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Obama Could Fix Dark Money, but Would Rather Just Yell at Republicans About It
President Obama has been denouncing “dark money” since 2010, when he declared it “a threat to our democracy.” And he’s right to be concerned...
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Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
New stealth fighter is dead meat in an air battle.
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Fast Track to the Corporate Wish List
The Trans-Pacific Partnership displays a deep rift in the Democratic Party.
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How a journalist is navigating the dangers of reporting in Egypt
As press freedom wanes in Egypt, how do journalists operate? DW spoke to Emir Nader, a political journalist at an English-language newspaper in Cairo, about the nuances of reporting amid arrests, gag orders and violence.
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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Introduce Sheldon Adelson-Backed Bill to Ban Online Gambling
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio are among a cohort of senators that revived legislation heavily favored by the billionaire GOP donor.
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Top EPA Official Used Personal Email Address to Solicit Green Group’s Input
Newly released emails show off-the-books collaboration between agency’s policy director and Sierra Club
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Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Unconstitutional?
Provisions that allow foreign investors to bypass the federal courts could undermine U.S. legal protections.
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Industry lobbies hard to snuff out tax on medical devices
Industry contributions and lobbying convince U.S. House to repeal tax on medical devices, endangering Obamacare.
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Illegal ivory crushed in New York's Times Square
More than a ton of confiscated ivory is crushed in New York's Times Square to send a message that the illegal trade will not be tolerated.
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How the Pentagon Quietly Turned Half a Billion Dollars into $32,000
The military didn’t tell inspectors it planned to junk troubled aircraft
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The great Moldovan bank robbery
It's a mystery that's thrown Europe's poorest nation into deep crisis - $1bn has vanished from three of Moldova's leading banks, much of it passing through UK companies.
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America’s election watchdogs are literally arguing over whether FEC commissioners are people
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Democrats Are Fed Up with the SEC’s Weak Financial Crimefighting
The Securities and Exchange Commission chair is under fire from a progressive movement that doesn't usually find the SEC to be a natural target.
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The Real Medicare Fraudsters Aren’t ‘Welfare Queens’
A $712 million bust, the biggest in U.S. history, shows that the people most likely to bilk the system are doctors and medical providers, not beneficiaries.
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SEC Chair’s Conflicts Fuel Sympathy for Wall Street, Group Says
A new report said U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White let her longstanding ties to Wall Street skew her ability to police the finance industry, adding to the litany of complaints by left-leaning groups about her tenure...
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June 17, 1972: The Watergate Scandal Begins, as Nixon Campaign Associates Are Caught Breaking Into Democratic Headquarters
"Whatever the motive for the 'breaking and entering,' it was not burglary, third rate or otherwise."
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White House, Republicans Lack Plan to Get Vote on Trade Bill
The Obama administration and Republican leaders don’t have a clear plan to resurrect the president’s trade agenda and are giving themselves until the end of July to find a way to overcome resistance from congressional Democrats [using a must-pass highway bill in August].
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Possible Pentagon destruction of evidence in NSA leak case probed
The Justice Department acknowledges the probes in a letter last week to a federal magistrate judge who recently received the allegations from lawyers for former NSA senior official Thomas Drake.
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Can Thulisile Madonsela Save South Africa From Itself?
Two decades after the fall of apartheid, the nation’s first female public protector tries to beat back corruption at the highest levels of government.
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“The Death of Democracy” — A Public Talk on TTIP
If you find yourself with an hour and a half to kill over the next few days or weeks, one good way of putting it to use would be to watch the following in-depth talk on the grave threat posed by the new generation of trade treaties such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership...
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