After a disabled borrower’s six-year ordeal, bureaucracy finally forgives student loan

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After six years battling Education Department, the government finally has forgiven Tina Brooks.

Not just Alaska: Boston reporter stopped by police after questioning candidate

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Word spread quickly Saturday that an Alaska journalist was detained by private security guards at a town hall event for Republican Joe Mille

Homeland Security’s billion-dollar bet on better communications

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Interoperability money aids Motorola and other contractors, but are first responders better off?
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FEC penalties plummet even as campaign spending hits record high

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As outside spending to influence elections soared in 2010, the federal agency charged with enforcing election laws handed out some of the sm

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On the night of September 30, 2004, few of the estimated 62.4 million viewers watching President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry squar

After Moscow bombings, U.S. subways still vulnerable to terrorism

By John Solomon

A sarin gas attack on Japan's subway system in 1995. A foiled subway terror plot in New York City. Attacks on underground trains in London i
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Federal red tape traps disabled borrowers with student loan debt

Borrowers who become severely disabled can get federal student loans forgiven, but the program for deciding whether they qualify is a dysfun

The loneliness of El Diario of Juárez

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A Colombian journalist spends three days with reporters from Juárez, Mexico’s most violent city

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Who suffers when a prosecutor is cited for misconduct?

A poisoned prosecution

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Misconduct in sexual abuse cases damages reputations—and can ruin lives

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