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Nowhere to Run
by Pia Dangelmayer Every day we’re struck by terrible headlines concerning the refugee crisis in Europe: Austria finds 71 migrants dead in a truck. Hungarian police officers fire teargas at migrants....
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Did the Famous Desegregation of Yonkers Actually Work?
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Congressional Leaders Ask FDA About Coumadin Safety
by Charles Ornstein The bipartisan leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is asking the Food and Drug Administration how it monitors the safety of the popular blood thinner Coumadin,...
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Passing the Test
by Marcelo Rochabrun As 65,000 4-year-olds start free, full-time pre-kindergarten today as part of New York City’s ambitious universal pre-K program, questions persist about whether the program is...
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First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS...
by Julia Angwin Since Edward Snowden exposed the extent of online surveillance by the U.S. government, there has been a surge of initiatives to protect users’ privacy. But it hasn’t taken long for one...
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Blue Water Veterans Share Their Agent Orange Stories
by Terry Parris Jr. The U.S. military sprayed about 19 million gallons of defoliants during the Vietnam War. The chemicals — mostly Agent Orange — killed the jungle brush and denied the enemy cover,...
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40 Years After Vietnam, Blue Water Navy Vets Still Fighting for Agent Orange...
by Charles Ornstein and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, The Virginian-Pilot, This story was co-published with The Virginian-Pilot. To the best of his knowledge, Jim Smith never saw...
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A Pension Bond Reality Check
by Allan Sloan, This story was co-published with the Washington Post. The scary stock market that we’ve seen since mid-August is a classic example of how reality keeps intruding on theory. And it...
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The ‘Too Small’ HBCU That Sends More Blacks to Medical School Than Anyone...
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Debt By Degrees
by Sisi Wei and Annie Waldman Use our interactive database to search new federal data on almost 7,000 schools in the U.S. to see how well they support their poorest students financially.
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Colleges Flush With Cash Saddle Poorest Students With Debt
by Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei New York University is among the country’s wealthiest schools. Backed by its $3.5 billion endowment, the school has built campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, invested...
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Q&A: Can a Divided Europe Handle the Refugee Crisis?
by Sebastian Rotella Laura Boldrini, the president of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, has unusually strong credentials to discuss the immigration crisis gripping Europe. She worked for a quarter century...
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The Roots, Rhetoric and Remedies of Europe’s Migrant Crisis Explained
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Trial And Error: A Man Convicted of Murder Wins Release, and Questions of...
by Joaquin Sapien Late last month, 53-year-old Ruddy Quezada was released from prison after serving 24 years for murder. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office conceded that prosecutors in the office...
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‘American Red Cross Sunshine Act’ Would Open Charity to Outside Scrutiny
by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR, Federal legislation is being unveiled today that would force the American Red Cross to do something that it has repeatedly resisted: open its...
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Everyone’s Juicing
by David Epstein Earlier this month, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it had busted 16 underground labs and seized 134,000 steroid tablets and pills, 8,200 liters of injectable...
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How Senate Hopefuls Keep Donors Secret From Voters Until It’s Too Late
by Derek Willis and Robert Faturechi For nearly 15 years, voters have been able to click a mouse to view an up-to-date list of who’s contributed to candidates for the presidency and the U.S. House,...
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De Blasio’s Pre-K Program Adds 12,000 Kids, Only 195 Come from Poorest ZIP Codes
by Marcelo Rochabrun Mayor Bill de Blasio’s universal pre-K program has seen registrations increase by 12,000 children in its second year of operations, with double-digit percentage increases across...
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Exxon’s Own Scientists Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Back in...
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New Court Docs: Maker of Tylenol Had a Plan to Block Tougher Regulation
by Jeff Gerth and T. Christian Miller Recently filed court documents show the makers of Tylenol planned to enlist the White House and lawmakers to block the Food and Drug Administration from imposing...
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