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Sri Lanka bans Monsanto herbicide citing potential link to deadly kidney disease
Concerned the chemical may be linked to a kidney disease killing agricultural workers, Sri Lanka this week ordered a ban on glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s top-selling herbicide...
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Harsh school discipline gets more scrutiny in Congress
Education experts on Thursday unveiled a trove of research suggesting that schools should stop doling out harsh discipline that pushes kids away from school often for minor infractions. The new...
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Obamacare subscribers: Beware of high deductibles
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last Thursday rejected the notion that Democrat Alex Sink’s narrow loss to Republican David Jolly in last week’s special election in Florida — in a congressional...
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ICIJ, Center win Scripps Howard honors for business, environmental reporting
Two investigative projects produced by the Center for Public Integrity, including one by its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), were honored for journalistic excellence...
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Merriam-Webster makes 'super PAC' official
"Super PAC" is officially legit.Making good on a promise, language authority Merriam-Webster recently published an entry for "super PAC" in its online unabridged dictionary — a subscription-only...
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Pro-transparency tea party activist trounced
Incumbent Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., easily fended off a primary challenge from David Hale, a tea party activist whose platform included a novel proposal to add more transparency to politicians’...
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Feds strike back at state laws regulating Obamacare 'navigators'
Federal officials are taking aim at more than a dozen state laws that reined in the activities of so-called “navigators” — advocates who are helping consumers negotiate the complexities of Obamacare....
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Tribal payday lender can't sidestep consumer laws, court rules
A federal judge has ruled that payday lenders must obey consumer-protection laws even if they are affiliated with Indian tribes.The March 7 ruling by U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro of Nevada was a...
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Tough new fracking rules in Colorado drawing keen attention in Texas, where...
Colorado’s tough, new air pollution rules for the oil and gas industry were approved only a month ago but already are making an impact in Texas, where lawmakers and energy companies have long resisted...
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California report: Don't spend new education money on campus police
A policy brief released Thursday urges California school districts to reject beefing up campus police forces and security when they start receiving substantial funding aimed at improving education for...
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Offshore shells helped tangle Chinese giant in Italian fraud scandal
As 2008 began, the future looked brilliant for green energy giant Suntech Power and its high-rising founder, Shi Zhengrong.Suntech was one of the world’s largest makers of solar panels, the first...
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Wireless companies fight for their futures
The setting was ornate, the subject esoteric, but the implications huge.The crowd that filed last month into the wood-paneled room 226 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building included lawmakers,...
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Improving security for nuclear explosives remains a diplomatic struggle
A proposal in a draft communique for the Nuclear Security Summit beginning on Monday to constrain holdings of a key nuclear explosive is concise and modest. But its uncertain fate symbolizes the...
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Holder, Duncan stunned by discipline figures
Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan expressed shock at data released Thursday showing that thousands of preschool kids were suspended nationwide during the 2011-2012...
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The health care industry's campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt
Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of Obamacare, but it marked the seventh anniversary of opposition to the concept underlying health care reform.At least two years before the first words of...
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Japan confirms it will return some nuclear explosive materials to U.S.
The Japanese government confirmed Monday it will ship hundreds of pounds of nuclear explosive materials back to the United States, after using it for decades to conduct research on nuclear reactor...
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Montana judges to disclose financial ties after Center report
Montana judges must now disclose details about their personal financial ties, a response to a Center for Public Integrity investigation that gave the state a failing grade for its lack of...
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Ready for Hillary courts super PAC skeptics
Until last year, Wisconsin attorney Christine Bremer Muggli had never donated to a super PAC.But records show she contributed $100 to a super PAC called Ready for Hillary in August. Then, in September,...
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North Carolina foster teen languishes in adult jail for school incident
Did a foster-care teen need to be arrested by school police this month for alleged battery on a school bus? And then jailed for more than two weeks with adults long after a judge ordered her...
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Inside the Koch brothers' campus crusade
The campus of Koch Brothers Academy spans a nation.Learn about the “role of government institutions in a capitalistic society” at South Carolina’s College of Charleston.Dive into the “integrated study...
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