Law that would give FDA warning when life-saving drugs run low has languished in Congress; Dr.
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A Massachusetts physics graduate student and former alt-rock drummer was arrested for planning a terrorist attack on the Pentagon and on the Capitol. But unlike most wannabe terrorists, Rezwan Ferdaus appears to have actually understood how to make bombs. An American graduate student working on a physics MA was arrested yesterday after authorities discovered he was planning to attack the Capitol and Pentagon with explosives-laden drone aircraft.
Read More »GOP’s Paul Ryan Goes Hollywood to Sell Federal Budget
To explain the complexities of his plan, the House budget chairman and his filmmakers found inspiration in a BBC documentary by a Swedish global health professor. For real.
Read More »Video: Erin Brockovich sends out an S.O.S.
According to the EPA, rates of childhood cancer have increased by more than 20 percent from 1975 to 2007. Erin Brockovich testified on Capitol Hill about the growing epidemic of "disease clusters" in the U.S.
Read More »Video: Mickey Rooney: "It can happen to anyone"
Veteran Hollywood star Mickey Rooney testified on Capitol Hill to shine a spotlight on elder abuse. Rooney shared his experience as a victim. Ines Ferre reports.
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