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Justices Have Been Forced to Resign for Doing What Clarence Thomas Has Done
Justice Clarence Thomas is an ethics problem in a black robe. Just eight months after ThinkProgress broke the story of Thomas’ attendance at a Koch-sponsored political fundraiser, we learn …
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EU: Industry Lobbies Set Up Spin on Cash-for-Amendments Scandal
After the intense debate and media attention in the first weeks after the European Parliament's cash-for-amendments scandal broke, it has become very quiet in the last weeks. Discussions about transparency and …
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NATO Says It Mistakenly Hit Libyan Rebels Again
Tripoli, Libya - NATO acknowledged Saturday that its aircraft had mistakenly hit a column of rebel military vehicles last week near the Libyan oil port of Brega, and early …
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Medicare Claims Show Overuse for CT Scanning
Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their chests twice …
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Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics
Pin Point, Georgia - Clarence Thomas was here promoting his memoir a few years ago when he bumped into Algernon Varn, whose grandfather once ran a seafood cannery that …
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How Spain Launched a Revolution
Just a few months ago, Spain was like much of the Western world: quietly struggling with the economic crisis and the social cuts government took to deal with it. …
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Agreement Reached on Bailout Package for Greece
London - After days of skyrocketing alarm among investors, the leaders of Europe's two heavyweights, France and Germany, reached agreement Friday on a key element of a second rescue …
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Karzai Says US in Peace Talks With Taliban
Kabul, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan launched a broadside against his coalition allies on Saturday, saying their motives were suspect, and repeated his assertion that the United …
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Administration Ends Health Care Waiver Program
Washington - The Obama administration is ending a controversial program that allowed employers to avoid a key requirement of the new federal health care law. Beginning in …
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“No One Can Do This Alone”: How an Immigrant Family Beat Deportation
Jeysson Minota, a permanent legal resident, faced deportation over a vandalism charge due to graffiti. After four years in and out of detention, he was able to beat the …