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Peabody Energy says it plans to file a reorganization plan in the middle of December because recent increases in the price of coal have eased conflicts among its creditors.
2016-11-23

The Obama administration through the United States Department of Labor sues Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies for alleged discrimination against Asians in its hiring practices.
2016-09-27

Following this ruling, and to head off an immediate confrontation, the Obama administration temporarily suspends further construction of the pipeline on U.S. Army Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe, and asks the Dakota Access construction company to voluntarily pause all work within 20 miles of the lake.
2016-09-9

The Obama Administration through Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces that all combat roles in the U.S. military will be opened to women.
2015-12-3

The Obama Administration weighs the option of using military force to protect the U.S.-backed rebels fighting the Assad regime.
2015-10-3

The Obama administration, through the United States Environmental Protection Agency announces new regulations on emissions of the greenhouse gas methane.
2015-08-18

A United States EPA employee who committed fraud regarding his vacation pay is sentenced to 32 months in prison. John C. Beale had perpetrated a scam whereby he disappeared from work for years at a time saying he was a covert CIA agent.
2013-12-18

Attorney General Eric Holder, acting for the Obama Administration, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee that he was not party to the U.S. Justice Department's secret seizure of telephone records of the news agency the Associated Press. The Justice Department seized two months worth of telephone records from AP offices and reporters.
2013-05-13

"New Yorker Magazine" reports that the Obama administration has entered exploratory talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
2011-02-20

Australian climate change activists close down the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, New South Wales.
2010-09-26