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Apple CEO Tim Cook makes no apology for company's tax strategy
Mumbai :: India | 28 days ago
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Tim Cook made no apology for the iPad maker saving billions of dollars in US taxes through Irish subsidiaries and told lawmakers that his company backs corporate tax reform. Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook made no apology on Tuesday for the iPad
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Insurance industry out in force to press lawmakers on disaster aid bill
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 1 month ago
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The coalition plans to blanket Washington with op-eds and print ads this week in favor of the legislation. Lobbyists with the group hope the memory of Hurricane Sandy which inflicted costly damage on the East Coast will galvanize lawmakers to action
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Cybersecurity debate moves to Senate
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 month ago
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Similar to last year, the House easily passed a set of cybersecurity-focused bills this week, prompting the Senate to make a move and put forward its own proposal. But the Senate isn't as far along on legislation as it was last Congress and has opted
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Congressional Investigation Slams DHS Anti-Terror Centers: Wasted Taxpayer Funds, Created No Useful Intelligence & Violated Civil Liberties
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
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As such, it should hardly come as a surprise that programs are wasteful, possibly fraudulent, bad for civil liberties and (oh yeah) completely useless (to actively harmful) in fighting terrorism. A Congressional investigation into the Department of
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Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 9 months ago
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A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about innocent Americans and produced little valuable intelligence on terrorism, a Senate report concludes. It portrays an effort
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Senate panel OKs rules for stages like one that failed at state fair
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Links Legislation that would regulate outdoor stage equipment like that used in the Aug. 13 stage-rigging collapse at the Indiana State Fair today passed the Senate Homeland Security, Transportation and Veterans Affairs Committee. It now will go to
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Hearing to address mismanagement at Arlington Cemetery
Arlington :: TX :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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30 a.m. was spurred by Army Secretary John McHugh's reports in June that revealed 211 graves were misidentified or mislocated in the historic cemetery A months-long investigation found "a lack of expertise in contracting processes within the cemetery,
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Senate panel takes up Arlington woes
Arlington :: TX :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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The Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on Contract Oversight will address the findings of a months-long Army investigation, which revealed a dysfunctional management system, flawed recordkeeping and more than 200 mismarked graves at the military
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The Week Ahead: BP CEO on the Hill
Pensacola :: FL :: USA | 3 years ago
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Meanwhile, congressional lawmakers on both sides of Capitol Hill continue to hold hearings galore into the BP spill something House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) last week mocked as Congress at its best, as millions of barrels of oil continue
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Western Union to pay $94 million to settle dispute
Bata :: Equatorial Guinea | over 3 years ago
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Dirty money' still entering US Foreign leaders and their families are still able to channel hundreds of millions of dollars in potentially corrupt money into the United States despite post-Sept. 11 laws cracking down on money laundering, according to
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