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KBR sued over headscarf ban KBR, the Houston-based war contractor, is already facing numerous legal troubles -- over toxic burn pits, the electrocution deaths of U.S. soldiers due to faulty wiring, exposing troops to a cancer-causing chemical, involvement in human trafficking, and rapes of women employees in Iraq. Now it's facing fresh woes for firing a Muslim employee for wearing a headscarf. A lawsuit was filed against KBR in federal court this month by Karen Tounkara, a contract nurse hired to prepare company workers heading to Iraq.
FBI Processes 600 Billion Fingerprints Per Day WBNS News CrimeTracker 10 reports about an advanced federal research facility that processes 600 billion fingerprints a day underground. The FBI’s multi-billion dollar, two football-field-sized Criminal Justice Information Services building stores roughly 60 million sets of fingerprints and helps law enforcement...
Dow Closes Above 9,000 for First Time Since January Markets on Wall Street and in Europe moved higher on Thursday, with the Dow pushing past 9,000 for the first time since early January. Thursday’s push was fueled by some better-than-expected earnings reports, including one from the Ford Motor Company, and the latest government report on housing, which said that the sale of existing home rose 3.6 percent in June, the third consecutive monthly increase.
Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools --State's education board to consider adding Christianity's role in American history to curriculum The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God. Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want lessons to emphasise the part played by Christianity in the founding of the US and that religion is a civic virtue.
FBI Processes 600 Billion Fingerprints Per Day WBNS News CrimeTracker 10 reports about an advanced federal research facility that processes 600 billion fingerprints a day underground. The FBI’s multi-billion dollar, two football-field-sized Criminal Justice Information Services building stores roughly 60 million sets of fingerprints and helps law enforcement...
Dow Closes Above 9,000 for First Time Since January Markets on Wall Street and in Europe moved higher on Thursday, with the Dow pushing past 9,000 for the first time since early January. Thursday’s push was fueled by some better-than-expected earnings reports, including one from the Ford Motor Company, and the latest government report on housing, which said that the sale of existing home rose 3.6 percent in June, the third consecutive monthly increase.
Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools --State's education board to consider adding Christianity's role in American history to curriculum The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God. Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want lessons to emphasise the part played by Christianity in the founding of the US and that religion is a civic virtue.
New Jersey mayors and rabbis arrested in corruption investigation Two New Jersey mayors and dozens of political and religious figures were arrested and charged in a massive bribery and money laundering scheme that included traffic in human body parts. As part of an 10-year investigation into pervasive public corruption in New Jersey, hundreds of FBI agents fanned out across the state this morning to make arrests and search offices. Later, law enforcement vehicles crowded in front of agency offices as agents waited to unload their quarry.
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