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The US government for the first time has granted a Native American tribe in Wyoming permission to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony, opening the door for future negotiations for native tribes to claim more of the nationally honored birds for their long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe said. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) granted the Northern Arapaho Tribe a permit on March 9 allowing it to either kill or capture and release two bald eagles this year. The permit...

Running over people in a car can be a very traumatic experience, especially if the victim is a beloved child or elderly parent. Government regulators report that as many as 112 deaths and 8,374 injuries could be avoided by eliminating the large blind spot at the rear of the car. Two-hundred twenty-eight people die every year in back-over accidents, 44 percent of whom are under the age of 5, whereas 17,000 people are injured in such accidents according to government statistics. To help...

Wikileaks, the whistelblowing website responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of top secret government cables and documents over the past few years, is now publishing more than 5 million confidential emails from a US-based intelligence agency known as the “Shadow CIA.” The messages, from intelligence firm Stratfor, date from between July 2004 and December 2011, and reveal Stratfor’s  “web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological...

2 Georgetown professors explore a process needed to avoid the current dilemma faced by 2 scientific journals recently asked by the US government to redact parts of scientific publications deemed to be a biosecurity threat The U.S. government's request that the journals Science and Nature withhold scientific information related to the genetically modified H5N1 virus because of biosecurity concerns does not violate the First Amendment, say two Georgetown University professors. They caution,...

PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Soligenix, Inc. (OTCBB: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a development stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today results from long-term stability studies of its proprietary DNI (dominant negative inhibitor) anthrax rPA (recombinant protective antigen) subunit protein vaccine, known as SGX204. SGX204 is a hyperimmunogenic derivative of PA and is being developed as a vaccine to protect against anthrax disease either as a...

Nuix is proud to announce that the Criminal Investigations division of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as well as divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have all implemented Nuix software in order to improve their electronic investigation and eDiscovery procedures. Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 17, 2012 Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, including eDiscovery, electronic investigation and...

Offering government users advanced laboratory computer software FREDERICK, MD, DECEMBER (PRWEB) December 21, 2011 RURO, Inc., an award winning developer of innovative scientific applications that facilitate asset management and increase productivity of various laboratories, today announced a new government services partnership agreement with Technical Communities, Inc., -one of the fastest growing suppliers of technical solutions to the US government. FreezerPro® - allows...

NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A majority of people surveyed believe the Obama White House is lying when it says the government has no evidence that extraterrestrial beings exist. According to those surveyed, 99% believe that UFO's of extraterrestrial origin have visited earth now or sometime in the past! And about 98% believe that the US government "knows more than it is saying" about UFO's and extraterrestrials, thus disputing the White House recent announcement...

  The US government claims that Full Tilt, an online gambling site based in Dublin, Ireland, is a ponzi scheme. The government claims the sites board of directors used player’s funds to enrich themselves to the tune of $440 million dollars between April 2007 and April 2011. Raymond Bitar and 11 other defendants were named in an indictment seeking $3 billion dollars in penalties and alleging crimes including illegal gambling, money laundering and bank fraud, according to the...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US government's $14.5 TRILLION debt crisis is all over the news. What does it mean and how did we get there? The answers will shock you. This easy-to-understand, 13-page, $0.99 eBooklet on Kindle and Nook explains in everyday language where the government gets its income, how it is spent, and why the national debt is completely out of control: The US government has spent more than it has earned for 36 of the past 40...