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The Senate Report on CIA Interrogations You May Never See
by Cora CurrierA Senate committee is close to putting the final stamp on a massive report on the CIA’s detention, interrogation and rendition of terror suspects. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,...
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Interior Secretary Moves to Tighten Rules Over Sale of Wild Horses
by Dave Philipps, Special to ProPublicaThis story was co-published with the Colorado Springs Gazette. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar says he will tighten regulations of the federal government's wild...
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The Other Crucial Civil Rights Case the Supreme Court Will be Ruling On
by Suevon Lee On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear two cases challenging state and federal laws which prevent the legal union between same-sex couples. But it's not the only...
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Poisoning the Well: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s...
by Abrahm Lustgarten Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground...
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Crowdsourcing Campaign Spending: What We Learned From Free the Files
by Amanda Zamora .propub-listicle h2 { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 28px !important; padding-top: 1.3em; padding-bottom: 0em; }This fall, ProPublica set out to Free the Files,...
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Iranian Sociologist’s Dying Wish to Join His Family—Rejected by the U.S.
by Cora CurrierA dying Iranian sociologist has been trying desperately to come to the U.S. in order to be with his family and receive potentially life-saving cancer treatment. The U.S. has just given...
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MuckReads, Meet RebelMouse
by Amanda ZamoraWe are happy to alert fans of our popular MuckReads feature that you can now read Mucks on Facebook, too.This week, we relaunched MuckReads to make it easier for you to find our...
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Are Voter ID Laws Here to Stay?
by Suevon Lee Voter ID laws were one of the most contentious issues of the past election season. (Here is everything you need to know about the laws.) Proponents insisted IDs should be required at...
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Mexico’s Newspapers Shy From Covering the Drug Gangs Behind Continuing Violence
by Stephen Engelberg Mexico's regional newspapers are publishing more stories about murders linked to the drug trade, but they remain reluctant to write what they know about the organizations...
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Karl Rove’s Dark Money Group Promised IRS It Would Spend ‘Limited’ Money on...
by Kim Barker In a confidential 2010 filing, Crossroads GPS — the dark money group that spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors on the 2012 election — told the Internal Revenue Service that...
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The Best Reporting on Guns in America
by Blair Hickman , Suevon Lee and Cora CurrierUpdate: With today's shooting in Newtown, Conn., this article, first published July 24, 2012, unfortunately seems relevant again.In the wake of last...
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Cheat Sheet: BofA Supplied Default Answers for ‘Independent’ Foreclosure...
by Paul Kiel The Independent Foreclosure Review is the government's main effort to compensate homeowners for harm they suffered at the hands of banks — and, as its name indicates, it's supposed to be...
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What’s New In Nursing Home Inspect
by Charles Ornstein and Lena GroegerToday we’re updating our Nursing Home Inspect tool to include more information about federal sanctions against nursing homes across the country, including fines and...
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Two Deaths, Wildly Different Penalties: The Big Disparities in Nursing Home...
by Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger .nh-image { float:left }To see the federal government’s inconsistent oversight of nursing homes, one needs only to look at what happened after two residents died —...
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Updated Nursing Home Inspection Tool
by Lena Groeger and Charles OrnsteinWe’ve updated our app with new data and a new design, making it easier to find nursing home problems in your state.
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Did You Buy a Variable Annuity with Lifetime Guarantee Benefit? Tell Us Your...
by Jake BernsteinIn the early 2000s, life insurers introduced a new retirement product – variable annuities with guaranteed living withdrawal benefits (GLWB).The lifetime withdrawal benefit was...
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Seven of the Most Striking Ways States Have Loosened Gun Laws
by Suevon LeeFriday’s deadly rampage at a Connecticut elementary school marked the 13th mass shooting in the United States this year. Among the 11 deadliest shootings in U.S. history, more than half...
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Key Convictions Overturned in Killing by New Orleans Police
by A.C. Thompson A federal appellate court has overturned the convictions of two former New Orleans police officers imprisoned in connection with the killing of Henry Glover after Hurricane Katrina,...
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TSA to Commission Independent Study of X-Ray Body Scanners
by Michael Grabell Following months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the health effects of...
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We’ve Nationalized the Home Mortgage Market. Now What?
by Jesse Eisinger At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, the country heatedly debated whether to nationalize the failing banking system. Both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations...
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