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“I just have to dispel some of these notions,” said Philip Mudd, a former top national security official at the FBI. “We look at a grain of sand and say … 'why couldn't you put together the whole conspiracy when you saw that grain of sand? ...

A New Orleans judge gave preliminary approval today to a settlement agreement that would end a class-action lawsuit against one of the nation's largest publicly owned health care companies. Under the terms of the deal, Tenet Healthcare Corporation and a subsidiary will pay $25 million to patients and visitors trapped at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina.

Last year, ProPublica reporter Sheri Fink won a Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting for her article "The Deadly Choices at Memorial," on euthanasia at a New Orleans hospital in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, published in partnership with The New York ...

U.S. officials say the nation’s health system is ill-prepared to cope with a catastrophic release of radiation, despite years of focus on the possibility of a terrorist “dirty bomb” or an improvised nuclear device attack.

Tenet Healthcare has settled the class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of people trapped in Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The amount was not immediately announced.

The agreement came days after jury selection began and averts a trial that was expected to bring to light new details about Tenet's dealings with Memorial during the hurricane and its aftermath.

Now, the New Yorker's Steve Coll says Pakistan's military believes that Islamic militias could be “useful proxies to ward off a perceived existential threat ...

"Tension between the FDIC and the OTS and the OCC [the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and for that matter the Federal Reserve has been there forever," says Ellen Seidman, a former OTS director. IndyMac exposed the rift between the OTS and ...

Ellen Seidman, former director of the Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision, testified in that capacity before the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services on February 8, 2000 that her office had warned repeatedly of the risks of subprime lending: “Subprime lending, which involves lending to borrowers who have a significantly higher risk of default based on their credit repayment history, has been the subject of intensive OTS scrutiny by our policy and supervisory staff for several years.