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Newly-introduced federal legislation would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a measure of authority over the manufacturing, marketing and advertising of tobacco products.
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Kids' vinyl lunch boxes often contain dangerous levels of lead, but government regulators have released to the public only the test results most favorable to industry, according to documents the Associated Press obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request. The Consumer Product Safety Commission found that 20 percent of boxes tested in 2005 contained unsafe amounts of lead--and several contained more than 10 times the safety level.
One of the most interesting things about the perjury trial of former White House aide Scooter Libby has been the light it shines on the usually-hidden relationship between top government officials and Washington journalists.
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Former executive of the PR firm Fleishman-Hillard (F-H) Doug Dowie, who was convicted in 2006 of overbilling the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and other clients, is suing
With the debate on the Hill over the Iraq troop "surge" kicking into high gear, the Congresspedia page documenting the congressional actions on the surge has been getting a lot of additions.
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With 44,000 employees, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) "is larger than the [U.S.] departments of Labor, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development combined," Donald Barlett and James Steele write, in an in-depth profile of the military contractor. "SAIC currently holds some 9,000 active federal contracts," more than any other company.
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One radio station in Santa Fe, New Mexico has had enough. "It is the policy of KSFR's news department to ignore and not repeat any wire service or nationally published story about Iran, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia or any other foreign power that quotes an 'unnamed' U.S. official," news director Bill Dupuy told his staff. "We should not dutifully parrot whatever comes out of Washington, on the wire or by whatever means, no matter how intriguing and urgent it sounds, when the source is unnamed.
Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.), a seven-term congressman from Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, died Tuesday of cancer at age 65. Several weeks after his victory in the 2006 congressional elections, Norwood developed a new round of health problems and returned to Georgia for hospice care last week.
Rep. Gary Miller has become the fourth House Republican from California in less than two years to face a federal investigation. He joins current Reps. John Doolittle and Jerry Lewis, as well as former Rep.
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