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Is Your Cell Phone's Radiation Level Safe? Don't Call the FCC

More than 200 million people in the U.S. talk on cell phones a total of at least 12 hours a month -- some double or triple that amount. Almost everyone admits that cell phones emit radiation when they link to the closest tower. What almost no one can agree on is whether that radiation is harmful to those holding their...

Opinion: Government Waste by the Numbers

In an organization as big and sprawling as the federal government, it's sometimes hard to grasp the magnitude of the waste that goes on. But the Government Accountability Office has released a report that gets at this problem in a unique way. It looks at government programs with an eye to rooting out duplication and...

DHS, Interior Among 5 of the Worst-Run Federal Programs

WASHINGTON -- The Government Accountability Office released its biennial list of the poorest performing government agencies today -- and this year, the Interior Department's management of the nation's oil and gas resources made the list for the first time. This should come as no surprise, given the breathtaking scope of...

Expert: Scanner Training More Intense Outside of US

The full-body scanners have either been deployed, or are being seriously considered for use, in Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Nigeria, India, South Africa and most of the European Union. In those countries, the personnel are extensively trained and understand radiation, how the X-ray devices...

Probe: US Arms Sales to Persian Gulf Lack Oversight

(Sept. 29) -- The U.S. State and Defense departments have authorized billions of dollars in arms sales to countries in the Persian Gulf without documenting how transferring Patriot missile defense systems, F-16 fighter jets and the like advances the national interest, a government investigation found. The Government...