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Unraveling the Freddie-Fannie Tangle
by Jesse Eisinger and Cora Currier div ul {clear: right; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style:disc;} div ul li {margin:0 0 5px 15px; position relative;} In the aftermath...
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Podcast: How the Wal-Mart Bribery in Mexico Investigation Came Together
by Mike Webb For our first MuckReads podcast of 2013, we invited New York Times reporter David Barstow to talk to our editor Steve Engelberg about his investigation into how Wal-Mart used bribery to...
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Controversial Dark Money Group Among Five That Told IRS They Would Stay Out...
by Kim Barker Five conservative dark money groups active in 2012 elections previously told tax regulators that they would not engage in politics, filings obtained from the IRS show. The best known and...
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Watchdogs to IRS: Reject Rove Group’s Tax Application
by Justin ElliottTwo watchdog groups are calling on the IRS to reject Crossroads GPS’ request to be recognized as a social welfare nonprofit.Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center, nonpartisan...
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Families Shoulder Heftier Burdens as College Debt Swells
by Marian Wang div ul {clear: right; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; list-style:disc;} div ul li {margin:0 0 5px 15px; position relative;}It's been a year of eye-popping...
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Mass Shootings Do Little to Change State Gun Laws
by Joaquin Sapien Following the mass shooting in Connecticut, the Obama administration and lawmakers around the country have promised to re-examine gun control in America. ProPublica decided to take a...
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How You Can Help ProPublica Cover Patient Safety
by Marshall Allen Among the more active members of our Facebook group on patient safety, Veronica James stands out. She joined soon after we started the group in May and shared the story of her...
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World Bank’s IFC Arm Responds to Our Critique of Its Poverty Fighting
Below is a letter from an official of the World Bank's International Finance Corp., taking issue with our article posted Jan. 2 and co-published with Foreign Policy magazine. It is followed by our...
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Facing a Second Trial, Ernie Lopez Takes Plea Deal
by A.C. ThompsonThis story was co-published with PBS Frontline. Ernie Lopez, an Amarillo man whose sexual assault conviction was reversed after experts questioned the forensic evidence used against...
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Five Federal Policies on Guns You’ve Never Heard Of
by Suevon Lee1/7/2013: This story has been corrected. U.S. gun policy is set by both state and federal law. We previously published an explainer on the ways states have eased gun restrictions. But...
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Feds Replace Flawed Foreclosure Review With Vague $8.5 Billion Settlement
by Paul Kiel The Independent Foreclosure Review was supposed to be a full and fair investigation of the big banks' foreclosure abuses, and it was trumpeted as the government's largest effort to...
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Home Builders Lobby Weakens Drywall Legislation
by Joaquin Sapien Last week, federal lawmakers trumpeted the passage of the Drywall Safety Act of 2012 as a bipartisan victory for thousands of homeowners harmed by contaminated drywall. "This is a...
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Although a Fugitive, Accused Guatemalan War Criminal Hasn’t Run Far
by Sebastian Rotella Retired Col. César Adán Rosales Batres, a veteran of the elite Kaibil commandos of the Guatemalan Army, is a wanted war criminal and a fugitive with an Interpol warrant on his...
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What a New Doctor Learned About Medical Mistakes From Her Mom’s Death
by Marshall AllenFor Dr. Elaine Goodman, the strongest lessons in patient safety didn’t come from her training. They came from her mother’s death. Goodman had just finished her first year of medical...
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Feds Release Nursing Home Inspections, Free of Censor’s Marks
by Charles OrnsteinIn response to a Freedom of Information Act request by ProPublica, the government has released unredacted write-ups of problems found during nursing home inspections around the...
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In Minnesota, Democratic Grandmas Gather Data About Their Neighbors
by Lois Beckett In Minnesota, Democratic volunteers scour their local newspapers each morning for letters to the editor with a political slant. They pay attention to the names of callers on radio...
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Everything We Know So Far About Drone Strikes
by Cora CurrierYou might have heard about the “kill list.” You’ve certainly heard about drones. But the details of the U.S. campaign against militants in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia -- a centerpiece...
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How a Government Report Spread a Questionable Claim About Iran
by Justin ElliottSeveral media outlets reported this month on an alarming finding from a new U.S. government study: Iran’s intelligence ministry, as CNN put it, constitutes “a terror and assassination...
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Revealed: America’s Arms Sales To Bahrain Amid Bloody Crackdown
by Justin ElliottDespite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation.Defense Department documents...
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Where Congress Stands on Guns
by Lena GroegerIn the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy, President Obama on Wednesday will announce new national gun control measures. He has already urged members of Congress to do the same. Here is...
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