Japan — Sporting turquoise-striped walls and massive steel cooling towers, the new industrial complex rising from bluffs astride the Pacific Ocean here looks like it might produce consumer...
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Japan agrees to return some plutonium
TOKAI, Japan — Wedged in a corner of a pine-scented, campus-like research center here is the so-called Fast Critical Assembly, which — except for a squat reactor containment dome — looks more like a...
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Debt collectors go after service members despite protections
Debt collectors are targeting members of the Armed Services by calling their superior officers, threatening reduction in rank and even courts-martial, despite stepped-up efforts to protect them from...
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Dental chain may be booted from Medicaid program
Small Smiles, which has been under federal scrutiny for years for performing unnecessary dental treatments on children, could be barred from the Medicaid program beginning next month.The inspector...
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Virginia's move toward ethics reform leaves many unimpressed
Virginia lawmakers have moved to strengthen the state’s modest ethics laws, approving reform legislation that seeks to reign in excessive gifts to public officials. Even before the bill passed,...
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Congressional investigations of FEC stalled
Leaders on two U.S. House committees acknowledge that parallel investigations into computer security and staffing breakdowns at the Federal Election Commission aren't living up to their initial...
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Outside groups help boost David Jolly to victory
Republican David Jolly tonight narrowly won Florida’s contentious 13th Congressional District election that attracted an astonishing $12.7 million as national partisans fought for bragging rights...
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Plutonium fever blossoms in Japan
TOKYO — When Taro Kono was growing up as the son of a major Japanese political party leader, he had what he calls a “fever for the atom.” Like many of his countrymen, he regarded nuclear power plants...
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Documents reveal GOP group's secret donors
Companies including Alabama Power, drugmaker Pfizer and insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama helped fund the secretive “social welfare” nonprofit arm of the Alabama House Republican Caucus...
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United Nations report: 'Children on the Run' from violent homelands
The surging number of unaccompanied Central American and Mexican child migrants represent a growing challenge for U.S. officials, who must weigh who gets to stay here — and who gets sent back to...
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