Mafia Looking For Cut Of Stimulus Pie
Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing proje...
Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing proje...
Brad Friedman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly.
STL Today | Tony Messenger, Robert Patrick, and Jake Wagman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
A federal search warrant obtained by the Post-Dispatch connects a former Democratic campaign strategist to a Clayton bombing last year that seriously ...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller sharply criticized Scotland's justice minister for releasing the Lockerbie bomber, an act that "gives c...
nytimes.com | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $50,000 reward for a Seattle man it says is a domestic terrorist. But that has not kept him from kee...
Geri Spieler | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
Two women, two potential presidential assassins, are free today, 34 years after they attempted to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford.
washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
U.S. airlines on Saturday will begin asking travelers to provide their birth date and sex for the first time under a new aviation security requirement...
Geri Spieler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.
Abukar Arman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
We must build bona fide bridges of understanding to significantly reduce elements hindering the ability of the US and Muslim world to work together on critical issues of mutual importance.
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess And Emily Witt | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Seven months after the federal government gave final approval to a controversial plan to collect DNA samples from undocumented immigrants, the program...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
Two years ago, it's fair to say, Casey Serin hit bottom. A bottom lower than most of us could go -- a bottom that would make most of us nauseous and curl into fetal position, whimpering.
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard Peltier finally leaving prison inspires a longing that cuts to the depths of the soul.
Gallup | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
At a time when Americans are discouraged about the direction of the country and hesitant about the scope of President Barack Obama's federal budget pl...
Timothy Karr | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
New Jersey's progressive movement should see Cammarano's demise as an opportunity. It's our chance to pry the state's Democratic Party from the patronage system that put "business as usual" before accountability.
Brad Friedman | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
How it's even possible that former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman's bribery case and conviction has not long ago been dropped by the Dept. of Justice is beyond us.
Derek Beres | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
One quote from Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano from the Criminal Complaint against him paints a picture of what was going on during his election process.
New York Daily News | Kenneth Lovett | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York
ALBANY - Indicted former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's spokesman was subpoenaed by the FBI Tuesday - a day after ripping the federal prosecutor i...
Peter Lance | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent me a letter threatening to sue for libel if a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Two U.S. marshals are being sent to escort an alleged KKK fugitive wanted by the FBI who has been arrested in Israel back to the U.S., reports CNN. M...
nytimes.com | ANDREA ELLIOTT | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
The Carlson School of Management rises from the asphalt like a monument to capitalist ambition. Stock prices race across an electronic ticker near a s...
Courthouse News | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
The first full-time female FBI agent to be stationed at Guantanamo says she was made to bunk with vermin that gave her a tropical disease and was ostr...
James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.
Janet Murguía | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Hate has always been present. But the recent spike in violence against immigrants is being fanned by the flames of the anger and hateful rhetoric being voiced in the debate over immigration.
Matthew Goldstein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business
Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs' secret sauce? While most in the US were celebrating the 4th of July, a Russian immigrant living in New Jersey...
New York Times | WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York