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U.S. Military Uses More Oil per Day than the Entire Nation of Pakistan
The U.S. Department of Defense consumes more oil per day than 170 nations, including Pakistan, a country with 166 million people. Although the amount of fuel consumed by the military is not published, the quantity is estimated to be between 400,... read more
Women Most Likely to be Murdered by Men in Nevada, Least Likely in New Hampshire
The national homicide rate among women murdered by men in 2008 was 1.26 per 100,000, according to a study by the Violence Policy Center. Those states that exceeded the national average were led by Nevada whose 2.96 rate was more than double the ... read more
Obama Breaks Record for Gay Appointments
It’s taken President Barack Obama less than two years to do what President Bill Clinton did in two terms in office: set a new record for the most openly gay appointments in an administration. To date, President Obama has selected more than 150 s... read more
Child Soldier Cuts Deal with Obama Administration in Murder Case
In an attempt to avoid political embarrassment, the Obama administration has reached a deal with Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr that will keep the former child soldier from being the subject of the government’s first military tribunal.
Khadr... read more
Obama Administration Ignored Torture Warnings and Transferred Detainees to Iraqi Authorities
American military commanders knew of more than a thousand reports of Iraqi security forces torturing prisoners, but this didn’t stop officials in the Obama administration from deciding to hand over detainees to the Iraq government.
According... read more
Foxes Guarding Chicken Coops (and Other Food) Leads to Disease
What’s good for business isn’t always good for public health, which sums up the problem with the food inspection system in the United States.
Making sure poultry farms or meatpacking plants are clean isn’t completely a job that is being perf... read more
Executives Don’t Escape Financial Responsibility in Inferior Body Armor Case
Executives in charge of a controversial body-armor manufacturer have lost another ruling in court.
Last month, former CEO David Brooks and former chief operating officer Sandra Hatfield of DHB Industries were convicted of orchestrating a $19... read more
Obama to End Aid to Pakistan’s Death Squad Army Units
In a highly unusual foreign policy move, the Obama administration has decided to sever all assistance to certain units of Pakistan’s army. The move comes in response to the airing of gruesome video footage on the Internet showing Pakistani soldier... read more
Obama Administration Settles Native American Farm Loan Case
Native American farmers rejoiced this week as the Obama administration settled an 11-year legal battle involving allegations of discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In addition to USDA officials conceding the government u... read more
Two Active-Duty Soldiers Investigated for Handcuffing Journalist
Republican and Tea Party candidate Joe Miller of Alaska got some unwanted publicity when two off-duty soldiers working as bodyguards tried to arrest a journalist asking questions of the U.S. Senate candidate.
Providing security at the town-h... read more
Banks and Hedge Funds Move into the Property Tax Collection Business
Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street powerhouses have moved into the tax-collecting business, setting up new entities that press struggling Americans for late property tax payments.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund unc... read more
JPMorgan Chase Plays Pension Funds for Suckers
Securities lending is a great deal for banks like JPMorgan Chase, but not so good for the pension funds that handled the future retirements of private and public employees.
Pension funds turned over millions of dollars to JPMorgan and other ... read more
FDA Hints at Prosecution of Drug Executives
Because major drug companies keep breaking the law with regard to illegal marketing of pharmaceuticals, officials with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are finally thinking about prosecuting executives of the companies.
In recent years... read more
Special Ops/DIA Prison in Afghanistan Denies Red Cross Access to Detainees
At the United States’ main detention facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the Defense Intelligence Agency and Joint Special Operations Command operate a secret “black prison,” known as Tor Prison, that members of the International Committee... read more
CVS Fined $77 Million for Selling Meth Ingredients to Criminals
When Mexico banned the sale of pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient in methamphetamine, in 2007, drug rings turned to the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain, CVS, for help. Unlike other drug outlets, CVS allowed customers to make multiple purch... read more
Families and Veterans Object to “Propaganda” on Arlington Headstones
Unlike headstones at the other military graveyards around the United States, those at Arlington National Cemetery now are featuring titles like “Operation New Dawn” instead of “Iraq War” to indicate in which conflict a particular soldier died. Som... read more