It’s Legal: Some New York Landlords Can Take Tax Breaks Then Raise Rents...
by Marcelo Rochabrun This story was published on May 9, 2017 and updated on July 5, 2017. A state Supreme Court judge quashed the complaints of a New York City tenant this week, ruling that landlords...
View ArticleThe Medicaid Threat That Isn’t Getting Much Attention
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog. No corner of the health care system would be harder hit than Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor,...
View ArticleElection Experts See Flaws in Trump Voter Commission’s Plan to Smoke Out Fraud
by Jessica Huseman Vice President Mike Pence’s office has confirmed the White House commission on voter fraud intends to run the state voter rolls it has requested against federal databases to check...
View ArticleICE Officers Told to Take Action Against All Undocumented Immigrants...
by Marcelo Rochabrun The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit in charge of deportations has directed his officers to take action against all undocumented immigrants they may cross...
View ArticleHave You Left IBM in the Past Few Years? We Want to Hear From You
by Peter Gosselin For much of the past decade, IBM, once America’s premier technology company, has been scrambling to find its place in a world upended by newcomers such as Google, Amazon and...
View ArticleDrugmakers’ Money-Back Guarantees: an Answer to Rising Prices or a ‘Carnival...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica and Katie Thomas, The New York Times, This article was produced in partnership with The New York Times. More than a decade ago, Italy tried a novel approach to help...
View ArticleHelp Us Identify the Officials Helping Trump Roll Back Regulations
by Robert Faturechi, Al Shaw, Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times, In February, President Trump ordered federal agencies to form task forces charged with finding...
View ArticleTrump Has Secretive Teams to Roll Back Regulations, Led by Hires With Deep...
by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times, This story was co-published with The New York Times. President Trump entered office pledging to cut red tape, and within weeks,...
View ArticleTrump’s Russia Lawyer Isn’t Seeking Security Clearance, And May Have Trouble...
by Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger The ongoing investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involve reams of classified material. Yet Marc Kasowitz, the New York...
View ArticleWhat We Know — And Don’t Know — About Hate Crimes in America
by Rachel Glickhouse “Go home. We need Americans here!” white supremacist Jeremy Joseph Christian yelled at two black women — one wearing a hijab — on a train in Portland, Oregon, in May. According to...
View Article‘Extreme’ Use of Painkillers and Doctor Shopping Plague Medicare, New Report...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog. In Washington, D.C., a Medicare beneficiary filled prescriptions for 2,330 pills of oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine in a...
View ArticleTrump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back ,...
by Justin Elliott This story has been updated with a response from a spokesman for Marc Kasowitz. Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney on the Russia case, threatened a stranger in a...
View ArticleWhat Robert Mueller Learned From Enron
by Jesse Eisinger This story was co-published with The New York Times. It seems safe to assume that nobody read Donald Trump Jr.’s damning emails with a Kremlin-connected lawyer more closely than...
View ArticleThe Breakthrough: How an ICIJ Reporter Dug Up the World Bank’s Best Kept Secret
by Jessica Huseman .player_box, div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed { display: none; } ICIJ reporter Sasha Chavkin had been investigating the World Bank for months when he visited a sweltering...
View ArticleHouston Police End Use of Drug Tests That Helped Produce Wrongful Convictions
by Ryan Gabrielson The Houston Police Department has ended its longstanding practice of using $2 chemical kits to make drugs arrests, a policy that had contributed to hundreds of wrongful convictions...
View ArticleWho Is the Russian Lobbyist Who Met With Donald Trump Jr.?
by Isaac Arnsdorf When Donald Trump Jr., his brother-in-law and his father’s campaign chairman sat down with a Russian lawyer last June expecting to receive incriminating information about Hillary...
View ArticleLost Mothers
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, Emma Cillekens and Alessandra Freitas, special to ProPublica ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Lost Mothers An estimated 700 to 900 women in the...
View ArticleCook County Assessor Faces Questions About Property Tax Inequity
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica/Chicago Tribune, This story was co-published with the Chicago Tribune. This story was produced by ProPublica Illinois. Learn more. With questions swirling around his record...
View ArticleThe Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
by Marshall Allen This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog. The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated...
View ArticleWe Found New Details About the New Trump-Branded Hotels. Now We Want Your...
by Derek Kravitz, Al Shaw and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, and Matt Drange, Forbes We’re recruiting local reporters and civically engaged citizens. We have a few ideas on how you can find these...
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