Sunday, Jul 19th
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House Democrats demanded documents Thursday about a multibillion-dollar overseas contracting loophole to track down how _ and why _ the Bush administration slipped it into plans to protect taxpayer money.
The controversial loophole has irked Democrats and Republicans alike. But it has the support of a trade association that lobbies on behalf of giant global government contractors, including Blackwater USA, KBR Inc., Boeing Co., CACI International Inc. and Lockheed Martin.
 Detroit’s Democratic lawmaker Rashida Tlaib has called for the resignation of Neil Barofsky, the federal monitor... |
 A US federal judge this week ruled in favour of a prominent Palestinian-American academic and activist... | ||
 Arturo Gonzalez was in a car scouting for immigration agents in a Home Depot parking lot... |
 More than a thousand people rallied for Justin Pearson, a Democratic state representative running for Congress,... |
