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WBIR-TV
The U.S. Justice Department is set to free 6,000 inmates from federal prison between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2 in an effort to reduce prison crowding and the long punishments given to drug offenders three decades ago.
The move marks the largest one-time release of inmates from federal prison, and follows action by the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2014 to minimize potential punishments for future drug offenders.
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The Washington Post
More than half of the nonprofit health insurance co-ops formed through the Affordable Care Act are now off the market for the coming year, with the last-minute departure of a plan in Michigan.
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Governing
In the ongoing struggle for social justice and equity, policies and programs can both be helpful tools. However, government officials and their constituents need to understand the distinctions between the two and the responsibility of governance for policy to institute real, progressive change.
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Claims Journal
Photographs from Google Street View before and after a major natural disaster could help researchers and civil engineers to assess the damage to buildings and improve resistance against future events, according to new research from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
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Emergency Management
Drones have captured the public's and media's imagination. We're hearing about everything from a Swiss postal service project to deliver packages through the Alps to remote villages and Amazon's envisioned "Prime Air" 30-minute package delivery service to reconnaissance for search and rescue missions and drone-based inspections of electrical transmission lines. But unmanned aerial vehicles are creating their share of problems.
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Food Safety Magazine
After 15 years of providing Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points classes and other type of food safety training in the U.S. and abroad, Dr. Omar A. Oyarzabal realized that there is still confusion on the definition and usage of hazard analysis and risk assessment. Here, Oyarzabal presents a summary of the differences between the terms hazard analysis and risk assessment, and provide a brief description of the origin of the terms to highlight the intended meaning and the fact that the results, or outputs, from performing hazard analysis and risk assessment also differ in nature.
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The Daily Caller
Sensitive information about nuclear plants and materials could be compromised because the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board doesn't protect its documents and hasn't updated its document security rules since before 9/11.
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Tribune-Review
A regional 911 dispatch system designed to provide uninterrupted service should individual counties experience an outage did not live up to that promise for several hours one recent morning.
A telephone server that provides 911 service to 13 Western Pennsylvania counties failed around 6 a.m., resulting in an outage for 911 services in several counties.
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HeraldNet
Before the risks of second-hand cigarette smoke were better understood and led to laws that curtailed smoking in public places, it was common to hear a polite tobacco user ask: "Mind if I smoke?"
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Food Safety News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says there are no risks to humans from exposure to the common insecticide chlorpyrifos from food, but the agency has nonetheless asked for public comment on a proposal to revoke all food residue tolerances for the insecticide, which is mostly used on fruits, vegetable and nut crops. The proposed ban will not affect the 2016 growing season.
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Property Casualty 360
In 2014, U.S. companies had at least a 11.7 percent chance of an employment lawsuit being filed against them.
However, in 11 states plus the District of Columbia, the percentage is much higher. These states have discrimination laws that go beyond federal guidelines, which create additional obligations and risks for insurers, according to New York-based specialist insurer Hiscox.
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Bloomberg
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., which closed 43 restaurants after an E. coli outbreak, has hired food-safety consulting firms and is testing ingredients in an effort to defuse the health scare.
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