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Obama Administration Spent Billions on Image Advertising Posted: 09 Oct 2015 10:10 AM PDT The recent disclosure that the Department of Health and Human Services contracted with a public relations firm to try to enhance "messaging" with reporters has renewed a long-standing controversy over the propriety of spending taxpayer dollars to enhance the government's public image. A Congressional Research Service study last year discovered that at the very minimum, the Obama administration had spent a total of $4.4 billion on outside advertising contracts between fiscal 2009 and 2013, including $892.5 million in the final year. The biggest spenders in 2013 included the Department of Defense ($419 million), HHS ($197.4 million), the Department of Education ($128.8 million) and the Department of Veterans Affairs ($61.8 million).

Baylor University rescinds honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby Posted: 09 Oct 2015 07:56 AM PDT By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Baylor University, the world's largest Baptist university, has decided to rescind the honorary degree it awarded to comedian Bill Cosby in 2003, saying on Friday "acts of interpersonal and sexual violence" run counter to the school's values. Baylor is one of several universities to cut ties with Cosby in the past year after more than 50 women have come forward with allegations against him, including drugging, sexual assault and rape. Cosby has denied the allegations.

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