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Jul 29, 2010	Justice Department reviewing reports of FBI test cheating QUOTE: The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General has launched an investigation into whether large numbers of FBI agents may have improperly taken a test on guidelines for agents, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 29, 2010	Citigroup Said to Pay $75 Million in Subprime Case QUOTE: Citigroup has agreed to pay $75 million to settle federal claims that it failed to disclose vast holdings of subprime mortgage investments that crippled the bank during the financial crisis, according to two people briefed on the settlement.	New York Times
Jul 29, 2010	Obama Takes On Critics of Education Plan QUOTE: Saying that reforming education is perhaps “the economic issue of our time,” President Obama went before a major civil rights organization on Thursday to defend his main education program against criticisms from some minority and teachers groups.	New York Times
Jul 29, 2010	Estimate Rises of Oil Spill in Michigan QUOTE: More than one million gallons of oil may have spilled from a pipeline into the Kalamazoo River this week, significantly more than the pipeline’s owner initially estimated, federal officials said.	New York Times
Jul 29, 2010	Britain Plans to Scrap Mandatory Retirement Age in 2011 QUOTE: The British government on Thursday proposed to scrap a much-criticized rule that allows employers to require workers to retire when they turn 65.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	Global warming: battle over California ballot initiative heats up QUOTE: Backers of Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend AB 32, California’s 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, filed suit in Sacramento Superior Court Tuesday against Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown for what they called “false, misleading and unfair” language that would describe the measure on voters’ ballots.	Los Angeles Times
Jul 28, 2010	Job Subsidies Providing Help to Private Side QUOTE: States are putting hundreds of thousands of people directly into jobs through programs reminiscent of the more ambitious work projects of the Great Depression. But the new efforts have a twist: While the wages are being paid by the government, most of the participants are working for private companies.	New York Times
Jul 28, 2010	Cell phones save lives in Rwandan villages QUOTE: Nearly 500 volunteer community health care workers in the rural district of Musanze have been given free phones so they can keep track of all the pregnant women in their villages.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 28, 2010	Oklahoma county must pay up in Ten Commandments case QUOTE: The Haskell County, Oklahoma, Commission has 10 years to pay attorneys' fees of $199,000 after it was forced to remove an 8-foot-tall Ten Commandments monument. The county has been in litigation with the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma since 2006, after it allowed a resident to pay for and erect the granite monument on the courthouse lawn in Stigler.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 28, 2010	Arizona Ruling Acts as a Warning to Other States QUOTE: The decision by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to throw the federal government’s weight against Arizona, on an issue that has aroused passions among state residents, has irritated many state governors, and nine states filed papers supporting Arizona in the court case.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	House Approves Money for Wars, but Rift Deepens QUOTE: The House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday to provide $59 billion to continue financing America’s two wars, but the vote showed deepening divisions and anxiety among Democrats over the course of the nearly nine-year-old conflict in Afghanistan.	New York Times
Jul 27, 2010	How Many State Workers? Albany Doesn’t Know QUOTE: As Gov. David A. Paterson calls lawmakers back to work on the budget this week, he has announced that the fiscal situation is so serious that he must begin laying off state workers. But there is one wrinkle, as officials try to pare government spending: No one knows for sure how big the state work force actually is.	New York Times
Jul 26, 2010	New Health Official Faces Hostility in Senate QUOTE: And he [Dr. Donald M. Berwick] is finding his ability to do his job clouded by the circumstances of his appointment, with many Republicans in open revolt over President Obama’s decision to place him in the post without a Senate confirmation vote.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	U.N. Court Rules Kosovo Declaration Was Legal QUOTE: Legal experts emphasized that while the court had ruled that Kosovo’s declaration of independence was legal, it had scrupulously avoided saying that the state of Kosovo was legal under international law, a narrow and carefully calibrated compromise that they said could allow both sides to declare victory in a dispute that remains raw even 11 years after the war there.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	U.S. Challenges Arizona Immigration Law In Court QUOTE: U.S. President Barack Obama's administration heads to court on Thursday in a showdown over whether Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants encroaches on federal authority over immigration policy and enforcement.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	Europe Turns Ear Toward Voice of the People QUOTE: Long criticized as lacking democratic accountability, the European Union is about to give its 500 million citizens more say — if they can collect one million supporting signatures from a “significant” number of member countries.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2010	U.S. to Impose More Sanctions Against North Korea QUOTE: “These measures [further economic sanctions] are not directed at the people of North Korea, who have suffered for too long due to the misguided and maligned priorities of their government,” Mrs. Clinton said at a news conference, flanked by Mr. Gates and South Korea’s defense and foreign ministers. “They are directed at the destabilizing, illicit, and provocative policies pursued by that government.”	New York Times
Jul 21, 2010	Power of the Purse Comes With a Pinch QUOTE: All 212 senators and Assembly members [of Albany] have gone without a paycheck since the beginning of April. That is the penalty New York law imposes for missing the April 1 deadline for a new budget.	New York Times
Jul 21, 2010	Oakland, Seeking Financial Lift, Approves Giant Marijuana Farms QUOTE: After hours of public testimony, the City Council [Oakland, California] voted 5 to 2 to permit large-scale indoor marijuana plantations. The struggling city, which faces a $31 million deficit and has a 17 percent unemployment rate, estimates that the marijuana factories could bring in as much as $38 million annually in fees and taxes.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Obama’s Overdue AIDS Bill QUOTE: President Obama added only $366 million to the [President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] program this year — well below the $1 billion per year he promised to add when he was on the campaign trail.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	Media Seek Looser Guantánamo Rules QUOTE: A coalition of news organizations has demanded that the Pentagon’s public affairs office rescind parts of its guidelines for reporting on Guantánamo.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2010	City Adds to Asbestos Oversight QUOTE: Three months after a safety inspector admitted to falsifying hundreds of reports concluding that buildings were free of cancer-causing asbestos, the city agency that licensed him — and still licenses nearly 550 others — says it has taken steps to ensure better oversight.	New York Times
Jul 19, 2010	In Afghanistan, a Threat of Plunder QUOTE: How can Afghanistan ensure that its people benefit from its mineral wealth, and avoid resource-induced violence? There is a chain of decisions to get right, from managing the prospecting to investing the revenues. Many other countries have failed to make them wisely.	New York Times
Jul 15, 2010	An hour of work: What is it worth? QUOTE: This week lawmakers in Hong Kong are debating if the city should institute its first-ever minimum wage. Most other parts of the world, including mainland China, have enacted laws requiring companies pay employees above a certain amount on an hourly, daily or monthly basis. However, despite calls dating from more than a decade ago to establish a minimum wage here, Hong Kong still has no pay floor.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jun 25, 2010	In Deal, New Authority Over Wall Street QUOTE: An overhaul of the nation’s financial regulatory system, reached after an all-night Congressional horse-trading session, will vastly expand the authority of the federal government over Wall Street in a bid to curb the free-wheeling culture that led to the near collapse of the world economy in 2008.	New York Times
Sep 09, 2009	South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson shouts, 'You lie' at Obama QUOTE: Outburst came when Obama denied health care plan covered illegal immigrants.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Sep 08, 2009	U.S. in Delicate Spot Over Marred Afghan Vote QUOTE: On Monday, as the vote-counting in Afghanistan was nearing an end, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was briefed by the American ambassador in Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry.
Jun 11, 2009	Security Firm Is Pressed On U.S. Embassy Contract QUOTE: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William H. Moser told a Senate subcommittee on contracting oversight that the State Department... will renew its agreement with ArmorGroup North America (AGNA), despite lingering concerns about weapons shortages, the company's training programs and the poor English-language skills of some guards...	Washington Post
Jul 24, 2008	Italy to Jail Illegal Migrants: A new law makes undocumented migration a crime, punishable by up to four years in jail QUOTE: According to media reports, the legislation will introduce a new criminal offence—"illegal immigration"—punishable by six to four years in prison. The law also states that property rented to an undocumented immigrant can be confiscated.The maximum period an immigrant can be kept in detention after illegally setting foot on Italian territory will be extended to 18 months—which is in line with EU-wide rules on returning non-EU nationals who do not or no longer fulfill the conditions for entry, stay or residence in a member state.	BusinessWeek
Jul 23, 2008	Report Says Pentagon Pressured, Intimidated Auditors QUOTE: Auditors at an oversight agency of the Pentagon were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on a major defense contractor's work, hiding wrongdoing and charges of overbilling, according to an 80-page report from the Government Accountability Office.	Washington Post
Jul 21, 2008	New Regulator in Rescue Plan Spurs Debate QUOTE: While experts on the companies agree that the proposed regulator would be stronger than the existing one, housed in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, some contend that the legislation does not go far enough. These critics say that the measure tilts in favor of the companies, even as it tries to strike a balance between promoting affordable housing — a primary mission of the government-sponsored mortgage giants — and setting limits on them to diminish the risks they pose to the world financial system.	New York Times
Jul 20, 2008	Lawsuit Threatens Sarbanes-Oxley Act QUOTE: A sideways challenge to the law is before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The question: whether the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, created by Sarbanes-Oxley to clean up the Enron-tainted auditing profession, is constitutional.	Washington Post
Jul 19, 2008	Felons Seeking Bush Pardon Near a Record QUOTE: The requests are adding to a backlog of nearly 2,300 pending petitions, most from “ordinary people who committed garden-variety crimes,” said Margaret Colgate Love, a clemency lawyer. Ms. Love, who was the United States pardon attorney from 1990 to 1997, said the backlog was overwhelming the vetting system, meaning that many petitions might not reach Mr. Bush’s desk before he leaves office.	New York Times
Jul 19, 2008	A Veil Closes France’s Door to Citizenship QUOTE: “I would never have imagined that they would turn me down because of what I choose to wear,” Ms. Silmi said... But last month, France’s highest administrative court upheld a decision to deny citizenship to Ms. Silmi, 32, on the ground that her “radical” practice of Islam was incompatible with French values like equality of the sexes	New York Times
Jul 19, 2008	U.S. Position Complicates Global Effort to Curb Illicit Arms QUOTE: Diplomats from the world’s governments met throughout this week on agreements to cut the global illicit trade in small arms, but their work was curtailed in part by the near-boycott of the meetings by the United States.	New York Times
Jul 19, 2008	Failure to Fix Base Hazards Worried Pentagon Official QUOTE: In a May 5, 2008, e-mail message, a safety official at the Defense Contract Management Agency, the Pentagon organization in charge of supervising defense contractors in Iraq, noted that the agency had failed to act after its own comprehensive safety survey in February 2007 found widespread electrical problems at American bases that had led to a series of deaths, injuries and fires.	New York Times
Jul 18, 2008	Anti-Energy Speculation Bill Stirs Fear QUOTE: Financial industry executives are mustering on Capitol Hill to head off a Congressional effort to rewrite the rules for the nation’s energy markets, saying it could unsettle already nervous markets and push more energy trading abroad, beyond the reach of domestic regulators.	New York Times
Jul 18, 2008	Investigation of Iraq IG Ends With No Charges QUOTE: The federal government has dropped two investigations into the office of the inspector general overseeing Iraq reconstruction projects, according to a lawyer for the IG. In a July 3 letter, federal prosecutors said they had closed the criminal investigation of Stuart W. Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, according to Bowen's attorney Bradford Berenson.	Washington Post
Jul 18, 2008	Congressman Seeks Ethics Probe of Fundraising: Money to Be Used for Center in His Name QUOTE: Some ethics experts have called the entreaties troubling because some of the corporations and individuals the New York Democrat has approached, including insurance giant American International Group, have business interests before his committee. The panel has broad jurisdiction over tax and trade matters.	Washington Post
Jul 18, 2008	Universal Says DMCA Takedown Notices Can Ignore 'Fair Use' QUOTE: Universal Music told a federal judge here Friday that takedown notices requiring online video-sharing sites to automatically remove content need not consider whether videos are protected by the "fair use" doctrine...The music company made the argument Friday as part of a lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania woman whose 29-second video of her toddler dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was removed last year after Universal sent YouTube a takedown notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.	Wired
Jul 17, 2008	Report Finds Hazardous Conditions at Senior Centers (City Room) QUOTE: “Simply stated, D.F.T.A.’s lack of follow-up is putting seniors at risk for injury,” Mr. Thompson said, referring to the city’s Department for the Aging, which awards contracts to provide groups to run the centers.	New York Times
Jul 17, 2008	Argentina Blocks Farm Export Tax QUOTE: In a crushing defeat for Argentina’s beleaguered president, the Senate rejected increases in the agricultural export tax that have caused a farmer rebellion, with the vice president siding with farmers and casting the deciding vote. After nearly 18 hours of debate, the Senate voted, 37 to 36, on Thursday against the system of floating-rate taxes, which the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner imposed in March without consulting the Congress. The lower House narrowly approved the system, 129 to 122, after 19 hours of debate.	New York Times
Jul 17, 2008	Fund-Raiser Apparently Offers Access for a Price QUOTE: The White House on Wednesday disavowed the actions of a Houston businessman and Bush campaign fund-raiser who was caught on videotape apparently trying to trade access to top administration officials — including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — in exchange for six-figure donations to President Bush’s library foundation.	New York Times
Jul 17, 2008	Fed's Crisis Role Spurs Questions of Overreach QUOTE: "The Federal Reserve has re-created itself," said Vincent Reinhart, a senior staffer at the Fed until last summer who is now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "And if you do more things, you set yourself up to have to choose among them and trade off. What happens when concern for housing finance conflicts with the need to pursue price stability?"	Washington Post
Jul 16, 2008	G.O.P. Resistance May Delay Housing Legislation QUOTE: The reluctance by Republicans to embrace President Bush’s plan came as shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged again on Tuesday, raising the chances that the federal government might need to take over the companies — a prospect that some fiscal conservative lawmakers likened to socialism. “When I picked up my newspaper yesterday, I thought I woke up in France,” Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, said at a banking committee hearing. “But no, it turns out socialism is alive and well in America.”	New York Times
Jul 16, 2008	Problems Persist With Red Cross Blood Services QUOTE: The situation has proved so frustrating that in January the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration attended a Red Cross board meeting — a first for a commissioner — and warned members that they could face criminal charges for their continued failure to bring about compliance, according to three Red Cross officials who attended the meeting and requested anonymity because Red Cross policy prohibits public discussion of its meetings with regulators.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2008	A 1913 Law Dies to Better Serve Gay Marriages QUOTE: Massachusetts may have been the first state to legalize same-sex marriage for its residents, but when California last month invited out-of-state gay and lesbian couples to get married, the potential economic benefits did not go unnoticed here... The repeal, which passed with no objections on a voice vote, is expected to pass the House later this week. Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat and a supporter of same-sex marriage whose 18-year-old daughter recently disclosed publicly that she is a lesbian, has said he will sign the repeal.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2008	Rule Drafted for Carbon Trapping QUOTE: The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday a first draft of a rule that will govern injecting carbon dioxide into underground storage. Development of such a rule is essential before companies can build power plants that will capture and store their carbon dioxide to limit the buildup of global warming gases.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2008	S.E.C. Unveils Measures to Limit Short-Selling QUOTE: The Securities and Exchange Commission, under pressure to respond to the tumult in the financial industry, announced emergency measures on Tuesday to curb certain kinds of short-selling that aims at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Wall Street banks. The chairman of the S.E.C., Christopher Cox, said the commission would institute an order to limit the ability of traders to bet against the shares of Fannie and Freddie, the mortgage finance giants, which plunged again on Tuesday.	New York Times
Jul 15, 2008	Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions QUOTE: President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision.	New York Times

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