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With a record 720 dissenting opinions to his credit, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens joked that he should be given “a lifetime failure award.”
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Across the river from Belinda Elida Barja’s two-room apartment, the lead and zinc smelters of Doe Run Peru spread smoke and dust in the mountain town of La Oroya.
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The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure to regulate political spending by nonprofit groups, now faces investigations into its scrutiny of some organizations seeking nonprofit status.
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Intruders repeatedly broke into the West, Texas, fertilizer plant that exploded last month, revealing what critics called a pattern of inadequate security.
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President Barack Obama asked his nominees for Commerce secretary and trade ambassador to revive U.S. export growth as the administration’s goal of doubling overseas sales by the end of next year slips out of reach.
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Federal Election Commissioner Caroline Hunter’s term expires today, which means all of the commission members are now serving on borrowed time.
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Texas officials, appearing at a hearing on last month’s deadly blast at a fertilizer plant, defended the state’s oversight and said regulations are adequate to prevent future catastrophes.
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With two schools near a plant storing ammonium nitrate -- the fertilizer used in the Oklahoma City bombing -- West, Texas, Superintendent Marty Crawford said he had always worried about an explosion like the one that happened last week.
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A study in 1,316 premature infants has drawn a reprimand from U.S. officials who say parents of the babies weren’t adequately advised of “reasonably foreseeable risks,” including blindness and death.
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The top lawyer at the U.S. regulator of national banks left a consulting job where she was paid $1.2 million and advised some of the biggest firms now overseen by her agency, her financial disclosures show.
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