World & Nation
Six executives of a chemical company that spilled a coal-cleaning agent into a major West Virginia river in January, leaving 300,000 people without safe drinking water, were charged by federal authorities Wednesday with violating the Clean Water Act.
Dec. 17, 2014
Opinion
Before it had a hashtag, the #MeToo movement had already hit science.
April 1, 2019
If the public pays your salary, citizens have the right — within limits — to see what you’re doing.
Aug. 21, 2015
Politics
A political furor erupted Wednesday over the State Department’s action in launching an unusually intensive search for records from Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s past at a time when President Bush was accusing him of unpatriotic acts in his student days.
Oct. 15, 1992
For the second time in less than a week, acting Secretary of State Lawrence S.
Oct. 24, 1992
EPA administrator’s email account raises concern
Nov. 20, 2012
Overreaching by the executive branch is tipping the balance away from protecting Americans’ precious freedoms.
Sept. 9, 2002
Fourteen nuclear power plants each reported more than 50 mishaps to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1986, a study by the nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen said.
April 26, 1987
Books
Freedom Song--A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Mary King (Morrow); Free at Last--What Really Happened When Civil Rights Came to Southern Politics, Margaret Edds (Adler & Adler).
Aug. 9, 1987
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks and a thorn in the side of intelligence agencies, faces 17 additional U.S. criminal charges under the Espionage Act, according to an indictment released Thursday, a step that 1st Amendment advocates warned could set a precedent for far-reaching restrictions on press freedoms.
May 23, 2019