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New Jersey Will No Longer Collect Loans From Families of Dead Students
by Annie Waldman New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday signed into law a bill requiring the state’s student loan agency to forgive the loans of borrowers who die or become permanently disabled....
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De Blasio Says ‘Enough is Enough’: Landlords Getting Big Tax Break Must Cap...
by Cezary Podkul In his sharpest critique yet of scofflaw landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday it’s “outrageous” that thousands of New York City property owners accepted tax benefits from...
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Boomtown, Flood Town
by Neena Satija for The Texas Tribune and Reveal; Kiah Collier for The Texas Tribune; and Al Shaw for ProPublica Climate change will bring more frequent and fierce rainstorms to cities like Houston....
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Could Programs to Help Undocumented Immigrants Gain Driver’s Licenses Backfire?
by Patrick G. Lee This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Since 2015, California has issued about 800,000 licenses to drivers who lack proof of legal residence. In Illinois, more than 212,000...
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Suspected of Corruption at Home, Powerful Foreigners Find Refuge in the U.S.
by Kyra Gurney, Anjali Tsui, David Iaconangelo, Selina Cheng, This report is a collaboration between ProPublica and the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. A version of...
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Pro-Trump Group Blew by Basic Campaign Finance Laws
by Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis A group that gave more money to one of President-elect Trump’s fundraising efforts than any other political action committee failed to disclose its donors before...
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Will Trump Scrap NASA’s Climate Research Mission?
by Andrew Revkin The wonders of NASA — Mars rovers, astronaut Instagram feeds, audacious missions probing distant galactic mysteries — have long enthralled the American public. And, it turns out, the...
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Family’s Shipping Company Could Pose Problems for Trump’s Transportation Pick
by Josie Albertson-Grove and Masako Melissa Hirsch for ProPublica, Albertson-Grove and Hirsch are with the Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting at Columbia University. President-elect Donald...
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What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism
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Emoluments Clause: Could Overturning 185 Years of Precedent Let Trump Off the...
by Richard Tofel ProPublica recently took a look at the Emoluments Clause, the provision of the Constitution which seems to ban payments from foreign countries to Donald Trump’s businesses once he...
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We’ve Updated Dollars for Docs. Here’s What’s New.
by Ryann Grochowski Jones , Mike Tigas and Charles Ornstein Today we’ve updated our Dollars for Docs interactive database, adding an additional year of data and some new features that make it easier...
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Updated Dollars for Docs
by Charles Ornstein , Lena Groeger , Mike Tigas and Ryann Grochowski Jones We’ve updated Dollars for Docs. It now includes payments made from August 2013 through December 2015 — some $6.25 billion in...
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‘As a White Nationalist, What Do You Do?’
by A.C. Thompson Chip Berlet has spent the past four decades studying right-wing political movements as a writer, activist and scholar. Now retired, he worked for many years as a senior analyst at...
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The Chosen: Who Trump Is Putting in Power
by Jessica Huseman and Rob Weychert ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate The Chosen: Who Trump Is Putting in Power by Jessica Huseman and Rob Weychert December 14, 2016 As...
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EPA Concludes Fracking a Threat to U.S. Water Supplies
by Patrick G. Lee Starting in 2008, ProPublica published stories that found hydraulic fracking had damaged drinking water supplies across the country. The reporting examined how fracking in some cases...
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The Fateful Vote That Made New York City Rents So High
by Marcelo Rochabrun and Cezary Podkul At the end of a pedestrian tunnel, down a flight of stairs from street level, a plush bar with a Prohibition motif caters to wealthy newcomers who have...
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Trump’s Pick for Labor Secretary Wrote a Deregulatory Manifesto
by Justin Elliott Since President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he has picked fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder to be labor secretary, there’s been lots of speculation that the administration could...
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Tracking Evictions and Rent Stabilization in NYC
by Sisi Wei , Ken Schwencke , Lena Groeger and Cezary Podkul Since 1994, the City Council and state legislature have gradually dismantled legal protections for New York City tenants, giving landlords...
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How We Obtained the Government’s Data on Agent Orange and Birth Defects
by Stephen Engelberg ProPublica Reliving Agent Orange Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate How We Obtained the Government’s Data on Agent Orange and Birth Defects The Veterans...
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A Public Official’s Private Pain
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica Reliving Agent Orange Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate A Public Official’s Private Pain A Washington legislator had two children after her husband...
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