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Trump Hailed This State’s Prison Reforms as a National Model — but the...
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Last November, as he rallied support for federal prison reform, President Donald Trump visited Gulfport, Mississippi, touting the...
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Listen to TurboTax Lie to Get Out of Refunding Overcharged Customers
by Justin Elliott and Meg Marco The makers of TurboTax have long been luring customers into paying for a service that they promised the government they’d give away for free. Now they’re lying to...
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ProPublica Wins Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting
by ProPublica The Education Writers Association announced this week that ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier won the Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, the top prize in...
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The New Gold Rush: Illinois Lawmakers Are Growing Worried as Neighbors Move...
by Derrick Clifton 1) Welcome to Kentucky, where the gambling industry was “buying its own regulator.” Horse racing tracks in Kentucky were paying to regulate their own video gambling machines, says...
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What We’ve Learned From Trump’s Tax Transcripts — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast
by Andrea Bernstein President Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns. He has sued his former accountants and Deutsche Bank to keep them from releasing his returns after they were...
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We Stick With Our Stories Until We See Results
by Steve Mills You know how in “The Godfather, Part III,” the aging Michael Corleone describes Mafia life: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in”? The journalism we do at ProPublica...
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New York Regulator Launches Investigation Into TurboTax Maker Intuit and H&R...
by Justin Elliott New York’s Department of Financial Services, one of the most powerful state regulators in the country, has launched an investigation into Intuit, the maker of the leading tax...
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More Than Me Still Lacks Adequate Systems to Protect Children in Its Care,...
by Finlay Young for ProPublica The U.S. charity More Than Me has released a report by law firm McLane Middleton that identifies significant deficits in the charity’s policies, governance and...
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A High-Speed Internet Boondoggle Is Now a Campaign Issue in Kentucky
by Alfred Miller, Louisville Courier-Journal Candidates for governor of both parties are using Kentucky's long-delayed and over-budget statewide internet project to bash Gov. Matt Bevin, following a...
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ProPublica Illinois Honored With Five Peter Lisagor Awards From the Chicago...
by ProPublica Illinois ProPublica Illinois won five Peter Lisagor Awards on Friday for its investigative reporting, feature writing, data journalism and blogs. The Lisagor Awards, presented by the...
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“I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil...
by Jessica Huseman MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The exuberant greeter, who said her name was Wanda, hugged each of the secretaries of state as they walked through the doors of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church....
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NYU Hires Law Firm to Investigate Behavior of Steinhardt, a Prominent Donor
by Sharon Otterman, The New York Times NYU said on Monday that it had hired a prominent law firm to investigate whether the namesake of its school of education, Michael H. Steinhardt, had engaged in...
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¿En qué parte de los Estados Unidos es más probable que el IRS lleve a cabo...
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The Country That Exiled McKinsey
by Ian MacDougall, ProPublica, and Anand Tumurtogoo for ProPublica In 2010, amid a historic commodities boom fueled by the explosion of China’s economy, international companies began turning their...
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KentuckyWired: Our Rural Broadband Investigation, Explained
by Alfred Miller, Louisville Courier-Journal Kentucky’s ambitious plan to improve high-speed internet access across the state is years behind schedule and more than $100 million over budget....
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Did You Pay to Use TurboTax? Help Us Hold the Tax Prep Industry Accountable.
by Ariana Tobin, Justin Elliott, and Meg Marco We’ve heard from hundreds of people who said they paid to file their taxes even when they were eligible to file for free. These reader tips have been...
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At Chicago’s City Council, Committees Are Used to Reward Political Favors and...
by Mick Dumke The Chicago City Council’s Transportation Committee has an annual budget of more than $467,000 to cover expenses related to its work on legislation and government oversight. But little...
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We’re Reporting on Ransomware. Do You Know Something About an Attack?
by Renee Dudley and Jeff Kao Ransomware is a form of extortion in which hackers lock computer files until victims pay money to regain access to their networks. Attacks have targeted individuals, large...
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The Trade Secret: Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost...
by Renee Dudley and Jeff Kao From 2015 to 2018, a strain of ransomware known as SamSam paralyzed computer networks across North America and the U.K. It caused more than $30 million in damage to at...
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Intuit CEO in Internal Video: Hiding Free TurboTax Was In “Best Interest of...
by Justin Elliott and Lucas Waldron Sasan Goodarzi, the CEO of Intuit, says the company’s efforts to make its free tax-filing software harder to find on Google were part of the software giant’s...
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