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Housing is usually more stable because the motivations of the buyers are for long-term occupancy rather than exclusively for profit. But by rigging the market toward speculators, the Fed may have queered the pitch. Sadly, once the money has fuelled a boom, you can’t just take it...

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Christie Thompson (ProPublica) 09 May 2013
As Obama and the US drug czar roll out their 2013 plan, here is a look at what's in it, and what they have done so far When the Obama administration released its 2013 Drug Control Strategy recently, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske called it a “21st century” approach to drug policy. “It should...

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Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 08 May 2013
What actually happened in the US in the two months since the across-the-board budget cuts took effect? We have updated our sequestration explainer to reflect new developments. It was originally published on April 11, 2013.   When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 May 2013
Dhaka magistrate has directed police to investigate a complaint filed by the wife of a victim who had alleged that her husband and other workers were 'pushed to death' by the building owner Police in Bangladesh are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily...

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Sergio Hernandez (Special to ProPublica) 07 May 2013
When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Cathie Black to be schools chancellor, a lowly intern filed a freedom of information request that the city fought for two years. Now, that intern reflects on why the mayor tried so hard to keep secret emails that turned out to be innocuous In...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 May 2013
Bank of America agreed to pay $1.7 billion to MBIA and will also receive right to buy a 4.9% stake in the bond insurer ending their legal dispute over mortgage-backed securities Bank of America said it would pay $1.7 billion to bond insurer MBIA (Municipal Bond Insurance Association) to...

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Christie Thompson (ProPublica) 29 April 2013
The Senate's immigration overhaul would allocate $4.5 billion in new border spending. We take a look at the current proposal, and how border money's been spent (and wasted) in the past Federal spending on border security is at an all-time high —and it would get even higher under the Gang...

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Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 26 April 2013
Seven different agencies regulate fertilizer plants in Texas, but none of them have authority over how close they are to homes and schools April 25: This post has been corrected.   A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200,...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 25 April 2013
As military contractors fight budget cuts, they get a friendly face on the Senate Armed Services Committee Last year, we told you about how former Lockheed Martin executive Ann Sauer had been hired to be the top Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee.   Sauer got...

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Marian Wang (ProPublica) 24 April 2013
Prospective students have long looked to low acceptance rates, high number of applications and other factors to determine how prestigious a college is and whether they should apply. However, colleges have found ways to make their institutions seem more appealing   As college-bound...

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Charles Seife  and   Rob Garver (Special to ProPublica) 23 April 2013
ProPublica had reported that the FDA allowed drugs to stay on the market despite the fact that the research underpinning their safety and efficacy was tainted by fraud. New information shows that even after the FDA had cited the lab for falsifying data, the agency issued at least one brand...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 22 April 2013
Counterterror officials say the emerging portrait suggests the brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev slipped into Islamic extremism under the influence of Internet propaganda April 20: This story has been corrected.   As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 April 2013
The arrest came a day after the Islamabad High Court ordered the arrest of Gen Musharraf for not cooperating with police officials investigating a case registered against him for detaining dozens of judges, including Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, during the 2007 emergency

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 April 2013
The blast took place last night at the West Fertilizer plant in the town of West, outside Waco, with more than 130 people evacuated from a nearby nursing home, and at least 100 patients admitted to hospitals following the incident   A massive blast ripped through a fertilizer plant in...

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Rob Garver  and   Charles Seife (Special to ProPublica) 18 April 2013
This week ProPublica reported that the Food and Drug Administration found "egregious" research violations at a major laboratory but did not pull any affected drugs from the market and, years later, has not finished its review. Turns out that wasn't an anomaly This week, we reported that...

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Rob Garver  and   Charles Seife (Special to ProPublica) 17 April 2013
In 2010, the US FDA uncovered violations it later called "egregious" and "pervasive" at a major pharmaceutical testing lab. But even though the agency no longer knew for sure that drugs tested there were safe, it allowed them to remain on pharmacy shelves with no new testing - in some cases...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 April 2013
The two blasts occurred within seconds at a sidewalk along the route of the Boston Marathon, where thousands of people had lined up to cheer on the marathoners   At least three persons were killed and over 130 sustained injuries when two powerful explosions rocked the US city of...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 12 April 2013
Defense attorneys for men accused of terrorism before military commissions at Guantanamo Bay believe their email communications have been searched and even tampered with The long-troubled military trials at Guantanamo Bay were hit by revelations earlier this year that a secret censor had...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 10 April 2013
The 2012 Obama campaign set the bar for the use of voter data. The Republicans aren't interested in being beaten again The Republicans have admitted it: They need to get serious about collecting and analyzing voter data.   Well, you can't get much more serious than talking to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 April 2013
Thatcher’s government privatised several state-owned industries. She was also in power when the UK went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982 Britain’s first woman prime minister Margaret Thatcher, known as the “Iron Lady”, today passed away following a stroke at the...

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