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Wilmington - The U.S. Justice Dept. has filed suit in federal court in an effort to block a proposed merger between two giant oil services companies that control as much as 50 to 80 percent of the oil drilling and construction market.

Secretary of State John Kerry announced Wednesday that the United States would double, to about $860 million a year, its grant-based support for vulnerable countries that need to adapt to climate change by 2020.

Houston - Looks like Halliburton owes some of its workers a lot of money. A federal inquiry has found that the oil service giant owes approximately 1,000 of its workers some $18.2 million dollars due to unpaid overtime wages.

Baghdad - Iraq is in the news once again. With the ISIS taking over towns and cities all over Iraq with little resistance, neo cons are calling for more war. History shows those actions are a sampling of how intervention rarely ever works.

A five-year-old video has emerged of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) accusing former vice president Dick Cheney of pushing for an invasion of Iraq because it would benefit Halliburton, where he was previously CEO.

A federal court in the U.S. has rejected BP requests to halt payments over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The oil company said many claims filed were fictitious.

Houston - Oil services giant Halliburton has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of destroying key evidence in the wake of the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent massive oil spill.

Houston - Joseph F. Andolino, the senior vice-president of Halliburton's tax department, was one of seven men arrested in a sting operation carried out by the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

Pecos - Don't pick it up, it may look innocuous, and it doesn't look at all dangerous, but if it looks like a metal cylinder and it's between Pecos Texas and Odessa, just leave it where it is and call 911.

Washington - Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering in hospital following a heart transplant on Saturday. Mr. Cheney, 71, waited 20 months for a donor heart.

Washington - Between 2005 and 2009, 14 leading oil and gas companies used over 2,500 hydraulic fracturing products containing 750 chemicals and components, some extremely toxic and carcinogenic, including lead and benzene, a new Congressional report shows.

Bribery charges were dropped against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton Company by the Nigerian government in a case dating back to the 1990’s.

Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission filed charges against former Vice President of the United States, Richard "Dick" Cheney, and eight others, for complicity in the “bribe for contract” arrangement in connection with a gas project.

Washington - The presidential commission investigating BP’s massive oil spill has announced its first official finding of responsibility: both BP and Halliburton knew weeks before the fatal blowout that the cement mixture to be used in the well was unstable.

Houston - Despite its involvement in the BP oil spill that caused billions of dollars in environmental and wildlife damage, Halliburton's profit soared 83 percent during the second-quarter because of oil and natural gas drilling projects in the United States.

BP is a corporation that has reaped huge profits through a dubious history of committing crimes around the globe with the aid of politically corrupt oversight. The Gulf Coast oil spill was preventable

KBR is involved in another major scandal -- the company has allegedly exposed soldiers to unsafe water, food and toxic fumes at one of its installations in Iraq.

In 2003, Halliburton was awarded a rich $4.2 billion contract from the U.S. government. Dick Cheney said at that time that he has severed his connections with it, but records show he still has their stocks which are currently worth $8 million.

Halliburton's KBR is in the news for allowing workers in Iraq to be exposed to a "mild irritant." The chemical in question is sodium dichromate and it's a little more than an irritant. It's a highly toxic chemical that causes cancer.

Kellogg Brown, & Root (KBR) a former subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company of Halliburton was named in a recent report released by the Pentagon saying that it did not maintain the standards for safe drinking water.

It’s bad enough for Tracy Barker that she was sexually assaulted at work. But now Halliburton convinced a judge to force the case to go through arbitration, where no public record will be written of Barker’s story. Why is blind justice failing workers

Jamie Leigh Jones has come forward to expose the coverup she has experienced following her gang rape in Baghdad. Employed by KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, she claims she was drugged and gang raped. Following the incident, no charges were ever filed.

As if there wasn't enough controversy over the practices of Halliburton, the move to Dubai incites more feelings of disdain from the American public.

Halliburton is moving over seas, and Democrats are a little suspicious as to why the move.

As the debate in Washington with regards to increasing the troop levels In Iraq heats up, an estimated 100 thousand mercenaries find themselves missing from the equation.