Despite criticism from members of Congress, foreign companies continue to received hundreds of millions of dollars from the stimulus package intended to create green energy jobs in America.

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With the help of some new-found friends and a $600 million lobbying effort, the nuclear energy industry is on the brink of getting federal financial support to build reactors to generate elecricity. Already, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is swamped by a tsunami of applications, even though old issues such as safety and waste disposal still haven't been solved.

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The headlines in the banking industry in recent weeks have focused on the recovery that has permitted the nation’s biggest banks to repay the federal financial assistance they received late last year and early this year through the Troubled Asset Relief Program. But the latest reports show that bad loans still are a major problem for banks. Our search tool permits you to check the financial health of any bank in the nation.  You can search credit union reports , as well.  This project was done in cooperation with msnbc.com.   See the full reports.

The government’s $45 billion plan to jump-start a national shift to electronic medical records has touched off a gold rush among scores of technology firms – even as many experts question whether the benefits of the products are being oversold. Read our stories here .

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Nancy Ann DeParle, who heads the White House Office on Health Reform, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

DeParle, who ran the Medicare program in the last years of the Clinton administration made more than $6.6 million in directors' fees and stock transactions between 2001 and March of this year, Securities and Exchange Commission filings revealed.

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Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing type of cancer in the nation, and medical researchers don't know why. The increase comes as the rates for most cancers have been declining. Caroline Stetler, an American University journalism graduate student, reports on this mystery .