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House Majority Doesn’t Trust Supermax Prison Guards
Having already denied funds to close down the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, House lawmakers on Thursday adopted an amendment that bans the transfer of detainees to maximum-security prisons in the United States. Republicans managed to pull ... read more
Can U.S. Send More Troops to Afghanistan? Not Unless They Leave Iraq Fast
When the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, called for more troops, the response should have been: Okay, from where?
To put it simply, the U.S. Army is maxed out. An assessment performed by the RAND Arroyo Center, a... read more
U.S. Still Moving Forward with Nuclear Weapons Program
Regardless of President Barack Obama’s declarations in favor of reducing, or even eliminating, the United States’ stockpile of nuclear weapons, the federal government is still moving forward with a modernization plan to make sure its warheads are ... read more
Study Reveals Widespread Violations of Minimum Wage and Overtime Laws
Low-wage workers in the nation’s three largest labor markets are subject to being paid less than minimum wage, and denied overtime pay and other legally-protected rights, according to a new survey conducted by a group of researchers and academics.... read more
Mystery of Oklahoma Bombing Tapes
A Utah attorney conducting his own investigation of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing managed to get the FBI to release four different videotapes of the area around the former Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the morning of the explosi... read more
First Joint-Service Military Base Inaugurated in New Jersey
In an effort to save money and become more efficient, the U.S. armed forces is embracing the idea of joint military bases for the first time, merging Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps personnel under a single command. In southern New Jersey, ... read more
Most Censored Stories of the Year
Huge donations by Wall Street to Congress, the reemergence of segregated education in America, and the pirating of Somalia’s territorial waters by foreign businesses are just some of the top stories that have gone underreported by the media, accor... read more
Congress Set to Allow EPA to Evacuate Polluted Kansas Town
Treece, Kansas, may soon be no more. The tiny community near the Oklahoma border is so polluted with chat—mining waste filled with lead and zinc—that the Environmental Protection Agency wants to buy out those left in Treece and level it in an effo... read more
Women on Subs…A Barrier is about to Fall
Top military officials in Washington have told naval commanders to prepare the nation’s submarine fleet for female crew members, ending a gender barrier that has lasted since the beginning of undersea warfare by the United States. Both Navy Secr... read more
Women Most Likely to be Murdered by Men in Louisiana and Alaska
An examination of the murders of women in 2007 has found Louisiana led the nation in such killings when the culprit is a husband, boyfriend or another “intimate” relation. On a per capita basis, Louisiana was ranked No. 1 with a 2.53 homicide rate... read more
Big Banks Set to Win Another One
“Plain Vanilla” proved to be too rich for Congress’ taste. President Barack Obama’s desire to force banks to offer consumers “plain vanilla” financial products, in particular 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, is quickly melting on Capitol Hill, where ... read more
Government Prepares to Borrow Money from Banks
One more big bank failure and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) could be in danger of going broke. This predicament has forced federal regulators to seriously consider borrowing money from the very institutions the FDIC has been res... read more
U.S. Seeing Profits, Rejects Cluster Bomb Treaty
A landmark treaty limiting the destructive firepower of cluster bombs is under threat from a lobbying campaign by a U.S. defense contractor that claims to have made a civilian-friendly version of the weapon.
Textron Defense Systems wants the U... read more
A Typical Day of Crime in the United States
According to information appearing in the FBI’s annual crime report, during a typical day in 2008 there were 3,776 violent crimes in the United States, including 44murders, 243 forcible rapes and 2,228 aggravated assaults. Additionally, there were... read more
Obama’s FCC Stands Up for Internet Users Against Providers
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed a new rule that will prevent Internet service providers from blocking certain applications flowing over their networks. Considered a new principle of net neutrality, the ru... read more
Obama Allows Sen. McConnell to Appoint Foxes to Guard Chicken Coops
President Barack Obama’s willingness to follow the tradition of allowing the Senate GOP leader to appoint members to two oversight boards has government watchdogs upset. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has chosen former aide and energy lobbyist Sco... read more