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Auditors: feds failed to rein in billions in over-billing by Medicare Advantage
Private Medicare Advantage plans treating the elderly have over-billed the government by billions of dollars, but rarely been forced to repay the money or face other consequences for their actions,...
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How the Center for Public Integrity measured Internet inequality
To conduct its analysis, the Center for Public Integrity combined these data sets:The Federal Communication Commission’s Form 477 Broadband Deployment Data, as of June 30, 2015, the latest...
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Rich people have access to high-speed Internet; many poor people still don't
May 12, 2016: This story has been corrected.GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Virginia — Ever since Curtis Brown Jr. got his first Star Wars toy as a toddler, he has been fascinated by action figures. So much so that...
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News media give free ride to anti-Donald Trump video
Eerie sounds. Thudding piano notes. Rapid-fire clips of Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about women.This minute-long takedown looks like a political ad. It sounds like a political ad. But...
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Court decision gives EPA latitude to decide length of civil rights...
The length of a civil rights investigation — even one lasting a decade or more — is up to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s discretion, no matter how “lamentable” the delay may be, a U.S....
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EPA discretion on settled civil rights case not subject to review, court rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has the discretion to decide the scope of a civil rights investigation and whether to broker a settlement, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.In a...
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Caymans, Bermuda lash out at U.S. 'hypocrisy’ during anti-corruption summit
U.S. states Nevada, Wyoming and Delaware are facing growing pressure to address their lack of corporate transparency, as the United States and the international community continue to respond to fallout...
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Death threats directed at elections regulator
In October 2014, then-Federal Election Commission Vice Chairwoman Ann Ravel did what she often does: speak her mind about political campaign issues.“A re-examination of the Commission's approach to the...
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Pro-Ted Cruz super PACs mull options for their millions
A tangle of super PACs that supported U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential bid still have more than $20 million in the bank — and must now decide whether to back Donald Trump, close shop or play politics...
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Inequality drives our journalism
Inequality is an underlying issue in much of what we cover, whether it is the contribution tax avoidance makes to global inequality uncovered by the Panama Papers or the growing erosion of the middle...
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Center for Public Integrity awarded $2M grant
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced a $2 million general-operating grant to The Center for Public Integrity to support the Center’s groundbreaking investigative reporting...
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'Dark money,' billionaires behind anti-Donald Trump ad barrage
Pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA Action is going after presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in a new ad— and using his own words to do it.The ad features several women — and two men...
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States caught in tug of war over whether cops can keep your stuff
May 19, 2016: This story has been updated.Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday became the latest state leader to sign contentious legislation restricting civil asset forfeiture — the process that...
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Scientists say nuclear fuel pools around the country pose safety and health...
Ninety-six aboveground, aquamarine pools around the country that hold the nuclear industry’s spent reactor fuel may not be as safe as U.S. regulators and the nuclear industry have publicly asserted, a...
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Presidential race blows past $1 billion mark — and other numbers to know
During April, White House hopefuls, their supportive super PACs and other political committees raced past the $1 billion mark achieved in March, adding another $150 million or so to already historic...
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Meet the people who have donated to both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have precious little in common.But the two all-but-certain presidential nominees do share this: at least three-dozen campaign contributors who gave...
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Libertarian presidential hopeful’s spending on consultants draws ire
More than 70 cents of every dollar Libertarian Gary Johnson— a man who could play spoiler in battleground states in November — has spent so far in his 2016 presidential bid has gone to the consulting...
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Mystery donors pumped millions into liberal ‘dark money’ group
A liberal "dark money" group that leads national and state-based Democratic coalitions and dubs itself the “hub of the progressive community” raised $13.4 million in its most recent fiscal year,...
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Commentary: Update of Toxic Substances Control Act a worthy step that's long...
In a groundbreaking report six years ago, a National Cancer Institute panel warned that it was time to pay closer attention to environmental causes of a disease that takes more than a half-million...
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The costly truth of emergency spending in Iraq and Afghanistan
Eight years ago, when America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were still raging at full force, the Pentagon’s annual budget for those conflicts amounted to $1 million for each troop who was actually...
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