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The Seattle Times - a prominent U.S. newspaper with nine Pulitzer prizes to its name - is taking action after it was revealed the FBI used its logo to lure in a terror suspect. RT's Marina Portnaya has the story.

Vladimir Putin criticized the West for "sawing at branches" with sanctions against Russia and releasing a "genie in a bottle" with color revolutions. RT looks at the Russian President's best quotes from his speech in Sochi.

It is exactly one month since the US started its bombing campaign on Islamic State in Syria. And it's been quite a profitable operation for the arms industry of course - on the first day 47 Tomahawk missiles worth over 65 million dollars were dropped. One month on and the jihadists are still in place.But the war has produced new contracts for American weapon makers.

Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, has released his 2014 Wastebook chronicling the worst examples of wasted taxpayer money in Washington. Bloomberg’s Yang Yang breaks down the entries on “In The Loop.”

Is fracking safe? The industry claims every precaution is taken to ensure that no harm is done to the environment by the gas extraction process. However, many US citizens who live near newly-built sites are convinced that their water and air has been contaminated, and is now radioactive and poisonous. Fish in the rivers are dying and garden trees are shrivelling and the people themselves are complaining of inexplicable rashes and respiratory illness. They aim to prove that fracking is the cause, but who’s listening?

China is poised to overtake the US as the world's largest economy way ahead of schedule. The IMF predicts that by the end of the year China's GDP, adjusted to the countries relatively low cost of living, will be $17.6 trillion, topping the US essentially that means, even though a typical person in China earns less than their American counterpart, they can afford more with their money.

The fight for freedom of information has never been harder in America, so says the head of the Associated Press's bureau in Washington. She's written an article listing the main obstacles facing those trying to report without bias. Watch as RT's Gayane Chichakyan takes a closer look at the reporters' struggle.

The Pentagon says its bombing campaign in Iraq is costing taxpayers up to 10 million dollars a day. But according to a leading Washington-based think tank, the bill is even higher...much higher. Watch the video to see just how much bombing Iraq may actually cost.

82 percent of California is experiencing extreme drought and farmers in California's Central Valley are looking for water elsewhere- underground. Well drilling for groundwater in the state has doubled and even tripled in some counties. Bloomberg heads to a dairy farm to learn more about the drilling boom.

A look at why you should never believe everything you read in the news, as well as what one of America's biggest bank's financial statements can tell us about the overall US economy.

How Does the Fed Influence the Stock Market? This week, Ivan Lo talks about how the Fed influences the stock market and how central banks, such as Japan, directly influence stock prices.

What is the biggest business in your home state? GM drives Michigan, the Keurig Green Mountain Coffee company brews best in Vermont, and Sands is luckiest in Nevada. Bloomberg's Yang Yang looks at the United Companies of America.

Iraq's capital Baghdad may -- for now -- be safe from the militants that overran the northern city of Mosul last week in a lightning fast advance. But after large-scale defections from an Iraqi Army that the U.S. largely built from scratch, Bloomberg's Willem Marx looks into America's spending on other country's militaries, in today's Big Question. Video by: Brian Kartagener

A look at the pipeline battle between the East and West and how the South Stream Pipeline project could cripple the Western regime.

Vladimir Putin faced a barrage of tricky questions in France from the media ahead of his meeting with world leaders at the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. Here are his best replies on key issues: Ukraine, Crimea, relations with the US, and others. Here is the full interview.

President Barack Obama visited Tuesday with European leaders in Warsaw, Poland. Pledging $1 billion in military aid to eastern European NATO and non-NATO member countries, the White House intends for the funds to increase military cooperation and send a message to Russia. The funds must still be approved by Congress before being distributed. RT's Marina Portnaya goes in-depth with the details of the plan.

It's a major battle between the East and West, with Ukraine and other nations stuck in the middle. Here's what's REALLY happening between Russia, China, and the U.S..

Cyber espionage has become a super-sized stumbling block in the relationship between the U.S. and China. In The Big Question, Bloomberg's Willem Marx examines the value of that relationship and the stakes for American tech firms if China decides to freeze them out.