Human rights commission in India opens official probe into excessive...
A government commission that monitors and enforces human rights in India has opened a probe into allegations reported by the Center for Public Integrity that villagers living near government-run...
View ArticleIndia’s nuclear explosive materials are vulnerable to theft, U.S. officials...
Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, INDIA — On October 8, 2014, Head Constable Vijay Singh awoke before dawn and scurried across the ochre gravel outside the constabulary barracks here at the Madras Atomic Power...
View ArticleUpended by America’s ‘third wave’ of asbestos disease
Penny is 39 years old. He lives in Clermont, Florida, and has four children. Until September 25, 2014, life was treating him well. His flooring company had just secured its first big contract.That...
View ArticleU.S. lobbying, PR firms give human rights abusers a friendly face
After growing up in a country with limited freedoms and an oppressive government, Tutu Alicante still wasn’t prepared when he heard about a violent clash between the military and young men who had...
View ArticleNew FEC chairman aims to calm agency at war with itself
The Federal Election Commission, a government agency tasked with policing what’s expected to be the nation’s most expensive election ever, will drag itself into the new year perhaps more internally...
View ArticleSome Medicare Advantage plans overcharged the government by billions of...
Despite facing mounting evidence they were overpaying some Medicare health plans by tens of millions of dollars a year, federal officials dialed back efforts to recover as much of the money as...
View ArticleSteel mill that never was 'casts a shadow' on EPA Office of Civil Rights
In December 1997, a company called Select Steel moved to enter the then-bustling economy of Flint, Michigan.It applied for an air permit with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, seeking...
View ArticleEnvironmental award for Center reporting, impact
Award for "Big Oil: Bad Air"On the awards front, the Environment team led by Jim Morris, scored big with the Knight-Risser Award for Western Environmental Journalism awarded by Stanford University. The...
View ArticleCommentary: A view of the future for "quality journalism"
[This is an edited version of speech given by Center for Public Integrity CEO Peter Bale to an audience at ORF, the Austrian state broadcaster in Vienna last month, as part of a panel for the Alpbach...
View ArticleTwo new board members join Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity is pleased to welcome two prominent new members to its Board of Directors.Elspeth Revere boasts of a long career in philanthropy, which includes her distinguished tenure...
View ArticleShattered victims of 'La Bestia' seek help for their desperate countrymen
In the northern Honduran town of El Progreso, 53 men and women belong to an exclusive but undesirable club: the Association of Migrants Returned with Disabilities. Each attempted to reach the United...
View ArticleTea party groups see win in end-of-year omnibus bill
Two-and-a-half years after the Internal Revenue Service apologized for using "inappropriate criteria" to scrutinize tea party-aligned nonprofits applying for tax-exempt status, President Barack Obama...
View ArticleVirginia officials deny Center access to reports from auto-title lenders
Despite saying they have no legal basis to do so, Virginia state officials have denied the Center for Public Integrity immediate access to annual corporate reports filed with the state by the nation’s...
View ArticleSuper PAC fetishist strikes again
A Florida man has so far this month created more than 350 political groups — including hundreds of federal super PACs that claim to represent interests ranging from racquetball to the petroleum...
View ArticleCommentary: The unseen toll of workplace disease in America
Guns take more than 30,000 lives in America each year.But there’s a less-visible, even deadlier scourge that’s been mostly lost in an era of mass shootings and terrorism scares: work-related illness,...
View Article2015: A strange year in investigative journalism
Things have always been weird in Washington. But 2015 provided more than a few "huh?" moments for even the most insider of Washington insiders.Here are some things from 2015 we didn’t see coming.The...
View ArticleThe Center for Public Integrity's year in impact
For many years now, the Center for Public Integrity's mission has been to "serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private...
View ArticleElection 2016 by the numbers
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View ArticleThe Center for Public Integrity's year in video
Center for Public Integrity investigations wouldn’t be complete without the work of multimedia editor Eleanor Bell and environmental reporter Maryam Jameel.This past year brought an especially rich...
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