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Vietnam Vets’ Fight for Benefits Gets New Crowdsourcing Boost
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Yet Another Scandal Rocks Utah Home for Vulnerable Children
by Joaquin Sapien In 2014, an employee at a group home for troubled children in Utah said they informed superiors that a staff member was having sex with one of the boys the home was charged with...
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What’s at Stake in the Latest Supreme Court Showdown Over Contraception and...
by Sarah Smith and Nina Martin This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Three weeks after oral arguments in what could be the most important abortion rights case in a generation, the U.S....
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Belgium’s Deadly Circles of Terror
by Sebastian Rotella This story was co-produced with Frontline. Over the past several months, Belgian counterterror officials told me they were working nonstop to prevent an attack and that the danger...
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Department of Education Report Calls on Colleges to Step Up Support for Poor...
by Annie Waldman Colleges should be doing more to recruit low-income students and to support them as they work to finish their degrees, says a new report released today by the U.S. Department of...
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Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law Requires an Education Campaign, Which the State...
by Sarah Smith On April 5, when voters cast ballots in Wisconsin’s Republican and Democratic primaries, the state’s controversial voter ID bill will face its biggest test since Governor Scott Walker...
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The Best Reporting on Europe’s Terrorism Threat
by Adam Harris This week, terrorists bombed multiple locations in Brussels, claiming at least 31 lives and making Belgium the latest flashpoint in a wave of attacks across Europe. We've compiled some...
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Cellmates in Solitary, a Secret Gang Database and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Insiders Say NYPD’s Nuisance Unit Skirts the Law and Relies on Unconfirmed...
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. Amid outrage over a law that empowers the NYPD to remove people from their homes...
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How One Reporter Got the Police Shooting Video Everyone Wanted
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Earlier this month Chicago voters decisively ousted Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez....
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Brooklyn Officials Ask State to Investigate Rent Overcharges
by Marcelo Rochabrun Two Brooklyn politicians want the state’s Tenant Protection Unit to investigate rent overcharges at a building ProPublica highlighted last fall in a report on lax oversight of tax...
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Trial and Error: Report Says Prosecutors Rarely Pay Price for Mistakes and...
by Joaquin Sapien The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct...
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Obama Isn’t Following Through on Pardons Promise, Says His Former Pardons...
by Sarah Smith Two years ago, President Obama unveiled an initiative to give early release to potentially thousands of federal prisoners serving long sentences for low-level drug crimes. The...
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Super PACs and Trump’s Wife: How a Photo Dispute Highlights Weakness in...
by Robert Faturechi There’s no evidence to support Donald Trump’s claim that Ted Cruz played a role in a super PAC’s attack on his wife. But federal rules barring coordination between candidates and...
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New York Top Court Revives Suit Against Hospital That Let Man’s Death Be Filmed
by Charles Ornstein New York’s highest court on Thursday revived a lawsuit filed by the family of a man whose death was filmed without permission and then broadcast on a popular medical show. The case...
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How Habitat for Humanity Went to Brooklyn and Poor Families Lost Their Homes
by Marcelo Rochabrun ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate 782, 784 and 786 Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. (Edwin Torres for ProPublica) How Habitat for Humanity...
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Homes Lost in Bed-Stuy, NYC Lead, Prison Phone Profits and More in Muckreads...
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Keeping Tabs on the Hacking Hero Who Became a Criminal Kingpin
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Last month The Atavist Magazine launched The Mastermind, a weekly series on a programmer turned...
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Why North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law is a Trojan Horse
by Nina Martin This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Updated (Apr. 5, 2016): This story has been updated. When North Carolina lawmakers passed what is widely viewed as the most sweeping...
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Amid Public Feuds, A Venerated Medical Journal Finds Itself Under Attack
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Boston Globe. The New England Journal of Medicine is arguably the best-known and most venerated medical journal in the world. Studies featured...
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