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Are Your Strawberries Grown with These Dangerous Pesticides? And More in...
by Terry Parris JrAre your strawberries grown with these dangerous pesticides? Nine out of 10 strawberries come from California. But to keep this $2.6 billion industry growing, farmers rely on a...
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Secret Tapes Hint at Turmoil in New York Fed Team Monitoring JPMorgan
by Jake BernsteinAs the Federal Reserve Bank of New York moved to beef up its oversight of Wall Street two years ago, the team charged with supervising the nation's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, was...
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The Carmen Segarra Tapes
by Jake BernsteinOn Sept. 26, ProPublica, in partnership with the radio program This American Life, revealed that a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had secretly recorded...
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Scoring the Latest Tobacco Bond Bailout: Investors $10, Taxpayers $1
by Cezary PodkulIn our story last month about a tobacco bond bailout by New York's Niagara County, we noted that another county, Chautauqua, also had a deal in the works involving its distressed...
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Talk To Us About Our Firestone Investigation on WhatsApp
by Terry Parris JrIn 1989, warlord Charles Taylor helped plunge Liberia into a brutal, bloody and prolonged civil war. On Nov. 18, ProPublica and Frontline investigate the untold story of the...
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Firestone and the Warlord
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Mixed Company: Sights and Sounds of Liberians and the Impact of War
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Charter School Chain Finally Discloses Salaries – With One Missing
by Marian WangLast week, it appeared that a North Carolina charter school chain had finally put an end to more than a month of wrangling with state regulators when it turned over salary data for...
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Federal Reserve Announces Sweeping Review of Its Big Bank Oversight
by Jake BernsteinEditor's Note: This story has been updated to cover the Federal Reserve Board's announcement that it would review its supervision of large banks.On the eve of a U.S. Senate hearing...
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The Two Things That Rarely Happen After a Medical Mistake
by Olga Pierce and Marshall AllenThis story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog.Patients who suffer injuries, infections or mistakes during medical care rarely get an acknowledgment or apology,...
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WhatsApp Followers From Around the World Discuss ‘Firestone and the Warlord’
by Terry Parris JrWhen ProPublica and Frontline launched " Firestone and the Warlord," a sweeping investigation into the relationship between Liberian warlord Charles Taylor and the iconic American...
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New York Fed Chief Stands Firm Against Charges of Weak Oversight
by Jake BernsteinWASHINGTON – For almost two hours Friday, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York defended heated assertions from Democratic senators that his institution is too cozy...
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‘That Wasn’t A Piece Of Meat … That Was My Son’ And More In MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr"That wasn't a piece of meat with eyes, that was a human being." It was 24-year-old Dennis Munson Jr.'s first kickboxing fight. The first round went OK. The third round didn't....
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Podcast: Firestone’s Secret History in Liberia
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }In 1989, African warlord Charles Taylor launched an uprising in Liberia that eventually killed over 200,000 people and left half the country's population as...
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Confession Ruled Admissible in Etan Patz Case
by Naveena SadasivamA New York State Supreme Court Judge ruled Monday that prosecutors may use the confession of the man charged with strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz to death in 1979.In denying the...
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Gov’t Data Sharpens Focus on Crude-Oil Train Routes
by Isaiah Thompson, special to ProPublica, The oil boom underway in North Dakota has delivered jobs to local economies and helped bring the United States to the brink of being a net energy exporter for...
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Patient Safety Journal Adjusts After an Eye-Opening Scandal
by Marshall AllenThis story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog.The aftershocks of what's been called "patient safety's first scandal" continue to reverberate in the medical community, most...
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A Planes, Trains, And Automobiles Edition of MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris JrThis week's MuckReads takes a different approach. Instead of the best investigative reporting from the last week, we decided to pull together reporting from the last year that...
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Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for...
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Crude Connections: Where Do Trains Carry Crude Oil?
by Yue QiuThe amount of crude oil being carried on America’s railroads has grown enormously in recent years. Though the routes taken by crude-bearing trains is hidden from the public, safety-incident...
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