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Flight Records Say Russia Sent Syria Tons of Cash
by Dafna Linzer , Michael Grabell and Jeff LarsonThis past summer, as the Syrian economy began to unravel and the military pressed hard against an armed rebellion, a Syrian government plane ferried...
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Have U.S. Drones Become a ‘Counterinsurgency Air Force’ for Our Allies?
by Justin ElliottOn Sunday the New York Times reported that the Obama administration, prompted by the possibility of losing the election, has been developing a “formal rule book” to govern the use of...
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Dead On the Operating Table: A Q&A with journalist Mina Kimes
by Marshall AllenWhen the multibillion dollar medical device maker Synthes enticed doctors to use its bone cement on people’s spines, patients died on the operating table. The company’s actions led to...
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Syria Claims Turkey Committed ‘Air Piracy,’ New Documents Say
by Mark Schoofs and Jeff LarsonDocuments posted online Monday by hackers associated with the online group Anonymous appear to give new details on a Syrian passenger flight from Moscow to Damascus that...
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EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Operations
by Abrahm LustgartenUpdate (Nov. 28): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today it was temporarily debarring BP, suspending the company from receiving new contracts with the federal...
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Live Discussion: What Do EPA Sanctions Mean for BP’s Future?
by Blair HickmanThe Environmental Protection Agency temporarily banned oil giant BP from receiving new government contracts Wednesday, citing a “lack of business integrity” over the 2010 Deepwater...
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Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill
by Abrahm LustgartenWhen the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's "lack of business integrity" and conduct relating to the 2010 Deepwater...
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Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics
by Lois BeckettThis post is being kept up-to-date. It was first published on Nov. 13.For the past nine months, we’ve been following how political campaigns use data about voters to target them in...
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To Retrieve Attack Helicopters from Russia, Syria Asks Iraq for Help,...
by Michael Grabell, Dafna Linzer, and Jeff LarsonIn late October, Syria asked Iraqi authorities to grant air access for a cargo plane transporting refurbished attack helicopters from Russia, according...
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Meet the Think Tankers Advising the U.S. Military in Kabul
by Justin ElliottAmid the media frenzy over former CIA director David Petraeus’ extramarital affair, we were struck by a quick reference in a Washington Post story about Petraeus’ time running the war...
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How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters
by Cora Currier In a natural disaster or other emergency, one of the first things you're likely to reach for is your cellphone. Landlines are disappearing. More than 30 percent of American households...
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Lost War Records: Watch The Congressional Hearing
By Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublicaA congressional subcommittee today plans to take up the topic of missing war records from Iraq and Afghanistan, the subject of a ProPublica-Seattle Times...
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Snooping On the X-ray Tech: A Patient’s Dilemma
by Marshall AllenI found myself in the hospital recently, watching my 11-year-old son get an X-ray for an arm he broke after a fall from his skateboard. As the technician positioned his arm on a table...
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No Warrant, No Problem: How The Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data
by Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass
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Iraq Blocks Syria’s Request to Fetch Combat Helicopters from Russia
by Michael Grabell, Dafna Linzer and Jeff Larson, ProPublica Iraq has shut its airspace to four Syrian flights scheduled to pick up attack helicopters that had been repaired in Russia, the spokesman to...
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Veterans’ Advocate to Congress: Reconstruct Missing War Records
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica The leader of a national veterans' advocacy group urged a congressional subcommittee to force the Department of Defense to immediately reconstruct — if possible —...
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The New Border: Illegal Immigration’s Shifting Frontier
by Sebastian Rotella TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico — Oscar and Jennifer Cruz knew that crossing the border would be the easy part. The Salvadoran brother and sister made their way over the international...
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FCC’s Plan for Fixing Its Political Ads Transparency Site? It Won’t Say
by Justin ElliottWhen the Federal Communications Commission passed a rule earlier this year to require TV stations to post political ad buying information online, public interest groups (and...
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Cutting through the Controversy about Indefinite Detention and the NDAA
by Cora CurrierOn Tuesday, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a yearly military spending bill.Last year, the bill affirmed the U.S.’s authority to hold suspected...
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Have You Experienced Housing Discrimination? Tell Us Your Story
by Nikole Hannah-JonesIn July 2007, a Minnesota landlord arranged to show a duplex to a potential renter. But when she arrived at the rental and saw the prospective tenant was black she refused to get...
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