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Gubernatorial hopefuls outspend U.S. Senate candidates
With less than three weeks to go until the Nov. 4 elections, roughly $817 million has already been spent on television ads for state-level office and the U.S. Senate. Here are some facts about the ad...
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Ads in U.S. Senate contests turn nasty
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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Bloomberg helps Democratic governors' group close gap on Republicans
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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Center for Public Integrity hires Carrie Levine as federal politics reporter
Political journalist and investigator Carrie Levine today joins the Center for Public Integrity as federal politics reporter exploring the influence of money in politics.Levine will primarily write for...
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Comparison shopping for a health plan
During the last few weeks of this year, most of us will need to make a decision about our health insurance coverage for 2015, regardless of whether we get it through an employer or buy it on our own....
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GAO takes on Medicare Advantage spending
A Congressional committee has taken aim at waste in the popular Medicare Advantage health insurance program for seniors, ordering an extensive audit of billing errors and overcharges by insurers —...
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Energy Department inspector blocked from probing dismissal of Hanford engineer
When nuclear engineer Donna Busche was firedin February from her job managing safety at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, she complained that it was a reprisal for her repeated warnings...
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Ex-senators Breaux and Lott confirm lobbying for Russian bank on Ukraine...
Former Sens. Trent Lott and John Breaux were part of a team paid $150,000 by a Russian bank to lobby on U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, according to a new disclosure their firm has filed with...
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Super PACs exploit disclosure loophole
Super PACs must, by law, publicly reveal their donors.Except, that is, for those that materialize during the final days of the 2014 midterm election.Thanks to a contentious quirk in federal law, at...
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Pennsylvania super PAC gets 'dark money' infusion
In the home stretch of the 2014 election, a new super PAC with ties to Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., finds itself flush with “dark money,” according to a new campaign finance filing with the Federal Election...
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Corporations, advocacy groups spend big on ballot measures
Editor’s note: The Center for Public Integrity is tracking political advertising in races for the U.S. Senate, state-level offices and now state ballot measures. Use these interactive features — with...
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North Carolina's state of political hate
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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Power shifts to outsiders in U.S. Senate fight
The days of candidates dominating their own political campaigns are over.In the most competitive U.S. Senate races this year, big-money special interests that proliferated after the U.S. Supreme...
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Health insurers press for high-deductible, low-benefit policies
As we head into the final stretch before next week’s midterm elections, Americans continue to have wide-ranging views of Obamacare, but even many who have an unfavorable view of it say they would...
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Another whistleblower suit alleges Medicare Advantage fraud
A new whistleblower lawsuit accuses a California health care firm of diagnosing “false and fraudulent” medical conditions that several Medicare Advantage plans allegedly used to overcharge the federal...
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California takes on harsh discipline and academic inequities for black,...
As the national debate over childhood inequities sharpens, recent developments in California highlight struggles over practices critics say deprive some kids of quality class time and fuel a...
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Flush with mystery money, Kentucky nonprofit haunts Grimes’ Senate bid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The most mysterious force in Kentucky’s pivotal U.S. Senate race is a ghost that dwells in a hole in a wall.Hunt for the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, and one finds no grassroots...
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Center wins four Eppy awards
The Center for Public Integrity was honored today with four 2014 EPPY awards from Editor & Publisher. The winning entries, and the categories:Best News Website with under 1 million unique monthly...
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U.S. Senate races to attract 1 million TV ads
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Mega-donors give big to state candidates
At least 29 donors have given $1 million or more to state-level campaigns so far this election, with a dozen of the big givers made up of self-funding candidates, according to an analysis of campaign...
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