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More than 40% of recalls by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, including all the toys recalled this year and 79% of toys last year, involved products from China. The volume of consumer goods from China has nearly tripled since 1997, but the agency's budget has increased just 12...
Doing that, of course, would require improving China's food and product safety at the source. "We'd rather have the products manufactured safely in the first place," says acting Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Nancy Nord. Despite our buying power, the U.S. government simply has very little leverage to...
It's that time again, the end of another quarter, and another moment of reckoning, as the presidential contenders prepare to report how much money they have raised and spent. Officially, the paperwork doesn't have to be filed with the Federal Election Commission until July 15 (the end of...
One big mystery is how well former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is doing. The "Law and Order" star is doing well in the polls, but because he is officially only "testing the waters," and has not formally entered the race, he will not have to file a report with the...
Seven European governments will open a drug intelligence and operations center in Lisbon later this year. These countries - Spain, Ireland, Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy and France - will coordinate with U.S. intelligence officers, and plan to begin surveillance flights over the Atlantic in July. They will also coordinate military and...