Government turns heat on employers over job bias
WASHINGTON (AP) — It started with allegations of hangman's nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill.Four years...
View ArticlePartisan Dems, GOP can only agree defense cuts bad
WASHINGTON (AP) — The only thing a bitterly partisan Congress can agree on as it heads for the exits is that looming defense cuts will have a devastating effect on the military.Aside from that, a House...
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Uncle Sam a tax scofflaw
If Uncle Sam wants to find tax scofflaws, he might want to look within.At least 70 federal agencies were delinquent on taxes at the end of last year, owing about $14 million, according to the Treasury...
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Audit: USAID Haiti work 'not on track'
A newly released audit says the largest U.S. contractor working to stabilize Haiti after the 2010 earthquake is "not on track" to complete its assignments on schedule, has a weak monitoring system and...
View ArticleReturning veterans swell ranks of US entrepreneurs
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As a truck driver for the U.S. military in wartime Iraq, Ed Young racked up 7,000 miles, facing a constant threat of attack that left him struggling with depression and suicidal...
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Agents Ammo
WASHINGTON (AP) — Online rumors about a big government munitions purchase are true, sort of.The Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next four or...
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The New Sheriff
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Jo White vowed Tuesday to make "bold and unrelenting" enforcement of Wall Street a high priority if she is confirmed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.White, a...
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Govt shuts more than 30 tax preparers in 6 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the April 15 federal income tax deadline approaches, the Justice Department says it has closed more than 30 unscrupulous tax preparers and tax fraud promoters in the last six...
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