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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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Dying depositions
Grainy video shot last August shows 75-year-old Nader Kordestani lying in a padded recliner at his home in Calabasas, California, near Los Angeles. Off camera, a defense lawyer asks him if it’s true...
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Length of depositions not widely regulated
How long is too long when it comes to depositions? The answer depends on where the case is being heard and which side you’re on.While federal courts limit depositions to seven hours, most states have...
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Nuclear Security: A vital goal but a distant prospect
President Obama set a high foreign policy bar five months after his election by describing nuclear terrorism as “the most immediate and extreme threat to global security,” and by promising to lead an...
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Senators seek better conflict disclosures for scientific articles
Citing the Center for Public Integrity’s recent “Science for Sale” series, a group of U.S. senators has asked the National Institutes of Health to make it easier to tell who funds research published in...
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Defense contractor employees give the most money to Hillary Clinton
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has collected more than any other candidate in the 2016 race from employees tied to the 50 largest contractors with the U.S. Department of Defense —...
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Virginia officials keep title-loan records private
A ruling issued Thursday by the Virginia State Corporation Commission will allow Virginia officials to keep annual business reports filed by auto-title loan companies under wraps, marking a major...
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Obama's nuclear security summits end with unfinished work
The Islamic State’s brazen terrorist attacks in Paris last November and its follow-up attacks in Brussels last month cast a shadow over a summit of world leaders in Washington, D.C., about tightening...
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Massive leak reveals offshore accounts of world leaders
An investigation published today by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its media partners reveals the hidden workings of a secretive industry that banks and lawyers use to...
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Offshore law firm runs into trouble in Las Vegas
Mossack Fonseca & Co. had a problem in Vegas.Legal papers filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas claimed that the Panama-based law firm had created 123 companies in Nevada that had been used by...
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Law firm’s files include dozens of companies and people blacklisted by U.S....
One morning in mid-2014, before the summer sun had reached its peak, two elderly men in Aleppo, Syria, sat on plastic chairs, chatting quietly and drinking black coffee. From his perch outside his food...
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Center unit, the ICIJ, releases Panama Papers
WASHINGTON, DC, April 3, 2016 – After a yearlong investigation into a massive leaked cache of 11.5 million financial records, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists today is exposing...
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BULLETIN - CPI's ICIJ unit has huge impact with Panama Papers
Network effects (where services become more valuable the more people use them) are some of the most powerful factors in technology and no more so in the case of the Panama Papers, the huge...
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White House and U.S. officials react cautiously to Panama Papers
Correction, April 5, 2016: This article has been corrected.Update, April 5, 2016, 1:45 p.m.: This article has been updated to include a response from the Justice Department.Update, April 5, 2016, 5:28...
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Bernie Sanders hopes ad blast will win Wisconsin
Hoping to squeeze out a win, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign aired more than 5,700 TV ads in the two weeks ahead of Tuesday’s Wisconsin presidential primary — more than a third of the nearly 16,000 TV...
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