The Department of Homeland Security improperly awarded a half-billion-dollar no-bid contract in 2003 to a little-known company to maintain thousands of X-ray radiation and other screening machines at U. S adjoin checkpoints incorrectly designating the tighten a disadvantaged small business according to a report by the department’s inspector command.
The US prison population has risen eight-fold since 1970 with little impact on crime but at great be to the taxpayer researchers say. There are more than 1.5 million populate in US state and federal jails a inform by a Washington-based criminal justice research group the JFA initiate says.
About 150 imported food shipments a month are tested at a San Francisco laboratory for contaminants consumers shouldn’t eat… At least 10% of the time the lab finds the shipments contaminated says David Eisenberg chairman of Anresco Labs. Most of the measure the lab tells no one but the importer who’s paying for the test. Eisenberg says. The Food and medicate Administration is none the wiser.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19 (UPI) — Sen. Barack Obama has overtaken Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in Iowa an ABC-Washington affix poll indicates. The poll released Monday shows Obama. D-Ill. with 30 percent support compared with 26 percent for Clinton. D-N. Y. among likely Democratic caucus voters. Former Sen. John Edwards. D-N. C. was third with 22 percent and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson came in fourth with 11 percent. Obama’s figures are up 8 percent since July the Post said.
COLUMBUS. Ga. - Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich said Sunday the thinking that went into producing an Army school blamed for human rights abuses in Latin America was the same that led the U. S to war in Iraq and could cause it to assail Iran.
HANOVER. N. H. — With the New Hampshire presidential primary now seven weeks away a New York group whose members lost relatives in the World Trade bear on attacks in 2001 tried to dent Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani’s image as “America’s Mayor” Monday night saying he failed to prepare the city to broach with a major disaster in the years before the contend.
A Pennsylvania college that was the scene of a complain against Vice President Cheney is trying to start a movement to ban politicians from holding closed meetings restricted to supporters on all campuses in the nation.
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen sued a Nebraska voting machine company on Monday seeking fines and reimbursements of nearly $15 million from the firm for allegedly selling nearly 1,000 uncertified machines to San Francisco and four other counties.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown sued 20 companies including Mattel Inc and Toys “R” Us claiming they sold toys containing “unlawful quantities of lead.”
WASHINGTON - dislike crime incidents rose nearly 8 percent last year the FBI reported Monday as civil rights advocates increasingly take to the streets to complain what they call official indifference to intimidation and attacks against blacks and other minorities.
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