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...government oversees leases of land for mining, oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing and other uses.) The Federal Government also agreed to create a $60 million higher-education scholarship fund for Native American students. President Obama called the proposed settlement in Cobell v. Salazar--one of the largest and most complex class actions ever brought against the government--an "important step toward a sincere reconciliation" between the U.S. and Native Americans. The pact must be approved by a federal court and authorized by Congress...
...election was settled almost six months ago, demonstrations against its controversial outcome continue. On Dec. 7, Iran's National Student Day, thousands of university students, who dominate the antigovernment movement, flooded Tehran to rally against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two days of marches--the largest in months--resulted in more than 200 arrests and a threat from Iranian prosecutors to take stronger action against protesters...
...reference to Hurricane Katrina as "the largest natural disaster in our nation's history": Experts agree that the destruction following the hurricane was caused by the collapse of the federally built and controlled levee system, which failed when confronted with the precise circumstance it was supposed to protect against. The devastation in the wake of Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was a man-made...
...Scientists have been raising the alarm about dioxins since the 1960s. After TCDD, the dioxin in Agent Orange, was found to cause cancer and birth defects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) slapped an emergency ban on the herbicide in 1979. Dow and Monsanto, the chemical's largest manufacturers, eventually shelled out millions in damages to U.S. troops who were exposed to it while it was being used as a wartime defoliant from 1961 to 1971. The U.S. government still spends billions every year on disability payments to those who served in Vietnam - including their children, many of whom...
...just a bit player and notes the $230 million has yet to be returned to the Russian treasury. To get to the bottom of who was responsible for Magnitsky's death, "one needs to find out who got the stolen $230 million," says Browder, whose fund was once the largest foreign investor in Russia and who has been barred entry to the country since Russia deemed him a threat to national security in 2005. (See pictures of Vladimir Putin...