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CIA Prostitution Scandal Highlights Wider Military Culture

In this April 19, 2012, file photo, people walk past Hotel El Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia. Washington politicians are doing a delicate dance around the Secret Service prostitution scandal. People are loath to criticize agents trained to take a bullet for the president. And illicit sex is not a topic some members of Congress want […]

Trisha Marczak
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FILE - In this April 19, 2012, file photo, people walk past Hotel El Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia. Washington politicians are doing a delicate dance around the Secret Service prostitution scandal. People are loath to criticize agents trained to take a bullet for the president. And illicit sex isn’t a topic some members of Congress want to discuss in an election year. Or any year. So all sides are calling for thorough investigations by the Secret Service. Six agents have been fired after allegations that a dozen of them, and as many military enlistees, paid for sex in Colombia. (AP Photo/Pedro Mendoza, File)

(MintPress)—In the wake of the Secret Service Colombian prostitution scandal, a Brazilian woman is filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Embassy on complaints related to a broken collarbone, allegedly inflicted by three Marines and one embassy supervisor accused of pushing the victim out of a car last year following a dispute over prostitution service

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Medical Debts Collector Violates Ethics, And Possibly The Law

In this photo made available by attorney William Howard, Stanley McLeod is seen in the undated photograph. A jury could soon decide if a north Florida man was harassed to death by debt collectors. Stanley Mc Leod's wife, Dianne of Keystone Heights, Fla., claims that numerous harassing and threatening calls from their mortgage company contributed […]

Lisa Barron
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In this photo made available by attorney William Howard, Stanley McLeod is seen in the undated photograph. A jury could soon decide if a north Florida man was harassed to death by debt collectors. Stanley Mc Leod's wife, Dianne of Keystone Heights, Fla., claims that numerous harassing and threatening calls from their mortgage company contributed to Stanley's death of heart failure in 2005. (AP Photo/William Howard, HO)

(NEW YORK) MintPress -- It couldn’t exactly be considered good bedside manner. Installing debt collectors in emergency rooms is just one of the methods used by Accretive Health in hospitals across the country, according to the Minnesota attorney general, Lori Swanson who released hundreds of documents showing that Accretive, one of the nation’s

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Looking Back: The PLO’s Road To The Negotiating Table

Oum Jihad, the widow of PLO second in command, Khalil al Wazir “Abu Jihad,” cries as she is applauded by PLO Chairman, Yasser Arafat, on the first anniversary of her husband’s assassination at a gathering in Tunis, Tunisia. (Photo Norbert Schiller) (MINNEAPOLIS) – After two decades of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, it is widely […]

Norbert Schiller
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Oum Jihad, the widow of PLO second in command, Khalil al Wazir "Abu Jihad," cries as she is applauded by PLO Chairman, Yasser Arafat, on the first anniversary of her husband's assassination at a gathering in Tunis, Tunisia. (Photo Norbert Schiller)

(MINNEAPOLIS) - After two decades of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, it is widely believed that the two-state solution is all but dead. Israel’s new opposition leader, and former military chief, Shaul Mofaz, who recently won the leadership of the centrist Kadima Party, told Israeli Radio, "The threat of us losing the Jewish

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Protesters Crash Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting

Demonstrators block a side entrance to the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Police were guarding the entrance to the annual meeting of Wells Fargo shareholders on Tuesday as protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement geared up to crash the gathering. Bank stockholders were asked to show certificates […]

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Demonstrators block a side entrance to the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Police were guarding the entrance to the annual meeting of Wells Fargo shareholders on Tuesday as protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement geared up to crash the gathering. Bank stockholders were asked to show certificates or other proof of ownership before being corralled past gates erected in front of the doors. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from across the country descended on San Francisco Tuesday in an attempt to crash banking giant Wells Fargo's annual shareholders meeting. Several dozen people representing community groups had bought company stock and were allowed inside. Police said 24 people were arrested,

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Federal Agency Says Transgender People Protected

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that workplace discrimination laws against bias apply to transgender people. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency that enforces the federal job discrimination laws has for the first time ruled that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace. In a groundbreaking decision late last week, […]

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that workplace discrimination laws against bias apply to transgender people. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency that enforces the federal job discrimination laws has for the first time ruled that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace. In a groundbreaking decision late last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a refusal to hire or otherwise discriminate on the basis of gender identity is

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Few Expect Major Shifts As Fed Ends Policy Meeting

FILE – In a Feb. 2, 2012 file photo Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Budget Committee. — The Federal Reserve will have plenty to say about the economy Wednesday, April 25, 2012 when its two-day policy meeting ends with a statement, updated forecasts and Chairman Ben […]

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FILE - In a Feb. 2, 2012 file photo Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Budget Committee. — The Federal Reserve will have plenty to say about the economy Wednesday, April 25, 2012 when its two-day policy meeting ends with a statement, updated forecasts and Chairman Ben Bernanke's latest news conference. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/file)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve has given the public increasingly more information about its work and its thinking. More doesn't always mean more revealing. Investors aren't expected to learn much from the Fed's latest policy statement Wednesday or from its updated economic forecasts or from Chairman Ben Bernanke's quarterly news

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