Nearly every state in the nation operates publicly funded drug and alcohol rehab programs that protect dangerous physicians who are allowed to practice while supposedly undergoing treatments that are rarely supervised by state licensing boards. Thousands of doctors across the country have participated in the confidential programs that specifically aim to conceal potentially damaging information

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U.S. Border Patrol agents near Mexico are using pepper spray and tear gas, rather than lethal force, to fend off a surge in attacks by violent human smugglers and Mexican officials have accused the federal officers of using the chemicals to ruthlessly assault their nationals. Border Patrol agents began using the pepper spray and tear

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A new U.S.-led task force has uncovered yet more corruption at the scandal-plagued United Nations where this week nearly a dozen officials from the world body’s renowned peacekeeping operations were exposed for soliciting bribes and rigging bids. Led by former federal prosecutor Robert Appleton, the procurement task force revealed a pervasive pattern of corruption and

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Taxpayer-funded employment and social services centers for illegal immigrants are popping up throughout south Florida and advocates of immigration enforcement are taking note and protesting. In Miami-Dade county $200,000 of taxpayer money was recently used to fund such a facility in Cutler Bay and further north in Jupiter, nearly 2 million taxpayer dollars were spent

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With another presidential election approaching, the high-tech electronic voting machines that many states bought after the 2000 dimpled ballot/hanging chad fiasco continue having serious problems and yet another state election official wants all machines replaced because they are vulnerable to manipulation. About $3 billion were spent nationally to purchase the touch-screen machines to replace the

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The wealthy businessman who served as gambling adviser to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is himself a big-time gambler who has been federally charged with tax fraud for improperly using company funds to pay off huge gambling debts over the years. Roofing contractor Christopher Kelly was actually one of Blagojevich’s closest advisers and the governor’s onetime

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An international political scandal involving the socialist regimes of two Latin American countries and a confiscated suitcase stuffed with nearly $1 million has roots in south Florida where four men have been indicted for acting as agents of a foreign government. The four wealthy South Americans have been arrested and federally charged for illegally acting

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Animated civil rights activist Al Sharpton is accusing the federal government of investigating his suspicious financial dealings as retaliation for organizing one of his trademark protests recently on behalf of six black Louisiana students charged with assault. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are investigating Sharpton for tax fraud and

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Weeks after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against a suburban Virginia county for cracking down on illegal immigration the state’s civil rights commission is scrutinizing the measures while the federal government rejects a portion of the plan that allows all law enforcement agencies within the county to screen illegal aliens. Officials in Prince William

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For the second time this year President George W. Bush has pardoned a variety of criminals while ignoring pleas from lawmakers and the public to free two jailed U.S. Border Patrol agents who intercepted an illegal immigrant drug smuggler at the Texas-Mexico border. This week the president pardoned 29 convicts, including carjackers, drug dealers and

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