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We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018. The founder of this website died six years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek

The Navy will be getting a long-needed, state-of-the-art combustion laboratory at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Indian Head Division, thanks to a new federal funding program aimed at upgrading defense laboratories.

We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018. The founder of this website died five years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek

As the state of Indiana faces a shortage of teachers, an Indiana-based company is looking to identify people in hometowns seeking to make the switch to becoming math teachers.

Photo: Peter Stackpole/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images The Associated Press has received an enormous amount of criticism, including from its own staffers, for firing Emily Wilder, 22, after hiring her as a news associate just 17 days before. According to AP, Wilder was let go for “violations of AP’s social media policy.” AP’s action was clearly in response to a right-wing pressure campaign targeting Wilder for her activism in college supporting Palestinian...

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Brian Barger, journalist who helped unravel Iran-contra scandal, dies at 68 Bart Barnes © Family Photo Brian Barger in the mid-1990s. Brian Barger was an investigative journalist who edited and reported on Colombian drug cartels, covert operations of the CIA, international terrorism, money laundering, excessive levels of toxins in sea fish, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was among the primary reporters covering the Iran-contra arms-for-hostage scandals of the Reagan a...

comments In the 1970s, people started using crack, which is cheaper than cocaine and highly addictive. In the 1980s its use exploded across the United States Freeway Ricky Ross built a drug-dealing empire that extended from LA to over 40 cities nationwide during the 1980s, according to a 2013 Esquire profile Federal prosecutors said Ross raked in about $300 million - over $900 million in todays money - in profits from his dealing from 1982 to 1989, per the article Corey Pegues and Samson Styles...