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Can this 'dark money' group help the Democrats keep the Senate?
Liberals may blame conservatives for the ongoing surge of political “dark money” dominating the 2014 midterm elections. But Democrats are now taking full advantage of these secretive, free-wheeling...
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Afghan government can’t account for billions of dollars in Pentagon aid
Billions of dollars in direct U.S. aid to the Afghan army and police have been poorly tracked, leaving no way to verify if the money was spent as intended, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s...
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GOP’s Senate hopes energized by Koch network ad blitz
The secretive political network of conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch has aired more than 43,900 television ads this election cycle in an attempt to help Republicans take control of the...
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Center seeks postgraduate journalists of color for new fellowship
The Center for Public Integrity is hiring — and we’re looking for ambitious postgraduates for a new, year-long investigative journalism fellowship.Made possible by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the...
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FEC not 'Ready for Warren'
Ditch you name — or else, federal election regulators are telling an upstart super PAC that's urging Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to seek the presidency.In a letter Sunday, the Federal Election...
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In New Hampshire, quixotic super PAC shaking up Republican primary
In little New Hampshire’s big money U.S. Senate primary, Republican Jim Rubens should be an afterthought at best.This former New Hampshire state senator, after all, hasn’t occupied elected office since...
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Homeowners steamrolled as Florida courts clear foreclosure backlog
Florida Circuit Court Judge Diana Lewis was in a hurry. She had 93 foreclosure cases before her in the next two hours and she made it clear that she wasn’t going to let anything slow them down.“This is...
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Mitch McConnell revs ad machine
Don’t believe for a bluegrass minute that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is taking his challenge from Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes lightly.During the week following Labor Day,...
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Contractor, Hispanic worker deaths up in 2013, BLS says
The number of contractors and Hispanic workers who died on the job increased in 2013 even as the overall tally of worker deaths declined, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S....
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Koch foundation proposal to college: Teach our curriculum, get millions
In 2007, when the Charles Koch Foundation considered giving millions of dollars to Florida State University’s economics department, the offer came with strings attached.First, the curriculum it funded...
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Investigating Florida's parallel legal system for foreclosures
Defense motions that disappear after 60 days, unelected judges meant to rule on a quarter of a million cases a year, original documents gone missing — these are the realities facing families caught in...
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'Ready for Warren' to change name
Under pressure from federal regulators, an upstart super PAC attempting to convince Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to seek the presidency has agreed to change its name."Ready for Warren PAC" will...
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'Zombie' homes haunt Florida neighborhoods
Kelly Young was stunned when she got a letter in January informing her that her disability payments, those of her daughter, and their Medicare benefits were being cut off. The Social Security...
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Taking insurance companies out of health care
There are many Americans who are beginning to question the contributions big insurance companies make to our health care system. And I’m not just talking about lefty advocates of a single-payer system....
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Treasury extends controversial bank-card deal with Comerica
The Treasury Department has extended a deal with Comerica Bank to distribute benefits to the elderly and disabled on payment cards despite vowing last year to seek a new vendor for the program, which...
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Black lung disease surges to highs not seen since the '70s, research shows
Black lung, the dreaded coal miners’ disease that had been on the decline, has roared back. The worst form of the illness now afflicts a higher proportion of miners than at any time since the 1970s,...
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The 47-year-old nuclear elephant in the room
Israel has a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons.Former CIA director Robert Gates said so during his 2006 Senate confirmation hearings for secretary of defense, when he noted — while serving as a...
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DOE official seeks probe of dissident analyst’s dismissal by nuclear weapons...
A senior Energy Department official has requested a special probe of claims by a U.S. nuclear weapons analyst that one of the nuclear weapons laboratories canceled his security clearances and fired him...
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Children's rights groups urge Defense program to stop giving school cops...
More than 20 national education and civil rights advocates sent a letter Monday to Department of Defense officials, urging them to stop giving U.S. school police departments anti-mine vehicles,...
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Iowa, Michigan bombarded with political ads
A warning to voters in Iowa and Michigan: Exercise extreme caution when turning on your television.During the second week of September, candidates, parties and other politically active groups sponsored...
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