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The federal government must double down on grants to low-income students and dramatically simplify the system of student loans, says a new report by the non-partisan New America Foundation.

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For instance, the New America Foundation estimates between 261 and 305 civilians have been killed in Pakistan; The Bureau of Investigative Journalism gives a range of 475 - 891. All of the counts are much higher than the very low numbers of deaths the ...

Peter Bergen of the New American Foundation has done estimates on who among those killed could be considered “militant leaders” — either of the Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan Taliban, or Al Qaeda. Under the Bush administration, about 30 percent of those killed could be considered militant...

“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 ...