Fights over tribal payday lenders show challenges of financial reform

By Michael Hudson and David Heath

High-interest payday lenders are teaming up with Native Americans to shield their online businesses from lawsuits and consumer-lending regul

Newsmaker interview: Warren says Congress should hold car dealers to same rules as other lenders

Elizabeth Warren, the government’s top advocate on consumer financial issues, says that Congress needs to hold auto dealers to the same basi

Analysis — The false promise and big profits of ‘mini-med’ health plans

By Wendell Potter

One of the reasons I left my job as a PR executive for the health insurance industry was because I could not in good conscience be a pitchma
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Jeff Bingaman — Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

By Aaron Mehta

As chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, New Mexico Democrat Jeff Bingaman has been in the middle of the contentious debate o

Memo suggests FBI had mole inside ABC News in 1990s

By John Solomon and Aaron Mehta

Agents treated reporter like informant, raising question: Who else?

Excerpts from this story referencing "Assistant":

"… rs and people in other sensitive professions as sources of information,” Assistant FBI Director Michael Kortan said Monday. “There is no reason to think, r …"

Assistant attorney general's office approved wiretap in controversial gun probe

By John Solomon and David Heath

High-level Justice Department officials approved wiretap in controversial gun probe
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'Undetected rapists' on campus: A troubling plague of repeat offenders

By Jennifer Peebles and Kristen Lombardi

A chilling case of sexual assault at Texas A&M

Excerpts from this story referencing "Ferguson Unit":

"… lieve it. I know for a fact it’s not true,” he said in an interview at Ferguson Unit, a Texas prison about two hours north of Houston. “My family knows it’ …"

"… &M chapter, but that he remains a member of the national fraternity.At Ferguson Unit, Yarbrough is now inmate No. 1397217. He rises by 6:30 each morning and is …"

Lax enforcement of Title IX in campus sexual assault cases

By Kristin Jones

Feeble watchdog leaves students at risk, critics say

Excerpts from this story referencing "Assistant":

"… nn expressed concerns about her methods. It wasn’t until April 2006 that Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Suzanne Jones, the third investigating officer, ma …"

Overview: The tobacco lobby goes global

By Ricardo Sandoval Palos

The tobacco lobby goes global

America’s asbestos age

By Jim Morris

A toxic legacy may leave behind a half-million deaths

Excerpts from this story referencing "ChemRisk":

"… y $43 million since 2001 to scientific experts at two consulting firms — ChemRisk and Exponent  — who have testified that the amounts of chrysotile f …"

"… al of these experts — most notably Dennis Paustenbach, president of ChemRisk and former vice president of Exponent — have published papers in peer-re …"

"… done part-time brake work in a garage that specialized in Ford vehicles. A ChemRisk toxicologist, Brent Finley, was a defense expert in the case. A Ford …"

"… suits. Paustenbach strongly denies the charge. Records show that his firm, ChemRisk, was paid almost $12 million by the three automakers from 2001 to 2009.In …"

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