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As part of Sunshine Week , March 14-20, The Center for Public Integrity and the Sunlight Foundation are looking for help with The Data Mine , a new online series identifying inaccessible or difficult to use information from the federal government. So far, we’ve spotlighted how the public can examine more than 10 million declassified CIA documents — but only by appearing in person at a National Archives storage building in suburban Washington, D.C.

It’s getting tougher for suspected terrorists to get on a plane, but their Second Amendment “gun rights” continue to trump our concerns for public safety. The government is now making the so-called “No-Fly List” more comprehensive , adding an additional three thousand names to the list in response to the attempted Christmas airplane bombing. It’s great they’re working hard to keep terrorists off planes.

TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hard-line government said Monday it has banned Iran’s largest pro-reform political party in a new strike against an opposition movement that has largely been swept from the streets since last year’s postelection turmoil.

In reading Steven Hill’s brilliant Europe’s Promise , I came across this shocking statistic, “Over a third of all students in college are now using credit cards to pay for escalating tuition costs”. Hill goes on to detail how many of these cards come with initial teaser interest rates followed by variable rates just like the famous subprime mortgages that helped to cause the global fiscal meltdown.

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The murder of Chelsea King in San Diego weighs heavy on my mind. Had the right technology been in place, the right laws, the right notification that a man was attacking women in a nearby park, she may not have died a violent death.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama warned on Monday that women in America still faced unfairness and hardship, as he vowed to fight for gender equality at a White House reception on International Women’’s Day. “I didn”t run for president so that the dreams of our daughters could be deferred or denied,” Obama said

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani is currently presiding over a meeting of Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) to mull over various issues including reduction in urea fertilizer price, Geo News reported Tuesday. According to sources, the ECC is pondering over various proposals regarding the gas supply to the fertilizers factories and reduction in prices of urea

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said with the government’s commitment, important economic targets within a period of two years had been achieved and the economy was back on the path of stability and progress.