An independent United Nations human rights expert has asked Canada to clarify what it is doing to address the “dire†socio-economic conditions of the Attawapiskat aboriginal community, noting that many of its members live in unheated shacks or trailers, with no running water.
This story was co-published with PBS Frontline and McClatchy. WASHINGTON — Rushing into court to undo a major blunder, Justice Department lawyers defending a civil suit Tuesday retracted statements that question the FBI's finding that a former Army microbiologist mailed the anthrax-filled letters that killed five people in 2001.
NEW YORK-It was announced that the number of foreclosures plunged during the first half of 2011. Compared to the same period last year, foreclosure filing fell by 29%. and fell by 25% from numbers at the end of the last half of last year. Normally, that would be encouraging news. Normally, one would stop and […]
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich yesterday released the following statement after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced the 30-day public comment period has started for the revised Exploration Plan submitted by Shell for a multi-year exploration drilling program in the Chukchi Sea, beginning in July 2012.