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Inequality, Products Over People, And A Warlord In The Best Of MuckReads From...
by Terry Parris Jr and Hanqing ChenEditor's note: This is our year-end super MuckReads list. Since you have plenty to read through the holidays, our next weekly list of MuckReads will appear on Jan....
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High-Level Fed Committee Overruled Carmen Segarra’s Finding on Goldman
by Jake BernsteinA committee that includes senior Federal Reserve officials reviewed and overturned a bank examiner's finding that Goldman Sachs lacked a firm-wide policy to prevent conflicts of...
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U.S. Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization
by Nina MartinThe Vatican has an absolute prohibition on sterilization for the purposes of birth control. The U.S. Catholic bishops consider the procedure "intrinsically immoral," on par with...
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Behind New Jersey’s Tobacco Bond Bailout, A Hedge Fund’s $100 Million Payday
by Cezary PodkulTRENTON, N.J. – When state Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff briefed lawmakers on New Jersey's ailing budget in April, he brought good news. His office had just raised a welcome $92...
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Is This Man Responsible for the Murders of 5 American Nuns?
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Jonathan Jones, GARDNERSVILLE, Liberia — More than 20 years ago, a terrible crime bloodied this suburb of cinderblock homes, dirt-floor stores and lush green...
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When a Patient’s Death is Broadcast Without Permission
by Charles OrnsteinThis story was co-published with the New York Times.Anita Chanko could not sleep. At 4 a.m., on an August night in 2012, she settled onto the couch in her Yorkville living room with...
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New IRS Rules on Dark Money Likely Won’t Be Ready Before 2016 Election
by Theodoric MeyerThe Internal Revenue Service says it won't come out with new proposed rules for so-called dark money groups until late spring at the earliest, increasing the likelihood that no...
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Podcast: When Medical Debts Become an Impossible Burden
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }When patients receive care at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Missouri and don't or can't pay their bill, the nonprofit hospital uses its...
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Illinois Revokes License of Temp Agency Check Cashing Store
by Michael GrabellIllinois regulators revoked the business license last month of a check cashing store featured in a ProPublica investigation of temp agencies and labor brokers in Chicago.The...
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Open Payments Explorer: How Much Industry Money Goes to Doctors and Teaching...
by Lena Groeger , Ryann Grochowski Jones , Charles Ornstein and Mike TigasBeginning in 2014, the federal government mandated that pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers publicly report...
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Vying for Market Share, Companies Heavily Promote ‘Me Too’ Drugs
by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski JonesThis story was co-published with the New York Times' The Upshot.For more than five decades, the blood thinner Coumadin was the only option for millions of...
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Massachusetts Tightens Rules on Restraining, Secluding Students
by Heather VogellSchools in Massachusetts will be subject to new limits on physically restraining or isolating public school students under reforms ushered in late last year.School staff members will...
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Senator Demands Answers on Red Cross’ Finances
by Justin Elliott and Jesse EisingerCiting an investigation by ProPublica and NPR, Sen. Charles Grassley is asking the American Red Cross to explain more clearly how it uses public donations,...
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Judge Orders NYPD to Release Records on X-ray Vans
by Michael GrabellThis story was updated at 12:55 p.m.A state judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release records on a secretive program that uses unmarked vans equipped with...
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Florida’s Sex Crime Sting-and-Switch and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Amanda ZamoraThe Florida sex crime sting-and-switch. WTSP reports a pattern of police misconduct in its ongoing investigation of sex sting operations in Tampa Bay. In some cases, men were facing...
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Hotter Than Lava
by Julia Angwin and Abbie NehringProPublicaShare on FacebookShare on TwitterCommentDonateJustin Volz for ProPublicaHotter Than LavaEvery day, cops toss dangerous military-style grenades during raids,...
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The Human Toll of Flashbangs
by Abbie Nehring , Sisi Wei and Lena GroegerAt least 50 Americans have been seriously injured, maimed or killed by flashbangs since 2000. Here are their stories.
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Podcast: ‘NY Med’ Aired Patient’s Death Without Family’s Consent
by Sara Afzal .player_box { display: none; }As Anita Chanko watched ABC’s medical docu-series “NY Med,” the shock and outrage set in: she recognized the blurred out image of a man in the operating...
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Can You Judge Etan Patz’s Accused Killer Fairly? Here Are 109 Questions to Start
by Joe SextonUnderstood broadly, jury duty is an honor and privilege. Experienced daily, it can feel like a pain in the neck – the hours spent waiting, the complications of work or child care, the...
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Years After Tobacco Deals Sold, SEC Says Rating Agencies Still Conflicted
by Cezary PodkulIn our story last month about credit rating agencies and tobacco bonds, we detailed numerous instances in which bankers pressured Standard & Poor's, Fitch and Moody's to give...
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