JIEDDO: The Manhattan Project that bombed

By Peter Cary and Nancy Youssef

The Pentagon’s main effort to counter improvised explosive devices has spent $17 billion, but the results have been disappointing by almost

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"… o ex-journalists offering to do similar work, and upset the CIA as well. A New York Times story revealed the contretemps, and raised questions about whether the inf …"

Donald Trump's lawsuits could turn off conservatives who embrace tort reform

By Peter H. Stone

Trump and his companies have sued, and been sued, hundreds of times

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"… nt on its website and treating him like a “cash cow.”Trump sued former New York Times journalist Tim O’Brien and his publisher seeking $5 billion in dama …"

"… by estimates of how much he was worth in a book published in 2005 by then-New York Times reporter Tim O’Brien and Time Warner Book Group. “TrumpNation: the Art …"

Is Congress failing on Homeland Security oversight?

By Sarah Laskow

Boston Marathon bombing raises new questions.

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"… t there are just too many committees.” Others put it less delicately. A New York Times editorial late last year called the current situation “a comedy that inv …"

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The curious spending of Republicans for Choice

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Wharton Professor Yoram “Jerry” Wind calls himself a liberal Republican. Unhappy with what he considers far-right positions taken by his par

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"… rwaves to make the case for a pro-abortion-rights GOP. (In a June CBS News/New York Times poll, 40 percent of Republicans said that Roe v. Wade’s establishment of …"

Kuklo, target of Army probe, a top recipient of Medtronic travel

If you read today's New York Times, you're likely familiar with the story of former Army surgeon Timothy R. Kuklo, a paid consultant to Medt

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"… t on privately funded travel by the Defense Department. …"

Counting the costs: Convention boosters promise a windfall that rarely materializes

By Meredith O'Brien

This year's Republican convention in New York City is expected to cost by some estimates up to $166 million. Federal taxpayers will pay near

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"… o Hoboken, forcing them to transfer to different trains or ferries. The New York Times reported in July that closing six of Penn Station’s eight exits woul …"

"… flecting on the impact the Democratic convention had on rival city Boston, New York Times writers Michael Cooper and Michael Slackman had these pieces of advice for …"

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Reform reading: Big banks take on CFTC over policing of derivatives

By Julie Vorman

A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. ...

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"… ecretive, trillion-dollar world of derivatives trading is spotlighted in a New York Times story about the monthly meetings ICE Trust holds with nine bankers. The so …"

"… s not a better job in the world,” Moynihan said in an interview with the New York Times one year after taking the top job at the biggest U.S. bank.The numbers tel …"

Starr Struck: Part three

By Florence George Graves

BOSTON, April 1, 1998 — While the tradition of resisting subpoenas was already established in print journalism, it didn't start to develop i

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"… 0 to help protect press freedoms. There was fear, she says, that the famed New York Times v. Sullivan case — which expanded press freedom by making it more diffic …"

"… and when he was named independent counsel (“safe and nonpartisan,” The New York Times opined).But now, more than a decade after those decisions upholding the Fi …"

Starr Struck: Part two

By Florence George Graves

BOSTON, April 1, 1998 — While the Hubbell Subpoena merited page one treatment in The Times, there was far less coverage, mostly brief mentio

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"… ir sources.The celebrated decision involved three cases, including that of New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell, who was subpoenaed to appear before a federal gran …"

"… set a bad legal precedent.But other factors may have played a role. Former New York Times general counsel Goodale points out that the networks are now owned by larg …"

"… well as confidential sources and information.”After Starr backed off, a New York Times editorial gave the prosecutor the back of the hand. “Whether Mr. Starr h …"

Starr Struck: Part one

By Florence George Graves

BOSTON, April 1, 1998 — The Kenneth Starr assailed by the Clinton administration as an agent of a vast right-wing conspiracy is the same Ken

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"… yers. He came onto the national scene when he successfully represented The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case after the newspaper published articles in 1971 …"

"… subpoenaed any of the paper’s materials.Representatives of NBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Newsweek, U.S. News & Worl …"

"… ho represents book publisher William Morrow, and James Goodale, the former New York Times general counsel perhaps best known for his role in the Pentagon Papers cas …"

"… that a front page, above-the-fold article about the battle appeared in The New York Times, Starr dropped his effort to obtain the editorial material.More recently, …"

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