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Reporter Who Brought Down the 'Runaway General' Dead at 33

The Terror Con

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa

Greenland's Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It's on Again

REPORTS

Guantanamo Prisoner’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
By Marjorie Cohn

Greenland’s Great Melt Is Pinned on Climate Change
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa
By Nick Turse, TomDispatch

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

Ear to the ground

FBI Confirms Drone Use Over U.S. Soil

What Snowden Told Us This Week

Google Fights for Transparency in FISA Court

U.S. and Taliban Announce Direct Negotiations

Reporter Who Brought Down the ‘Runaway General’ Dead at 33

Nate Silver vs. Politico: It’s on Again

A/V Booth

Rachel Maddow Gives Emotional Tribute to Michael Hastings

GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Did Progress Leave Christians Behind?

Arts & Culture

Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

Digs

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

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Red Cross Fine Highlights Its Troubled History of Blood Services

By Lena Groeger, ProPublica —

A few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.

Posted on Feb 2, 2012 READ MORE | 3 COMMENTS

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Chlamydia Climbing

Here’s a bit of bad news for the sexually active: Chlamydia infections in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2010 with 1.3 million cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s the largest number ever reported for any condition, the agency says. (more)

Posted on Nov 19, 2011 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

Web Waylays Cable Porn Profits

Internet porn causes pay-per-view sales to fall; a new chip will make HIV testing easy, affordable and readily available; meanwhile, mobile phones become more essential than toilets in the developed world. These discoveries and more after the jump.