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Amy Biegelsen

American University Fellow  The Center for Public Integrity

Amy Biegelsen won the Virginia Press Association’s 2009 and 2011 Best in Show Award for a feature portfolio, and a collection of health and environmental stories. She is the recipient of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association’s Excellence in Journalism prize for a story on children’s mental health issues and is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago.

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BP pays another fine for Texas refinery

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today it will collect a $15 million fine from BP for Clean Air Act violations, the latest in a

A federal government ban on Holocaust survivors suing to collect on European insurance policies from that era may be on a shaky legal footin

In an unusually public spat, the independent watchdogs inside a dozen federal agencies are alleging government officials have hindered sensi

Federal inmates have been processing computers, televisions and other discarded gadgets known as e-waste for a poorly administered and poten

A lawyer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a second time to hear a case related to a federal block on Holocaust victims’ families suing E

Rep. Howard McKeon (R-Calif.) answers to the nickname “Buck,” an appropriate moniker for the man about to help oversee one of the biggest ch

A California congressman since 1978, Jerry Lewis aims to regain the gavel of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee and all the federal bud

President Barack Obama’s new executive order creating a uniform category for federal documents that are sensitive but not classified is an a

It was a windy Friday morning last December when Gary Kuklish stepped out of the post office in the tiny coal town of LaBelle, PA, looked do

For the second time this year, the Pentagon is trying to give a no-bid contract extension to a logistics company operating a supply warehous

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