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Center spins off international arm
The Center for Public Integrity officially announced the spinoff of The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) today. “We’re intensely proud of the success of the consortium and...
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Trump pick for Air Force boss frustrated auditors with lucrative, murky...
A federal inspector contacted the Energy Department fraud hotline a few years back to flag irregularities in contracts that several nuclear weapons laboratories had signed with a former New Mexico...
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Senate votes to kill Obama contractor rule
The Senate voted Monday to kill an Obama administration rule aimed at curbing labor violations among government contractors. Two years in the making, the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule was targeted...
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Panama Papers probe wins a Scripps Howard award
The Panama Papers investigation has this week received its fourth major American journalism prize, the William Brewster Styles Award for Business/Economics Reporting from the Scripps Howard...
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FEC earning congressional attention — for the wrong reasons
The Federal Election Commission — an agency of clashing commissioners, seething staffers and key vacancies — may soon face congressmen who wonder: Why’s the agency a basket case?Such a trip under...
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Documents: Office of Government Ethics, Trump team reached détente
After a monumentally messy start to their relationship, Donald Trump’s incoming presidential administration has reached a détente — more or less — with an independent government agency in charge of...
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Trump budget: an extra billion dollars for nuclear weapons
President Donald Trump has proposed to boost federal spending on the production of nuclear weapons by more than $1 billion in 2018 while slashing or eliminating spending on many federal programs...
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Powerful South Carolina political consultant implicated in indictments of a...
March 17, 2017: This story has been updated.A powerful South Carolina political consultant featured in a Center for Public Integrity/Post and Courier investigation is implicated in indictments accusing...
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Five Center for Public Integrity projects garner awards in journalism contests
Center for Public Integrity investigations involving the opioid crisis, state insurance commissioners, South Sudan, broadband access and offshore corporations have been honored in recent days by...
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Center for Public Integrity staff featured on national TV, radio
This month, Center for Public Integrity reporters and editors have been in high demand by television and radio networks who want their insight and expertise.CEO John Dunbar spoke with "Full Measure"...
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Wilbur Ross will shepherd Trump’s trade policy. Should he also own a shipping...
When private equity billionaire Wilbur Ross Jr. signed on to be President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, he agreed to divest millions of dollars in assets.But one asset Ross plans to keep is his...
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The public favors cutting defense spending, not adding billions more, new...
President Trump’s proposed budget for 2018 isn’t following public sentiment, a new survey finds.The survey, by the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC), found that while Trump...
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Center for Public Integrity awarded $3 million grant
The Democracy Fund and First Look Media are today announcing a major infusion of new funding for the Center for Public Integrity, a $3 million general operating grant that will support the Center’s...
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Justice Department joins suit alleging massive Medicare fraud by UnitedHealth
This story is a collaboration between Kaiser Health News and the Center for Public Integrity. The Justice Department has joined a California whistleblower’s lawsuit that accuses insurance giant...
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Democratic senator investigates drugmakers' role in opioid epidemic
A leading Democratic senator is investigating the nation’s top opioid manufacturers to determine whether they contributed to overuse of the painkillers at the center of a deadly addiction crisis that...
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Ethics watchdogs: Why won't Trump’s pick for Air Force secretary account for...
Independent ethics watchdogs urged members of Congress this week to probe why President Trump’s Air Force secretary nominee, former Rep. Heather Wilson, was paid by nuclear weapon contractors to do...
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Trump's Air Force nominee: no need to detail her work under nuclear lab...
President Trump’s Air Force Secretary nominee, Heather Wilson, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 30 that she had consulted honorably for four U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories years...
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James O'Keefe III: political committee created in his name is 'fraudulent'
James O’Keefe III, a conservative activist known for using false identities to produce undercover videos targeting liberals, says someone is fraudulently using his name to create a political action...
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Help the Center for Public Integrity win a Webby Award
Great news for our investigative journalism: The Webby Awards today named the Center for Public Integrity a finalist for best political news blog or website in the nation.The Webby Awards presents two...
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New database details White House officials' finances
On Friday night, the White House began releasing financial disclosures for scores of key employees — including familiar names such as Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Counselor to the President Kellyanne...
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