New York: Police data shows excessive student arrests — especially for...
New York City police data released this month shows that officers arrested about five students per day last fall, and ticketed about nine. That’s excessive, and a sign that too many students,...
View ArticleFilthy surgical instruments: The hidden threat in America's operating rooms
It seemed simple enough at the time. In 2009, John Harrison, a 63–year-old oil industry sales manager in Mission, Texas, had surgery to repair the rotator cuff in his right shoulder, a routine...
View ArticleLure of lobbying still strong for House staffers
A new study finds that nearly 400 House staffers have moved from Capitol Hill to K Street in recent years, suggesting that recent efforts to curb the revolving door between lawmaking and lobbying are...
View ArticleRestore Our Future raises funds in lap of luxury
Every visitor to the glamorous Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard is “pampered like a celebrity,” according to its website. It can be “a place to see and be seen, to catch glimpses of famous...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Santorum exaggerates U.S. dropout rate
Rick Santorum incorrectly claimed that “one of three children drop out of school” in the United States. The 2009 dropout rate was 8.1 percent — slightly higher than it was in 2008, but down...
View ArticleLos Angeles ends big fines, limits police enforcement of truancy law
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to amend the city’s daytime-curfew ordinance and drop large monetary fines for truant students, in response to recent tensions over aggressive police...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Cloudy contraception costs
Is the Obama administration correct when it claims its contraception mandate will be “cost neutral” for insurance companies? Or are the critics right when they say Catholic institutions will pay a...
View ArticleANALYSIS: Health care myths and realities
Sarah Burke of Canada went airborne on her way to win the women's halfpipe freestyle title at the 2008 World Cup finals in Valmalenco, Italy. Burke died in a skiing accident while training in Jan....
View ArticleColo. judge issues new ruling in payday lending case against Indian tribes
Scott Tucker, right, underwrites his Level 5 Motorsports passion with profits from his payday lending businesses. Here, he is shown with drivers Luis Diaz, left, and Christophe Bouchut, center,...
View ArticleDrug lobby gave $9.4 million to nonprofits that spent big on 2010 election
The drug lobby's trade association was a multimillion-dollar donor to nonprofit groups that were actively working to elect federal candidates during the 2010 election, an iWatch News analysis of...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Santorum’s twisted take on JFK, religion
Rick Santorum misrepresented what John F. Kennedy said in 1960 about church-state separation. According to Santorum, Kennedy said that religious people could “have no role in the public square” and...
View ArticleTeen suspect in Ohio school shooting had violence in his early life
The suspect in Monday’s horrific Ohio school shooting has been variously described as a quiet loner who was bullied to a boy who actually seemed quite normal to classmates. So far, much of what’s out...
View ArticleLawrence Lessig on campaign finance reform: Overturning ‘Citizens United’...
In contrast with many other campaign finance reformers, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig believes fixing the U.S. election system will require more than just overturning the Citizens United v. Federal...
View ArticleCORRECTED: States pushing efforts to require certification for cleaning...
Correction, Feb. 29, 1:09pm: Due to incorrect information received from contributors to two bills before the New York State Assembly, the Center for Public Integrity inaccurately described a labor...
View ArticleL.A. kids' daytime curfew story on NPR's 'Morning Edition'
National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” has aired a version of the Center for Public Integrity look into aggressive ticketing of students in Los Angeles for violating a daytime curfew.
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Obama White House ‘full of Wall Street executives’?
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View ArticleLong-delayed diesel study published
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View ArticleFive things you need to know about coltan:
What is coltan used for? Where does it come from? How can it be tracked?
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That smart phone in your pocket contains a bit of coltan — a prized mineral that helps move electronic signals across ubiquitous microchips and controllers and allows devices to work well in extreme...
View ArticleVenezuela emerges as new source of ‘conflict’ minerals
Miners weigh the stones with their hands to recognize coltan. The mineral is almost black and weighs more than a regular stone. Emilia Diaz-Struck http://www.iwatchnews.org/authors/emilia-diaz-struck...
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