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Mossack Fonseca's U.S. operations cut back after Nevada penalty
Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca’s local affiliate in Nevada has resigned from more than 1,000 companies and paid a penalty to the state, while the law firm has also announced the closure of three...
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A former senior U.S. general again calls for abolishing the nuclear forces he...
President Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on Friday—in a symbolic effort to close some very old wounds from America’s first nuclear detonation. In a much-anticipated...
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'Dark money': a pro-veteran nonprofit's political weapon
Vote Vets Action Fund, a liberal “dark money” nonprofit that’s raised millions to ostensibly advance pro-veteran causes, is prohibited from engaging in politics as its “primary purpose.”But the group...
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Billionaire environmentalist behind anti-Donald Trump immigration ads
A billionaire environmentalist is spending big money in California to skewer presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump— the latest volley in a barrage of anti-Trump advertising that has saturated TV...
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Regulators to crack down on payday and auto-title lenders
Arguing payday and auto-title loans trap borrowers in a “cycle of debt,” federal officials today proposed new restrictions to clamp down on the thriving lending industry.The Consumer Financial...
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Panama Papers fallout, free speech
Fallout from the Panama Papers reverberates around the world from Brazilian politicians found to have used New Zealand trusts, to the U.S offices of the law firm at the center of the world’s largest...
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Defiant Bernie Sanders pours remaining cash into last-ditch ad blitz
Bernie Sanders left it all in California.Even with rival Hillary Clinton on the precipice of securing the Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders burned through $2.2 million on advertising ahead of...
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Center for Public Integrity alum wins Livingston Award
Former Center for Public Integrity reporter Daniel Wagner won the prestigious Livingston Award for reporting on the predatory practices of Warren Buffett's mobile-home empire, it was announced...
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Anti-Hillary Clinton super PAC backed by investment mogul, 'ethical vegan'
Although Sen. Rand Paul ended his presidential bid four months ago, a pro-Paul super PAC sounds particularly presidential in a new TV ad — this time, in slamming likely Democratic nominee Hillary...
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Two Center projects win Kaleidoscope Awards for diversity coverage
Two 2015 Center for Public Integrity investigations are co-winners of the Radio Television Digital News Association’s Kaleidoscope Award, which honors “journalistic excellence in covering issues of...
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Center wins awards from Society of Professional Journalists’ D.C. chapter
The Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists won seven journalism awards on Tuesday night from the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Society of...
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Network neutrality decision likely won't go to Supreme Court
It is unlikely that Tuesday’s ruling upholding network neutrality regulations will see a Supreme Court review, leaving advocates of an open internet with a historic victory say legal experts on both...
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South Carolina Legislature passes ethics reform
COLUMBIA — After a slow, four-year march toward ethics reform, the South Carolina General Assembly late Wednesday adopted two bills requiring lawmakers to disclose sources of independent income and...
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Donald Trump's big money bait-and-switch
When it comes to raising money, Donald Trump is morphing into the very kind of bootlicking presidential candidate he’s insisted — over and again — that he wasn’t, isn’t and wouldn’t become.On one hand,...
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Hot mess: states struggle to deal with radioactive fracking waste
This story was produced in collaboration with the Ohio Valley ReSource, a public media partnership covering Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.The Marcellus Shale has transformed the Appalachian Basin...
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Hillary Clinton crushing Donald Trump in White House cash dash
Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is making Republican Donald Trump— a man who can’t stop bragging about his billions — look like a political pauper.Clinton’s campaign, along with a...
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The next ‘Citizens United’ is coming
Most Americans last heard from conservative lawyer James Bopp six years ago when he crafted a case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that won the Supreme Court’s favor and helped uncork...
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Majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices are millionaires
At least six— and perhaps as many as all eight — U.S. Supreme Court justices are worth at least $1 million, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of new financial disclosures.Topping the...
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'It just ruined everything — the whole life'
AVELLA, Pa. — Sixty years after his service in the Army, Jesse Eakin still completes his outfits with a pin that bears a lesson from the Korean War: Never Impossible.That maxim has been tested by a...
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Car dealer-congressman subject of ethics probe
The House Ethics Committee has revealed it is investigating the conduct of U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, a Weatherford car dealer who authored an amendment that would have exempted his industry...
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