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Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 05 April 2013
A ruling in a similar case last year suggests that judges do not have the authority to reject settlements in which firms neither admit nor deny wrongdoing Judge Victor Marrero last week became the latest federal judge to question a time-honored tactic of federal regulators: negotiating...

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Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica)  and   Sergio Hernandez (Special to ProPublica) 04 April 2013
The innocent can wind up in prison. The guilty can be set free. But New York City prosecutors who withhold evidence, tolerate false testimony or commit other abuses almost never see their careers damaged The murder case against Tony Bennett seemed pretty straightforward.   Shortly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 March 2013
North Korea said in the event of any 'reckless' US provocation, its forces should mercilessly strike the US mainland, military bases in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea North Korea, in a direct response to the US' threat to use nuclear capable stealth...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 29 March 2013
Human rights researchers years ago identified a man who may have been held secretly by the CIA, and whose whereabouts were unknown. It appears that man is now in custody in New York Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam...

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The Cyprus shock gives us an opportunity to trim our ambitions and tailor our projects and programmes in such a way as to harmonise them with resource availability. Taking a lesson, Kerala should also review its half-baked investment ideas that are being pushed through by the neo-rich and...

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Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 19 March 2013
The Gulf kingdom welcomes the International Peace Institute even as it bars some human rights advocates and journalists from the country As Bahrain enters the third year of a crisis sparked by Arab Spring protests in 2011, the government continues to bar many human rights advocates and  

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 18 March 2013
Deutsche Bank agrees to pay $17.5 million to Massachusetts for a deal involving Magnetar, the hedge fund behind many CDOs gone sour Deutsche Bank is the latest financial institution to be fined for not warning investors about the role of the hedge fund Magnetar in creating complex...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 14 March 2013
The White House announced 17 pardons on Friday. But Obama has still granted clemency at a lower rate than his predecessors On Friday, President Obama pardoned 17 people. But despite the new pardons, the Obama administration has still granted clemency more rarely than any president in...

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Lois Beckett (ProPublica) 13 March 2013
The companies that sell information about how much money you make — and whether you’re pregnant, divorced, or trying to lose weight — are facing new scrutiny in the US Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about...

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Tracy Weber  and   Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 12 March 2013
New data show drugmakers' payments to hundreds of thousands of doctors in the US, and some have made well over $500,000 Update Mar. 11, 2013, 4:55 pm: This post has been updated to reflect a response by Dr. Vladimir Maletic to questions from ProPublica.   Dr. Jon W. Draud, the...

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Cora Currier  and   Justin Elliott (ProPublica) 27 February 2013
The focus on the targeting of American citizens overlooks "signature strikes," in which drone operators fire on people whose identities they do not know based on evidence of suspicious behaviour or other "signatures” The nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director has prompted intense...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 February 2013
After reviewing Goldman Sachs’ 542 pages of billing records related to the case, the judge however cut the bill by 10% noting that there were some extraneous entries in the 542 pages of billing records submitted by the firm India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta has been...

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Abrahm Lustgarten (ProPublica) 26 February 2013
Native Americans on an oil-rich reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices - and the federal government failed in its legal obligation to ensure a fair deal, lawsuits claim Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 February 2013
Over the past few days, Malik has repeatedly ridiculed the Taliban’s offer of peace talks, saying a dialogue can be held only if the banned group lays down arms and declares a month-long ceasefire The Taliban in Pakistan Taliban has labelled the county's Interior Minister Rehman Malik as...

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Christie Thompson (ProPublica) 21 February 2013
A big potential drawback to the convenience of absentee and mail voting: Studies in the US show that ballots are rejected at a higher rate than for voters who brave the wait at polling places In his State of the Union address, President Obama returned to a point he’d made on election...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 14 February 2013
In 2009, ProPublica identified more than thirty prisoners once held by the CIA who weren't accounted for. Since then, a few have resurfaced and many remain missing In one of President Barack Obama first acts in the White House, he ordered the closure of the CIA’s so-called “black-site”...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 February 2013
The arrest warrant follows Nasheed’s failure to attend his previously scheduled trial hearing at Hulhumale’ Magistrate Court on 10th February as he was on a visit to India Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed sought refuge in the Indian High Commission in Male after an arrest...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 February 2013
Italian police has arrested Giuseppe Orsi, chief executive of the country’s largest defence and aerospace group. The Finmeccanica CEO is alleged to have paid $670 million in bribes for the sale of 12 helicopters to the Government of India Giuseppe Orsi, chief executive of Italy’s largest...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2013
In recent months, the 85-year-old German-born Pope, hailed as a hero by conservative Catholics and viewed with suspicion by liberals, has looked increasingly frail in public sometimes being helped to walk Pope Benedict XVI on Monday announced that he would resign on 28th February. The...

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Nikole Hannah-Jones (ProPublica) 11 February 2013
The Obama administration is preparing to issue a rule setting a single standard for proving violations of the Fair Housing Act - just as the Supreme Court signals it may take up a challenge to the measure UPDATE: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the final...

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