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They Didn’t Have The Evidence. He Spent 589 Days In Jail Anyway. (MuckReads...
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The Disturbing Ways America Keeps Up With Its Demand for Meat
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} When we go to the supermarket, we rarely think about how that piece of chicken or piece of pork...
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Hot Takes: The Top Climate Change Reporting of the Past Year
by Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica, Last week, President Obama unveiled the Clean Power Plan, a pillar of his legacy project and his most ambitious exercise of executive authority to combat climate...
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After Years of Study, the FDA Endorses Safety Device for Liquid Children’s...
by T. Christian Miller and Jeff Gerth The Food and Drug Administration has endorsed the use of a safety device for bottles of children’s medication containing liquid acetaminophen, the active...
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FEC Itemizer: Browse Federal Campaign Finance Filings
by Derek Willis Itemizer allows you to browse electronic campaign finance filings from the Federal Election Commission and to see individual contributions and expenditures reported by committees...
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Insurance Lobby That Fought Hillarycare and Obamacare Now Has Sturdy Bridges...
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. When the former head of the U.S. government’s health insurance programs was hired in July to run a lobby that had spent tens of...
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New York City Hospitals to End Filming Without Consent
by Annie Waldman Bruised by criticism after a reality TV show surreptitiously recorded and aired a man’s death, New York City hospitals will no longer allow patients to be filmed without getting prior...
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Chris Christie’s Tunnel Tango
by Cezary Podkul When we wrote in April about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s budget “sins,” one of the biggest was the money shuffle he engineered after his 2010 decision to kill an $8.7 billion...
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Company That Sued Soldiers Closes Its Stores
by Paul Kiel For the first time in its history, USA Discounters is living up to its name. For years, the company has specialized in selling marked-up appliances, electronics and furniture to service...
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When Only 15% of Defendants Can Afford $500 Bail and More in Muckreads Weekly
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NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica; Charlie Savage and James Risen, The New York Times; and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica, ProPublica How We Reported It Share on...
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A Trail of Evidence Leading to AT&T’s Partnership with the NSA
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica; and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica, ProPublica Read Main Story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat,...
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‘Half Bemused, Half Really Afraid’: What It’s Like Reporting on the High Seas
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} There's an old saying in journalism that there are no new stories, everything's been done before,...
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Nonprofit Explorer
by Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei We’ve updated our Nonprofit Explorer app with over 600,000 new tax filings from FY2013. Use the database to search over 1.8 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations.
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A Trail of Evidence Leading to AT&T’s Partnership with the NSA
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica; and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica, ProPublica Read Main Story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat,...
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Red Cross CEO Tried to Kill Government Investigation
by Justin Elliott This story was co-produced with NPR. American Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern has long portrayed her organization as a beacon of openness, once declaring “we made a commitment that we...
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Speed Bumps: Why It’s So Hard to Catch Cheaters in Track and Field
by David Epstein, ProPublica, and Michael J. Joyner, special to ProPublica, Earlier this month, London’s Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD published a joint investigation on doping in track and...
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ProPublica’s ‘Get Involved’ Aims to Spur More Crowd-Powered News
by Amanda Zamora Over the next year, with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ProPublica will be working to improve how we engage communities to help us create journalism that...
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Show Me a Hero: a Q&A with David Simon
by Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica, David Simon’s new HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero,” which premiered last Sunday, is the harrowing tale of a hopeless battle. Based on a nonfiction book of the same...
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Treatment Tracker Methodology
by Lena Groeger , Ryann Grochowski Jones and Charles Ornstein Updated: August 2015 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released data in June 2015 on the treatments performed by, and the...
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