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Legit News: Longtime head of theater department let go -- Peter Franklin, the longtime head of WMA's theater department, was among the 100-plus WMA staffers to get a pink slip earlier this week.

Rangers from Queensland's Environment Department have captured a 2.6 metre crocodile at Port Douglas in the state's far north.

University of Pennsylvania law professor William Burke-White has been appointed to a position in the State Department's Office of Foreign Policy Planning, the university said.

Abusive interrogation techniques were used on Abu Zubaydah in the months between his capture and the first Justice Department memo authorizing harsh interrogations. A new document shows that the White House may have authorized those techniques.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Treasury Department is set to inject billions more dollars into GMAC Financial Services, according to media reports....

The rhetoric over harsh interrogation tactics — and clamor for disclosure and inquiry — are intensifying. President Obama is being urged to step in and name an independent panel to examine what went wrong in the Bush Justice Department.

The Obama administration today is announcing it would expand Justice Department health-care strike forces to Detroit and Houston, part of a broader commitment to root out fraud in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

The Department of Primary Industries says it has yet to see any evidence of major fish kills caused by flooding on the north coast.

Oxford University defends three-year research into the animals' behaviour but is dismissed by farmersThe assumption has always been that rainy weather is good for ducks. Now a three-year study funded to the tune of £300,000 by the taxpayer has proved it.Two scientists from the University of Oxford gave a lucky group of farm ducks access to a pond, a water trough and a shower. They discovered that the ducks spent an awful lot of time under the shower, sometimes just standing there, others drinking from it.Perhaps inevitably, the revelation that ducks seem to enjoy water washing over them has not impressed everyone. Susie Squire of the Taxpayers' Alliance, called the research a 'bonkers waste of money'.She said: 'It is common sense that ducks like rain and water. The last thing the government should be allocating scarce resources to is this sort of nonsense.'The Devon chairman of the National Farmers Union, Anthony Rew, said the study proved that Defra, the government department that ove

WASHINGTON — The Defense and Homeland security departments are finalizing plans to station National Guard troops along the border with Mexico, most likely as backup support to local law enforcem...