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Trump skewers new super PAC
A new super PAC is offering one lucky winner a huge opportunity: the chance to dine with Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.“The flight, food and stay are on us,” declares Recover America...
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Toxic air emissions series wins sixth national journalism award
“Big Oil, Bad Air”, an investigation of toxic air emissions in Texas shale fields by the Center for Public Integrity, InsideClimate News and the Weather Channel, has won the Knight-Risser Prize for...
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Anti-Trump ad fueled by pro-Bush millionaires
Hours after presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday called for the “complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States, a super PAC supporting fellow candidate Jeb Bush had harsh words for...
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Title lenders fight to keep records secret
Three major auto-title lenders have filed legal petitions to block Virginia state officials from releasing company annual reports to the Center for Public Integrity, arguing that doing so would...
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Lawmakers protect title loan firms while borrowers pay sky-high interest rates
After years of financial ups and downs, Gloria Whitaker needed some quick cash to help keep a roof over her head.So she and her son, Devon, went to a TitleBucks store in Las Vegas and took out a $2,000...
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Financial titans behind Hillary Clinton slam
Hedge fund managers and investors, together worth billions of dollars, are bankrolling a little-known super PAC that on Tuesday unleashed attack ads against Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary...
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One cop's telling tale: Who will police the school police?
In 2013, a former police trainee was called to testify about an allegation that a sworn officer had assaulted her in 2006 while she was learning the ropes at the Fontana Police Department in Southern...
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An epidemic of questionable arrests by school police
Editors' note: This story was reported in collaboration with The California Report, a production of KQED Public Radio.SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.— Josue “Josh” Muniz admits that he embraced his girlfriend...
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Campaign finance reform measure: 'a solution in search of a problem'?
You probably don’t give much thought to the three-digit code on the back of your credit card. But a small, bipartisan group of lawmakers thinks political campaigns should be paying a lot more attention...
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Ailing, angry nuclear-weapons workers fight for compensation
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Paul Brogdon was a security guard at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant during the last stages of the Cold War, protecting stockpiles of bomb-grade uranium from would-be...
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Former New York Senate leader and son convicted on corruption charges
Friday was another bad day for Albany’s tarnished image, as former state Senate leader Dean G. Skelos and his son were convicted on a suite of corruption charges. The verdict came just two weeks after...
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Side benefit of climate accord: Better health in polluted communities
Saturday’s 196-nation climate pact is aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, whose effects on the planet already are being seen. Another beneficiary, however, will be public health.If, in fact, the...
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Inside Ben Carson's small-dollar fundraising machine
CONCORD, N.H. — George Anderson woke at 6:30 a.m., drove two-and-a-half hours south from his home in the White Mountains to New Hampshire’s granite-block statehouse, squeezed into a crowded corridor...
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India’s nuclear industry pours its wastes into a river of death and disease
Jadugoda, Jharkhand, INDIA— The Subarnarekha River roars out of the Chota Nagpur plateau in eastern India, before emptying 245 miles downstream into the Bay of Bengal, making it a vital source of life,...
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Koch brothers supersize higher-ed spending
The Koch brothers are supersizing their already hefty investments into college students’ hearts and minds.A pair of private foundations led by the billionaire industrialists poured more than $23.4...
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India's nuclear solution to global warming is generating huge domestic protests
Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, INDIA — In a town riven by blackouts every summer, the startup in December of commercial operations for a multi-billion-dollar, Russian-built nuclear reactor near here would...
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Marco Rubio: The force awakens?
Ahead of tonight’s critical Republican presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has primed himself by becoming an ascendant media messaging force.Rubio and his super PAC allies aired more than...
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Experts worry that India is creating new fuel for an arsenal of H-bombs
Challakere, India— When laborers began excavating protected pastureland in India’s southern Karanataka state in 2012, members of the nomadic Lambani tribe were startled. For centuries, the...
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State Integrity Investigation brings calls for reform as legislative sessions...
As the kickoff of state legislative sessions approaches in January, the State Integrity Investigation is yielding calls for change from lawmakers, good-government advocates and editorial boards across...
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Conservative groups helped gut Wisconsin election laws
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed into law on Wednesday measures that transform campaign finance rules and a government accountability board — two bills pushed by the very same conservative political...
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