GAO reveals $1.6 billion spent on public relations by the Bush administration in 2003-2005

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 A new 154-page Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says seven federal departments together spent US$1.6 billion on 343 contracts with public relations firms, advertising agencies, and media organizations, as well as individuals involved in such activities. Congressional Democrats requested the report after several incidents surfaced in which journalists or commentators were […]

Early morning fire kills four New York group home residents

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Sunday, March 22, 2009 After an early morning fire began, four out of the nine people living at the Riverview Individual Residential Alternative group home located in Wells, New York were killed by the blaze. The Sunmount Developmental Disabilities Services Office, which supervises the home, told the media that the fire started at approximately 5:30 […]

South African apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock granted parole

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Saturday, January 31, 2015 South African Justice Minister Michael Masutha yesterday announced he is granting parole to Eugene de Kock, an apartheid-era assassin who has spent twenty years in prison. After South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 de Kock was arrested and subsequently detailed his actions to the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). […]

New Zealander blind in one eye because of novelty lens

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Monday, January 22, 2007 Novelty coloured contact lenses have left a 24-year-old man living in Auckland, New Zealand with one blind eye. The unnamed man wore the novelty lenses for three days, after which he sought medical advice. At that time his cornea was already damaged. It has been reported that the man, who did […]