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Barack Obama's ambassador legacy: plum postings for big donors
President-elect Donald Trump has begun nominating the people who he wants to represent U.S. interests abroad.But even Trump, who despite his "draintheswamp" mantra has been rewarding major campaign...
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Medicare failed to recover up to $125 million in overpayments, records show
This story is a collaboration between Kaiser Health News and the Center for Public Integrity. Six years ago, federal health officials were confident they could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of...
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Cities to Trump, Clinton and Sanders: pay your police bills
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders may not remember much about the rallies they each held last year in Green Bay, Wisconsin.But officials at Green Bay City Hall sure do. And they’re...
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EPA wants to restrict sometimes-deadly paint stripper chemical
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to largely ban the use of a chemical in paint strippers that has killed dozens of people, asphyxiating some and triggering heart attacks in others.The...
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Military trainees at defense universities later committed serious human...
This article was co-published with the Daily Beast.The Defense Department trained at least 17 high-ranking foreigners at some of its top schools who were later convicted or accused of criminal and...
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A chat with our talented FOIA fighter
The Center for Public Integrity is proud to have been cited in a recent survey as among the news media leaders in its use of Freedom of Information Act litigation to obtain data from government...
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With morale in tatters, Federal Election Commission eyes changes
Federal Election Commission leaders — dogged by abysmal staff morale and a top manager improperly obtaining employees’ confidential critiques— are considering changes to how the agency operates in a...
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Trump's nominees face ethics, divestment challenges
A president-elect’s Cabinet choices provide an early and often-illuminating marker of where the new administration is headed in both tone and policy. The confirmation process is an enduring slice of...
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EPA works to remake troubled Office of Civil Rights
In the waning months of the Obama administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Civil Rights took modest steps toward repairing its tattered image.The office, which investigates...
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How ‘Joe the Plumber’ wants Donald Trump to drain the swamp
In 2008, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became a symbol of everyday, working Americans and earned the moniker “Joe the Plumber” after pointedly asking then-presidential candidate Barack Obama about his tax...
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Nonprofit tied to insurance, drug giants behind healthcare overhaul ads
If you thought Election Day marked the end of political ads clogging up your television and web browser, think again.Here come the issue ads.As a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and a freshly...
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Rare discrimination finding by EPA civil-rights office
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s civil-rights office has made a rare finding of discrimination, saying the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality treated African American residents of...
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Trump's immigration orders face legal and fiscal 'reality checks'
A barrage of legal and fiscal challenges is sure to dog two executive orders President Trump signed Wednesday that reflect his promises to build a “great wall” and attack cities sympathetic to...
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Trump likely to choose millionaire jurist for Supreme Court vacancy
All three of President Donald Trump’s likely nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court appear to be millionaires, just like the majority of their potential colleagues already on the nation’s highest court and...
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Meet the true source of those viral Donald Trump TV ads
Twitter is abuzz over a pro-President Donald Trump television advertisement that urges viewers to call a toll-free number and “pledge your support to defend Donald Trump.”“We need every Trump supporter...
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Donald Trump's inauguration fueled by tobacco, oil and drug company money
Big corporations with money riding on President Donald Trump’s policies helped pick up the tab for Trump’s inaugural festivities earlier this month, new disclosures show.The companies’...
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What's in Gorsuch's wallet, Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick
President Donald Trump named his pick for the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday night, tapping Judge Neil M. Gorsuch of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.If confirmed by the U.S. Senate,...
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Trump, Wall Street and the ‘banking caucus’ ready to rip apart Dodd-Frank
Feb. 1, 2017: This story has been clarified.Now that Donald Trump is president, the banking industry is well on its way to accomplishing what has been its top priority goal for years: upending...
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One simple way the Senate could embrace the internet in 2017
Will 2017 be the year the Senate fully embraces the digital revolution?Sure, senators use Twitter, Facebook and even Snapchat. But they’re strictly analogue when disclosing information about their...
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Get up, stand up: California’s search for education equity
Nobody told the students to remove their hoodies, or stash their snacks.Instead, a brief dose of hip-hop eased 10th-graders into their seats at Oakland High, a campus locked behind metal doors in this...
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