WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday passed a $630.6 billion defense appropriations bill that fully funds military operations in Alaska and America’s ongoing overseas contingency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to Senator Lisa Murkowski – a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the Appropriations Committee. The bill also includes a […]
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates at least 1 million metric tonnes of rare earth element resources within the Khanneshin carbonatite in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
One of the nation's largest health-care staffing companies has agreed to pay $150 million to settle sweeping criminal and civil fraud allegations of submitting false bills to federal and state health programs.
NEW YORK-The United Nations has announced the names of the 11 staff members who perished when the world body’s offices in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, were attacked by a suicide bomber on 26 August.