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Nigeria to Interpol: Arrest Dick Cheney!

(Dec. 2) -- Julian Assange may be getting some unlikely company. If Nigeria has its way, former Vice President Dick Cheney will be next on Interpol's international "wanted" alert, for bribery charges related to his time as the CEO of Halliburton. Nigeria's anti-corruption agency says it plans to file charges against...

Drones, Deaths and Bribes: Mining the WikiLeaks Data

(July 26) -- Documents posted by WikiLeaks are a trove of raw data about Pakistan and Afghanistan, featuring such events as previously unreported civilian deaths and drones gone missing. A sampling: The CIA, identified as "Other Government Agency," shot and injured a deaf and mute Afghan man. The Taliban may have...

Feds: Blagojevich, Wife Dropped $400K on Clothes

(July 2) -- Rod Blagojevich may have been freaking out about his family's finances and how to pay for his daughter's college tuition, as federal wiretaps played at his corruption trial indicate. But that didn't stop him and his wife from dropping more than $400,000 on tailored suits, furs and other clothes while he was...

Report: Japan Offered Prostitutes to Sway Whaling Votes

(June 14) -- Japanese officials bribed six small nations with offers of cash and call girls in return for their votes in favor of slaughtering whales, according to a newspaper investigation. Japan denies the accusations, but The Sunday Times reported that two of its journalists filmed government officials from six...