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The VA Is Paying for a Top Official’s Cross-Country Commute
by Isaac Arnsdorf The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paid $13,000 over a three-month period for a senior official’s biweekly commute to Washington from his home in California, according to...
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Investigation of Disasters Sparks Debate Over Navy’s Readiness and...
by T. Christian Miller, Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and Kengo Tsutsumi Last week, we published our stories on the Navy’s deadliest accidents in 40 years and the failure of Navy leaders to heed...
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The Lucky Ones
by Adriana Gallardo The first stories we can correct are the ones we tell ourselves. My story, the one I have hung onto since I was a little girl, is that I got lucky. Luck made sense because luck can...
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House Panel Probes Trump Advisers’ Push for Saudi Nuclear Deal
by Isaac Arnsdorf The Trump administration has continued pursuing a proposed nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia despite warnings from ethics lawyers and security experts, according to a...
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ProPublica’s “Zero Tolerance” Wins Polk Award for Immigration Reporting
by ProPublica ProPublica’s “Zero Tolerance” series on the Trump administration’s immigration policy at the border won this year’s George Polk Award in Journalism in the immigration reporting category....
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Trump Inauguration Chief Tom Barrack’s “Rules for Success” — “Trump, Inc.”...
by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC Last year, our “Trump, Inc.” podcast with WNYC explored the mystery of how Donald Trump’s inaugural managed to raise and spend $107 million. A lot...
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How Has the “Crack Cocaine of Gambling” Affected Illinois? The State Hasn’t...
by Jason Grotto and Sandhya Kambhampati, ProPublica Illinois, and Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ Chicago Orville Dash sits in a recliner with a clipboard. Tall and broad-shouldered, with wispy white hair...
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New Documentary Chronicles the Challenges of New York’s Supported Housing...
by ProPublica Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. Frontline and ProPublica...
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Behind the Scenes, Health Insurers Use Cash and Gifts to Sway Which Benefits...
by Marshall Allen The pitches to the health insurance brokers are tantalizing. “Set sail for Bermuda,” says insurance giant Cigna, offering top-selling brokers five days at one of the island’s luxury...
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Cook County Takes Steps to Erase Its Regional Gang Database
by Mick Dumke Over the years, a gang database maintained by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office grew to include more than 25,000 names, as well as countless errors. Now it’s on the verge of being...
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A pesar de sus duras palabras contra traficantes de migrantes, Trump ha...
por Sebastian Rotella y Tim Golden (Read in English.) En su cruzada para construir un muro en la frontera, el Presidente Trump ha venido alertando sobre el robo de empleos a trabajadores...
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New Jersey Said 10 Years Ago It Would Rank Its Most Contaminated Sites. It...
by Talia Buford For decades, New Jersey’s chemical plants, textile mills and metal factories helped power America. That came at a price. Byproducts like dioxin from the manufacture of the herbicide...
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Despite Trump’s Tough Talk About Migrant Smugglers, He’s Undercut Efforts to...
by Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden (Leer en español.) In his quest to build a border wall, President Donald Trump has warned of jobs stolen from American workers, suburbs terrorized by criminal...
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What You Should Know About Richard Sackler’s Long-Sought Deposition
by Gideon Gil, STAT STAT and ProPublica have published the long-sought deposition of Dr. Richard Sackler, a member of the billionaire family that founded and controls Purdue Pharma, the maker of...
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Sackler Embraced Plan to Conceal OxyContin’s Strength From Doctors, Sealed...
by David Armstrong In May 1997, the year after Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin, its head of sales and marketing sought input on a key decision from Dr. Richard Sackler, a member of the billionaire...
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Who Was Behind the Plan to Give Saudi Arabia Nuclear Power, and What Was...
by Charles Herman, WNYC For a year, “Trump, Inc.” has been digging into the 2017 inauguration. That reporting led us to look closely at the man Donald Trump picked to run the event, Tom Barrack, a...
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FBI Scientist’s Statements Linked Defendants to Crimes, Even When His Lab...
by Ryan Gabrielson A man stepped into a rural South Carolina bank a few days before Christmas in 2001, aimed a gun at tellers and stole $7,800 from the drawers. Witnesses couldn’t identify the robber....
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At Chicago City Hall, the Legislative Branch Rarely Does Much Legislating
by Mick Dumke As she drove through her South Side ward one morning last month, Alderman Pat Dowell slowed up alongside a business on the corner of Prairie Avenue and 51st Street. The owners of the...
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How I Learned to Let Communities Guide Our Local Reporting Projects
by Beena Raghavendran The journalism event we’d planned for months in East St. Louis, Illinois, was hours away. And I couldn’t get rid of the nerves churning in my stomach. So I did what I do when I’m...
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Navy Promised Changes After Deadly Accidents, but Many Within Doubt It’s...
by Robert Faturechi and T. Christian Miller After two of its destroyers were involved in deadly accidents in the summer of 2017, the Navy’s leaders pledged real change: more sailors for their ships,...
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