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Compensation program for sick nuclear workers plagued by problems, ombudsman...
People who fell ill after working in the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex continued to struggle with a federal compensation program beset by confusing rules and incomplete records, according to the latest...
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Proposed Georgia budget shifts money to community programs for juveniles
This story was reported by Sarah Barr for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.JONESBORO, Georgia — Leandra Phommavongsay began his speech to the dozen or so teenagers gathered in the back of a...
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South Carolina collaboration wins state press association award
A joint investigation of lawmakers’ finances by the Center for Public Integrity and The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C. has won the South Carolina Press Association prize for investigative...
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Bio-threat protections inadequate
Despite the Obama administration’s repeated warnings about the menace of a widespread contagion within the United States, both lawmakers and independent experts are continuing to give low marks to...
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Sanders, Clinton want campaign finance overhaul, but face huge obstacles
March 24, 2016: This story has been clarified.Campaign finance reform has become a major issue in the presidential race — at least on the Democratic side — but even if Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders...
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Forty-two years later, OSHA OKs rule protecting workers from silica
New workplace limits for a lung-damaging and ubiquitous substance called silica are about to take effect, decades after federal health experts warned that the nation’s existing rule was dangerously...
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Report: Brussels suicide bombers sought radioactive materials
The two brothers who detonated suicide bombs at an airport and subway station in Brussels this week, killing at least 31 and injuring hundreds more, had spied on a senior Belgian nuclear official in...
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E-cigarette laws written with the help of Reynolds American
Tobacco companies have won legislative language in at least 19 states that protects e-cigarettes from tobacco control programs and cigarette taxes. At least 11 of those pull nearly verbatim from...
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How Big Tobacco lobbies to safeguard e-cigarettes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the Golden State, home to healthy living, progressive politics and one of the lowest smoking rates in the nation, cigarettes can seem like a relic of the past, barred long ago...
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Super PACs built a wall around Florida, and Trump destroyed it
A coalition of outside groups paid for more than 4,300 anti-Donald Trump ads during the week before Tuesday’s primary election in Florida — all to no avail as the real estate mogul sailed to an easy...
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You could buy an Australian island for what the Pentagon says it would cost...
The Pentagon dashed any hopes that it might soon be able to pass a simple audit, when it provided a surprisingly unhelpful response late last month to a simple question about how many widgets of a...
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Tobacco giant gave $250,000 to group representing black-owned newspapers
After National Newspaper Publishers Association President Benjamin Chavis Jr. visited Reynolds American’s headquarters in Winston-Salem, N.C., he left impressed — and with hopes of big money from the...
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Feeding the political beast
Politics and particularly money-in-politics is the meat and drink of the Center for Public Integrity. It’s where we do much of our long-term coverage and also where journalists like federal politics...
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Center wins SABEW Award for Mobile Home Reporting
A series exposing the exorbitant fees and sky-high interest rates of a mobile-home empire has earned the Center a “Best in Business” prize from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers...
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Catching a political phantom
This is the story of a phantom who sponsored a political attack ad in the heat of Florida’s critical presidential primary and sidestepped federal transparency laws.It begins with a single TV spot— one...
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Latest numbers to know about the 2016 presidential race
Presidential candidates and their supportive super PACs generally entered March one of two ways: flush with energy and cash or destined for Election 2016 footnote status.A new round of federal campaign...
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Megadonors stricken with presidential fatigue?
Donald Trump-fueled tumult in the Republican presidential race is prompting some major donors to abandon the field for now and instead funnel resources into downballot races.Some key political groups...
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Compensation program for sick nuclear workers plagued by problems, ombudsman...
People who fell ill after working in the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex continued to struggle with a federal compensation program beset by confusing rules and incomplete records, according to the latest...
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Proposed Georgia budget shifts money to community programs for juveniles
This story was reported by Sarah Barr for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.JONESBORO, Georgia — Leandra Phommavongsay began his speech to the dozen or so teenagers gathered in the back of a...
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South Carolina collaboration wins state press association award
A joint investigation of lawmakers’ finances by the Center for Public Integrity and The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C. has won the South Carolina Press Association prize for investigative...
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