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The arrest of a National Security Agency contractor for allegedly stealing classified information was the second known case of a government contractor being publicly accused of removing secret data from the intelligence agency since 2013. The latest arrest came despite efforts to reform security after the Edward Snowden disclosures, especially in regards to insider threats.
A U.S. Department of Labor report released today details the bleak fate facing the nation's injured workers, noting that those hurt on the job are at "great risk of falling into poverty" because state workers' compensation systems are failing to provide them with adequate benefits. The report lays the groundwork for renewed federal oversight of state workers' comp programs, providing a detailed history of the government's past efforts to step in when states fell short.
Another 102 prison inmates learned Thursday their sentences are being reduced by a stroke of President Barack Obama's pen, the latest batch in a record-setting effort by the White House to reverse harsh sentences for mostly nonviolent drug offenders. Obama has now granted clemency to 774 individuals, the vast majority of whom were serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
IT WAS a case of the dog that didn't bark. For 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in their first presidential debate on a full range of issues.
A day after framing President Barack Obama's signature health care law as crazy, former President Bill Clinton is trying to avoid muddling his message again as he touts Hillary Clinton's plans on the economy. Bill Clinton only briefly mentioned health care during the Ohio University speech campaigning for his wife.
In this June 23, 2010 file photo, then-Puerto Rican Sen. Hector Martinez-Maldonado talks to reporters outside federal court in San Juan. The Supreme Court seems skeptical of Martinez-Maldonado's bid to avoid a second trial on bribery charges.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks to a crowd at the Dow Event Center in Saginaw, Mich. while campaigning for his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, on Monday,, Oct. 3, 2016.
This undated booking photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows James McKinney. The Supreme Court won't hear Arizona's appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned McKinney's death sentence and opened the door for other death row inmates in the state to challenge their sentences.
The New Jersey-based, Nasdaq-listed firm made a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on September 30, saying it was conducting an "internal investigation" into the matter. IMPROPER PAYMENTS for gaining permits and building licences for some of its 12 facilities in India have landed the country's third largest IT-BPO sector employer, Cognizant Technologies Solutions, in trouble.
Is judicial engagement little more than a camouflaged appeal for more libertarian judicial outcomes? Not a bit of it, argues Evan Bernick of the Center for Judicial Engagement, responding to a critique of his lead essay over at Cato Unbound. Click here to read more .
An evenly divided Supreme Court opens a new term this week with a few dozen mostly low-profile cases. But perhaps the biggest question of the year won't even be settled by the justices.
For 90 minutes this week, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in their first presidential debate on a full range of issues. But meriting not a single mention? Obamacare.
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit that sought retroactive payment for assisted-living services for people on Medicaid. The 2013 complaint said Ohio was illegally omitting Medicaid coverage for people between the time they required assisted-living services and when a plan was authorized allowing the payments.
"Selma" director Ava DuVernay's new documentary traces societal attitudes and laws from era of Jim Crow to today's "prison industrial complex." "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Wells Fargo's notorious pressure-cooker culture led the bank to force some hourly employees to work late without overtime pay, former workers say. The mandatory overtime took place during "call nights," where workers would call customers to sell them additional products like credit cards in an effort to meet the unrealistic sales goals.
For 90 minutes this week, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashed in their first presidential debate on a full range of issues. But meriting not a single mention? Obamacare.
Attorneys for the state of Louisiana are trying to revive the state's Medicaid funding cut for Planned Parenthood clinics. Earlier this month, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction blocking the cut, which would have kept needy Louisiana women from getting non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities.
At least five Wells Fargo employees have sued the bank or filed complaints with regulators alleging that they were fired after reporting the opening of customer accounts without their permission, according to a Reuters review of lawsuits and complaints to the U.S. Labor Department. The suits and complaints, filed between 2010 and 2014, raise questions about how early Wells Fargo knew about such allegations and how it handled them.