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Ask Peter Sleeth Anything about Missing Iraq, Afghanistan Field Records...
by Amanda ZamoraOver the last decade, the U.S. military has destroyed or failed to keep millions of field records from Iraq and Afghanistan. The lapse in recordkeeping has left soldiers struggling...
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What We Learned from Free the Files—and How to Make It Better
by Theodoric Meyer Back in August, the Federal Communications Commission forced the country's television stations to put their political advertising files — which reporters had been able to see only...
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Was Petraeus Borked?
by Peter MaassThis story was co-published with The New Yorker and is not subject to our Creative Commons license. In 1987, when Judge Robert Bork was enmeshed in a partisan struggle over his Supreme...
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Education Department Adopts Crucial Reform for Disabled Borrowers
by Sasha ChavkinThis story was co-published with The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Education Department enacted a crucial reform on behalf of borrowers who become disabled, issuing new rules...
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Pipelines Explained: How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines?
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Pipeline Safety Tracker
by Lena GroegerEvery year the nation’s oil and natural gas pipelines suffer hundreds of ruptures and spills. We map major pipeline accidents from 1986 to the present.
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What Effect, If Any, Did Voter ID Laws Have on the Election?
by Suevon LeeElaine Schmottlach has been a ballot clerk in the small southeastern New Hampshire town of Nottingham – population, 4,785 – for the last 25 years. Yet when it came time for her to vote on...
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TSA X-Ray Body Scanners Sit Idle in Warehouse
by Michael Grabell Last month, the Transportation Security Administration said it was moving nearly half its X-ray body scanners from some of the nation's biggest airports to smaller ones. But it...
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How Did Scores of Military Units Lose Combat Records in the War on Terror? A...
by Amanda ZamoraThis week, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Peter Sleethanswered questions from Redditors on the revelation that field reports have been lost or are missing for many Army units deployed...
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BP Agrees to Plead Guilty to Crimes in Gulf Oil Spill
by Abrahm Lustgarten BP agreed to plead guilty today to charges of manslaughter, environmental crimes, and lying to Congress in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, which...
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Are You a U.S. Military Vet Who Can’t Obtain War Records? Tell Us Your Story
by Amanda ZamoraOver the last decade, scores of U.S. military units deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan have destroyed or failed to keep field reports of their activities, making it difficult for some...
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High-Prescribing Chicago Psychiatrist Faces Federal Fraud Suit
by Charles Ornstein and Tracy WeberThe U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois filed a federal fraud lawsuit today against a Chicago psychiatrist profiled by ProPublica and the Chicago...
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From Russia With PR
by Justin ElliottNov. 16, 2:50 p.m.This post has been updated.Several opinion columns praising Russia and published in the last two years on CNBC’s web site and the Huffington Post were written by...
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The 10 Most Common Nursing Home Violations
by Charles OrnsteinProPublica today is updating our Nursing Home Inspect tool, which now includes details of more than a quarter-million deficiencies identified by government regulators at U.S....
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U.S. House Subcommittee Sets Hearing on Missing War Records
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublicaNov. 16: This story has been updated. Missing military records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — detailed in a ProPublica-Seattle Times investigation over...
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Insurance Schemer Cops a Plea
by Jake Bernstein In a trial closely watched by the insurance industry, Rhode Island attorney Joseph Caramadre and his former employee Raymour Radhakrishnan pleaded guilty today to charges that they...
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Why Is Arizona Still Counting Votes?
by Suevon LeeIt’s been two weeks since Election Day, but it’s not all over in Arizona. Thousands of early and provisional ballots remain uncounted. These votes aren’t actually expected to impact any...
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Why the U.S. Won’t Allow a Dying Iranian Sociologist to Join His Family
by Cora Currier Dr. Rahmatollah Sedigh Sarvestani is dying. The Iranian sociologist, recently retired from a long teaching career at the University of Tehran, suffers from prostate cancer and a pelvic...
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Homeland Security Has Spent $430 Million on Radios Its Employees Don’t Know...
by Theodoric MeyerGetting the agencies responsible for national security to communicate better was one of the main reasons the Department of Homeland Security was created after the Sept. 11, 2001,...
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