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Journalist Says Democracies Die When There's No Accountability
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Members of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) who were about to embark on a day of visits March 31 with their members of Congress got an inside look at the ways of Washington from an award-winning journalist and author who has spent four decades reporting on the major events and power players at the highest levels of politics in Washington, D.C.
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Allegations of sexual harassment by a Westmoreland County judge have been filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The complaint against Common Pleas Court Judge Al Bell was filed this week after the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission refused to consider similar allegations.
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WASHINGTON - After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify about the Bush administration's disclosure of a covert CIA officer's identity.
Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria, Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. She will appear today before a grand jury investigating the case.
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A plastic surgery patient whose naked photographs were published with a Riverfront Times article has a second chance to get punitive damages from her former doctors.
On Wednesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a St. Louis-based federal magistrate judge was wrong to exclude RFT reporter Kristen Hinman's testimony, which would have disputed the doctors' argument that the reporter violated an agreement not to publish the pictures.
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Bill Gertz, national security reporter for The Washington Times, will appear in federal court Tuesday in California to answer questions about the need to protect confidential sources in news stories.
In May, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney initially ordered Mr. Gertz to appear in his Santa Ana, Calif., courtroom to reveal the identity of unnamed sources he included in a story about a Chinese spy ring in California.
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Federal lawmakers paved a six-month detour for road builders Thursday, but it's the cliff dive in one year that has builders most concerned.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday reauthorized transportation spending until March for an industry that was facing a halt in federal cash flow come Oct. 1. The bill, which has not yet been signed by President Barack Obama, also extended money at current levels for the Federal Aviation Administration through January.
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A federal judge agreed Monday to limit the testimony of a reporter for The Record to verifying the accuracy of published statements he attributed to Joseph Coniglio, the former state senator on trial for allegedly peddling his influence to Hackensack University Medical Center.
S. District Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh said Jeff Pillets, a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist, can be called by prosecutors as their first witness to authenticate remarks attributed to the lawmaker in a May 2005 article about his role as a paid consultant to New Jersey's busiest hospital.