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Walmart accepted clothing from banned Bangladesh factories

Michael Grabell (ProPublica) | 13/6/2013 @ 12:29pm

After the deadly building collapse in Bangladesh, Walmart released a list of factories it had banned. But it has continued receiving shipments from two of them More

How the government can still get your digital data without warrant

Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass (ProPublica) | 7/6/2013 @ 11:36am

Following reports that the FISA Court has granted an FBI request requiring Verizon to turn over telephone call data to the NSA, we've updated this story to show what information law enforcement agencies can get on you without establishing More

Five ways Congress is trying to curb rape in the military

Christie Thompson (ProPublica) | 6/6/2013 @ 5:03pm

A breakdown of the key proposals, and the debate they are stirring on Capitol Hill More

US exempts India and 8 others from sanctions for Iranian oil

Moneylife Digital Team | 6/6/2013 @ 10:18am

US Secretary of State John Kerry said that India and eight other nations have qualified for an exception to sanctions under America's Iran Sanctions Act, based on additional significant reductions in the volume of their crude oil purchases from Iran More

What happened to Obama's Afghan massacre investigation?

Cora Currier (ProPublica) | 5/6/2013 @ 4:37pm

In 2009, Obama pledged to reopen an inquiry into the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban POWs during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Four years later, there's no sign of progress More

Urea subsidy: Why not set up joint venture plants in the Gulf?

AK Ramdas | 4/6/2013 @ 12:20pm

The government and or urea manufacturers must seriously consider setting up overseas units in the Gulf so as to get the best advantage in the present circumstances. Such a move would bring in bilateral benefit whereby India can assure these overseas partners that their foodgrain supply will be guaranteed More

Now, you cannot ban guns at the public pool in the US

Lois Beckett (ProPublica) | 4/6/2013 @ 11:49am

In a decades-long campaign to deny cities in the US, power to regulate guns, even the smallest local rules are now coming under attack More

A case to make prosecutors personally accountable

Joe Sexton (ProPublica) | 3/6/2013 @ 11:07am

Alexina Simon was picked up as a witness in a minor criminal case. Prosecutors in Queens held her over two days without a lawyer. Now, she wants to hold them to pay individually for what she says was misconduct More

Money laundering: US indicts seven people in $6 billion Liberty Reserve fraud

Moneylife Digital Team | 29/5/2013 @ 12:07pm

The money laundering network, which had spread its wings to 17 countries, including US, UK, China, Russian, Canada, Australia among others was run by a Costa Rican company Liberty Reserve More

As need for new flood maps rises, Congress and Obama cut funding

Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) | 29/5/2013 @ 12:01pm

Funding to update the US's decades-old flood maps has been cut in half in recent years, even as extreme weather has grown more frequent More

90% in the US Ill-equipped To Deal with Retirement

Moneylife Digital Team | 29/5/2013 @ 11:25am

Sometimes critical illness is priced too high More

Shockingly Low Awareness of Credit Scores in the US

Moneylife Digital Team | 29/5/2013 @ 11:23am

A large number of Americans know little about credit scores. More

Japan: Blunted arrows of Abeconomics

William Gamble | 27/5/2013 @ 11:52am

The course Shinzo Abe is following is not unique to Japan. Central bankers, by following Japan, are making the same mistake over stimulus and reforms. Stimulus alone without the most important part, reforms, is simply a recipe for trouble More

US lauds India’s efforts to reduce oil imports from Iran; hints at new waiver

Moneylife Digital Team | 24/5/2013 @ 4:58pm

India and some other countries such as China and Japan have cut their oil imports from Iran to secure waivers. This enables them to continue imports of oil to some quantity without facing a backlash from the US More

A prosecutor, a wrongful conviction and a question of justice

Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica) | 24/5/2013 @ 11:20am

Jabbar Collins spent 16 years in prison for murder before he won his freedom and a chance to take on the man who put him behind bars. ProPublica examines the career of that prosecutor, Michael Vecchione, the allegations against him, and what strikes many as an inexplicable lack of accountability More