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  • Gov't contractors face mounting problems amid slimdown

    Published October 08, 2013

    They are known derisively by some as "Beltway bandits." But the hundreds of government contractors -- from mammoth defense operations to tiny small software firms -- that ring the Beltway and beyond are now beginning to suffer tangible effects from the government slimdown. 

  • Widespread fraud reported in Social Security Administration's Disability Program

    Published October 08, 2013

    A two-year investigation by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has found widespread fraud in the Social Security Administration's Disability Program.

  • New study says threat of man-made global warming greatly exaggerated

    Published September 19, 2013

    A peer-reviewed climate change study released Wednesday by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change finds the threat of man-made global warming to be not only greatly exaggerated but so small as to be “embedded within the background variability of the natural climate system” and not dangerous.

  • Cell phone data latest threat to privacy

    Published August 22, 2013

    Amid concerns from privacy advocates about the government’s sprawling surveillance programs, the Obama administration earlier this month petitioned the Supreme Court in support of a federal court ruling that allowed police searches of cell phones records without a warrant.

  • Obama forges ahead with green energy agenda despite congressional opposition

    Published August 17, 2013

    For the first time since the Carter Administration, solar panels are going up on the roof of the White House. It's part of a mandate towards renewable energy in the federal government, but also a symbolic gesture that the president is plowing ahead with his green energy agenda, regardless of congressional opposition.

  • Security at nation's nuclear facilities vulnerable to terrorist attack, report says

    Published August 16, 2013

    Security at the nation’s nuclear facilities is vulnerable to terrorist attack, a Pentagon-commissioned study reported Thursday. What’s more, it said potential terrorist theft of enough nuclear material to construct an improvised fission bomb “is a real possibility."

  • AFL-CIO tries to regroup as American support for unions declines

    Published August 14, 2013

    It was an unexpected and blunt admission by one of the nation’s most powerful labor leaders: "We are in crisis, and we have to do things differently," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last week.

  • Proposed new federal rule could put 'big brother' in your driver's seat

    Published August 12, 2013

    A proposed federal rule that would require black boxes or event data recorders in every U.S. automobile may mean “Big Brother” could be in your passenger seat for every drive.

     

  • Obama administration using housing department in effort to diversify neighborhoods

    Published August 08, 2013

    The policy called, "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing," will require HUD to gather data on segregation and discrimination in every single neighborhood and try to remedy it.

  • US imposes tough penalties on commercial drivers who use cell phones, but tough to tell if they're working

    Published August 06, 2013

    The Spanish train operator who sped through a turn at over twice the posted speed limit, killing 79 people last month, was so distracted by a call from a colleague on his work phone that he ignored three computerized warnings to slow down. In the U.S., the Federal Railway Administration (FRA) banned the use of phones by operators in 2010. "If they are caught violating the rules, they are dismissed immediately, or are fined or both," said Martin Shroeder of the American Public Transportation Association.