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Hacking the American College Application Process
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Illinois Sues Controversial Drug Maker Over Deceptive Marketing Practices
by Jessica Huseman Illinois’ attorney general has filed suit against Insys Therapeutics, accusing the controversial pharmaceutical company of using deceptive marketing practices — including paying an...
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California and EPA Poised to Expand Pollution of Potential Drinking Water...
by Abrahm Lustgarten As the western United States struggles with chronic water shortages and a changing climate, scientists are warning that if vast underground stores of fresh water that California...
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Using Prisoner Phone Calls to Convict? NY’s Highest Court Puts Critical...
by Joe Sexton Two years ago, a New York City man named Marcellus Johnson was convicted of robbery — in part as a result of incriminating telephone conversations that had been recorded while he was...
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Discrimination by Design
by Lena Groeger This story was co-published with Source. Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger A few weeks ago, Snapchat released a new photo filter. It appeared alongside many...
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Apple and Others Help Customers Donate to the Red Cross, And Only the Red Cross
by Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, This month’s epic flooding in Louisiana, which destroyed roughly 60,000 homes, is the worst natural disaster in the United States since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. And just...
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SRSLY: Making Stuff Up, A Winning Legal Strategy
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We’ll distill the...
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Tracking Police Shootings in Texas and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend. Texas saw at least 881...
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Inside an International Court of Money and Mystery
by Joaquin Sapien .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} A Dubai real estate mogul had a prison sentence disappear. Manufacturing executives in El...
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The Surreal Politics of a Billionaire’s Tax Loophole
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. For years, Democratic elected officials in Washington have been wary of going after Wall Street excesses too hard, lest the...
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Election DataBot Sources
Information displayed by ProPublica’s Election DataBot comes from multiple sources, including government and commercial websites: Campaign Finance Information about campaign filings comes from the...
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Seeing the Real Campaign With ProPublica’s Election DataBot
by Derek Willis Today ProPublica is launching a new tool, created in partnership with the Google News Lab, that makes it easier for journalists, researchers and citizens to quickly find newsworthy...
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Election DataBot
by Ken Schwencke, Derek Willis and Lena Groeger, ProPublica, This new tool, updated every 15 minutes, collects huge amounts of election data and reports the most interesting details, in real time,...
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Monitoring the Vote With Electionland
by Scott Klein There is no more essential act in a democracy than voting. But making sure that the balloting is open to all and efficiently administered has been, at best, a low priority for many...
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SRSLY: Homes for the Old Need to Learn New Tricks
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We’ll distill the...
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America is Ignoring an Epidemic of ‘Superbugs’: MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend. The Centers for Disease Control and...
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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Charity Claims
by Robert Faturechi .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Donald Trump says he has donated millions to charity. Earlier this year, Washington Post...
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DNA Dragnet: In Some Cities, Police Go From Stop-and-Frisk to Stop-and-Spit
by Lauren Kirchner The five teenage boys were sitting in a parked car in a gated community in Melbourne, Florida, when a police officer pulled up behind them. Officer Justin Valutsky closed one of the...
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Call in Congress for Family Court Reform
by Joaquin Sapien On a Saturday evening in late March 2008, a 41-year-old Maryland man named Mark Castillo drowned his three children in the bathtub of a Baltimore hotel room. Castillo and his wife of...
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Oklahoma’s Top Court: Companies Can’t Set Own Rules for Injured Workers
by Michael Grabell This story was co-published with NPR. A national campaign to rewrite state laws and allow businesses to decide how to care for their injured workers suffered a significant setback...
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