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How a coal miner's autopsy proved a top doctor wrong
After working underground in the coal mines of southern West Virginia for almost 35 years, Steve Day thought it was obvious why he gasped for air, slept upright in a recliner, and inhaled oxygen from a...
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Megabanks have prison financial services market locked up
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series examining how financial companies impose high costs on the families of prison inmates. Part One, which ran on Tuesday, focused on the explosive...
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Open pits offer cheap disposal for fracking sludge, but health worries mount
NORDHEIM, Texas — School Superintendent Kevin Wilson tugged at his oversized belt buckle and gestured toward a field less than a mile from Nordheim School, where 180 children attend kindergarten...
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Obama takes star turn in state political ads
Editor’s note: The Center for Public Integrity is tracking political advertising in races for the U.S. Senate and state-level offices. Use these two, interactive features — with new data every Thursday...
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Eyeballs burn in North Carolina, Iowa ahead of U.S. Senate elections
Editor’s note: The Center for Public Integrity is tracking political advertising in races for the U.S. Senate and state-level offices. Use these two, interactive features — with new data every Thursday...
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Controversial Republican telemarketer forms super PAC
A conservative telemarketer accused of flouting federal election laws — and spamming legions of people with unsolicited anti-Barack Obama text messages — has created a new super PAC.Gabriel S. Joseph...
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Investigators find Islamic State used ammo made in 21 countries, including...
Correction, Oct. 6, 2014: An earlier version of this story reported that IS fighters used oxy-acetylene torches to obscure serial numbers on weapons. According to the Conflict Armament Research report,...
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Senator questions Bank of America’s no-bid prison deal
A senior U.S. Senator is questioning the Treasury Department’s decision to award Bank of America Corp. an exclusive contract to provide technology and financial services in all federal prisons.In a...
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New air monitor planned for heavily fracked South Texas county
Backed by results of a new air-quality study along with mounting pressure from local officials and the simmering discontent of local residents, Texas regulators have decided to install an air monitor...
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A life-and-death struggle for asylum in America
Editors' note: This story was reported in collaboration with The California Report, a production of KQED Public Radio.LOS ANGELES — While other kids enjoyed summer break, a teenager with more on her...
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Sunshine state uses fees to prevent sun from shining on judicial records
When the Center for Public Integrity last summer requested records from Florida’s 17th judicial circuit regarding the procedures and policies surrounding foreclosure cases, officials were more than...
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Money talks: Key dollar amounts behind the TV ad wars in state elections
With roughly a month to go before Election Day, roughly $430 million has been spent airing television ads to influence the elections for state offices. While this is just a midterm year for federal...
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Democrats seize air supremacy in Senate battlegrounds
Editor’s note: The Center for Public Integrity is tracking political advertising in races for the U.S. Senate and state-level offices. Use these two, interactive features — with new data every Thursday...
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Secretive groups spend millions to influence state elections
Editor’s note: The Center for Public Integrity is tracking political advertising in races for the U.S. Senate and state-level offices. Use these two, interactive features — with new data every Thursday...
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FEC's top Democrat takes show on road
Average people don't seem to care about the Federal Election Commission, and the FEC, in its insularity, doesn't seem to care much about such people.That's Vice Chairwoman Ann Ravel's dour assessment...
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'These families are not victims:' readers react to our prison bankers...
Reporters here at the Center often spend weeks, months and sometimes years investigating a single subject, but when that topic is complex, no amount of time feels like it’s enough to truly cover all...
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California coverage plan for undocumented echoes earlier call by Schwarzenegger
Unlike former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, Democrats in Congress decided as they worked on health care reform that providing coverage to the estimated 11.5 million...
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Suit against Kern County schools alleges disproportionate discipline for...
A sweeping lawsuit filed in Kern County, Calif., late last week alleges that African-American and Latino high school students suffer discrimination from disciplinary practices that remove them at...
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Center report spurs investigation of Bank of America, JPMorgan prison deals
Government auditors are investigating exclusive contracts held by Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to provide financial services inside federal prisons.Treasury’s inspector general,...
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A call for more scrutiny of private Medicare Advantage plans
Federal officials need to do a better job ferreting out billing errors and overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans — mistakes which are estimated to cost taxpayers billions of dollars every year, a...
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