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Justice: No misconduct in declining to prosecute Ted Stevens witness Bill Allen on sex charges

The Justice Department said Friday that its investigators had found no misconduct in the decision by federal prosecutors to abandon the teen sex-crime case against disgraced former Veco Corp. Chairman Bill Allen, the government’s star witness in the failed prosecution of then-Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. » read more

Posted on Fri, May 25, 2012

Justice Dept.: Two Sen. Ted Stevens trial prosecutors acted with reckless misconduct

The Justice Department's internal watchdog office has concluded that two federal prosecutors acted with reckless misconduct in the botched case against then-Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and should be suspended without pay but not fired. » read more

Posted on Fri, May 25, 2012

Diplomat with Cuba experience to handle White House's Latin America policy

A State Department veteran of Cuba affairs, Ricardo Zuniga, will move over to White House to replace Dan Restrepo as the National Security Council's lead man on Latin America policy, the NSC has announced. » read more

Posted on Thu, May 24, 2012

Feds struggle with getting elderly, disabled back into community

A multibillion-dollar federal initiative to move low-income elderly and disabled people from long-term care facilities into the community has fallen far short of its goals, as many states have struggled to cobble together housing and other services. » read more

Posted on Thu, May 24, 2012

Video: Students give Congress a mouthful in healthy cooking contest

Students from around the country visited Washington to compete in the Cooking Up Change contest and ask Congress for additional funding for healthier food in schools. (Video by Elise Brown, Medill News Service) » read more

Posted on Tue, May 22, 2012

Obama addresses Joplin High School grads on eve of tornado's anniversary

President Barack Obama told the graduating seniors of Joplin High School Monday night that they and their city had inspired the world. Speaking on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the mile-wide tornado that shredded their city, Obama said Joplin’s lesson is that lives are defined not by what happens to people, but by how they respond. » read more

Posted on Tue, May 22, 2012

New national registry lists exonerations from wrongful convictions

Obie Anthony served hard time in California prisons for a crime he didn’t commit. » read more

Posted on Mon, May 21, 2012

NATO leaders agree on exit plan for Afghanistan

President Barack Obama and NATO allies on Sunday charted an outwardly confident path to a postwar Afghanistan, their talk tempered by a potential split in the coalition and warnings that bloodshed will continue, and perhaps escalate, when allied troops withdraw. » read more

Posted on Sun, May 20, 2012

World leaders urge mix of economic growth, austerity for ailing Europe

President Barack Obama declared “genuine progress” Saturday at the close of a summit with world leaders, saying they had agreed Europe’s debt crisis needs a jolt of growth, along with tough financial restraints. » read more

Posted on Sat, May 19, 2012

New opium production bodes ill for Afghan security

Four years ago, Afghan and U.S. officials touted Nangarhar as a model for Afghanistan’s other 33 provinces, bolstered by successes against the Taliban and the near-total eradication of opium poppies. » read more

Posted on Fri, May 18, 2012

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