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Matthew Tully: Fireworks lobby ensures nightly barrage in Indiana neighborhoods despite noise, danger

In a state with some of the nation’s loosest laws, fireworks stands pop up this time of year like weeds in your garden — in strip malls, abandoned big-box stores […]
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Nearly One in Five Members of Congress Gets Paid Twice

About 90 members from both chambers collected a government pension atop their taxpayer-financed $174,000 salary in 2012, National Journal found in an examination of recent financial records. The practice is […]
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NSA in Utah: Mining a mountain of data

In many ways, the new Utah Data Center is the quintessential black box. But a sharper picture of what is likely to go on within its walls has come into […]
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To Cope with Sequester, Justice Department Staffs Unpaid Attorneys

A ProPublica report finds there are 96 unpaid special assistant U.S. attorneys working for the Justice Department, according to a spokesperson, who said paid assistant U.S attorneys have starting salaries […]
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Top Medicare Prescribers Rake In Speaking Fees From Drugmakers

Data obtained and analyzed by ProPublica suggest another factor in the drug Bystolic's rapid success: Many of the drug's top prescribers have financial ties to Forest Laboratories, its maker.
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Extra Extra Roundup: Drug cartels, unjustified shootings, unseen farm worker harassment

Unjustified | Newsday“Report reveals how cop shot unarmed man - and kept his job.” Secret files reveal how pay-to-play works in N.J. | The Star-Ledger“A special report by The Star-Ledger exposes […]
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Unjustified

A Newsday report reveals how a cop shot an unarmed man -- and kept his job.
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Secret files reveal how pay-to-play works in N.J.

A special report by The Star-Ledger exposes how one politically connected engineering firm parlayed campaign donations into millions of dollars in public contracts, all the while keeping the scheme hidden […]
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Female workers face rape, harassment in U.S. agriculture industry

According to a Center for Investigative Reporting article, hundreds of female agricultural workers have complained to the federal government about being raped, assaulted and verbally and physically harassed on the […]
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Computer Industry, Unions Big Donors to Immigration Bill Supporters

The 27 senators who voted against an immigration overhaul bill amendment, which strengthens border security but is also a step towards passing the overall immigration package, on average received very […]
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