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• Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Regarding Right to Lie in Political Ads

  Two conservative groups have convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to an Ohio law that penalizes anyone...

• U.S. Military Formally Returns to Somalia 20 Years after “Black Hawk Down”

  Twenty years after the U.S. military was bloodied and humiliated in the “Black Hawk Down” tragedy, American troops have returned...

• Network TV Pulls Back from Foreign Policy Coverage

  Network news programs spent little time covering key international events and developments during 2013, and largely chose to focus on...

• Too Many Prisoners in Oklahoma and Ohio

  Swelling prison populations are creating serious public policy and safety concerns in at least two states that have witnessed soaring...

• Federal Refusal to Enforce Law Allows Foreign Fishing Companies to Use Harmful Methods

  Despite a 40-year-old federal law meant to protect them, every year more than 650,000 marine mammals, including dolphins, whales and...

• Ohio Rapist Released after 10 Months in Prison; Activist who Exposed Him Faces 10 Years

  In today’s American criminal justice system, computer hacking to expose the cover-up of an underage girl’s rape by local high...

• EPA Finally Asks Fracking Companies to Self-Report Which Toxins Are Dumped in the Ocean

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is cracking down on oil companies using the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, better...

• IRS Audits Drop to 8-Year Low

  Audits by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) were down to their lowest level since 2005, following several years of budget...

• Medicare Loses $9 Million a Year by Counting Two Donated Lungs as One

  Some bodily organs, like hearts and livers, come solo, while others, like kidneys and lungs, come in pairs—and that makes...

• Coal-Related Toxic Tap Water Emergency in West Virginia

  About 300,000 people in the Charleston, West Virginia, area are without useable tap water because of a chemical leak into...

• Government Accountability Office Can Provide Oversight of NSA…if Congress would just Ask

  Members of Congress seeking greater oversight of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the wake of last year’s spying revelations...

• Florida Manatees Dying at Record Pace

  Last year was a bad one for Florida’s manatees, which experienced a record number of fatalities.   The Florida Fish and Wildlife...

• Top Auto Safety Administrator Leaves Government to Join Law Firm Representing Auto Companies He Investigated

  The federal government’s top automobile safety regulator is leaving his post and joining a national law firm that represents car...

• For the First Time, Half of Members of Congress are Millionaires…Democrats Worth more than Republicans

  Members of Congress continued to get richer last year, resulting in more than 50% of lawmakers possessing a net worth...

• Hunting Club Auctions First Foreign Permit to Kill Endangered Black Rhino

  A Dallas hunting club is auctioning a permit this weekend to kill an endangered Black Rhino in Namibia to raise...

• Big Winners in Spread of Power Lines…Ravens

  Ravens are taking advantage of power poles in the United States, building nests atop them and using the poles’ height...

• Ambassador to Iceland: Who Is Robert Barber?

  When big campaign donors are rewarded with plum ambassadorships—a practice engaged in by presidents of both parties—they are usually sent...

• Congressional Oversight of NSA…Blink and You’ll Miss It

  Congress in the 1970s created for the first time two committees, one each in the House and Senate, to oversee...

• Postal Service Bypasses Union Workers in Deal with Staples

  The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has angered the union representing its employees by opening more than 80 retail post offices...

• Flaw in Electronic Health Record System Leads to Overcharging

  With the encouragement of the Obama administration, doctors and healthcare facilities have been digitizing patient files to create electronic health...