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News in Brief: Workers in Canada Striking, and More
Workers in Canada Striking According to the Ottawa Citizen, unions and legislators are gradually addressing labor disputes as locked-out workers strike for better benefits. Air Canada …
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Deal on Lifeline to Avert Greek Bankruptcy Is Postponed
Europe's finance ministers unexpectedly put off approval early Monday of the next installment of aid to debt-laden Greece, delaying the decision until July and demanding that the Greek Parliament …
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Supreme Court Rules for Wal-Mart in Sex Discrimination Suit
Washington - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart goes too far, handing business a major legal victory. Though divided in …
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Debate Swirls Around Research Showing Lung Problems for Returned Troops
As a teenager in northern New York, Gary Durham ran cross-country and hiked the Adirondack’s high peaks. In Army basic training, he did two-mile runs in under 13 minutes. …
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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. …