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GOP chair of nuclear safety agency secretly urges Trump to abolish it
The chairman of a panel charged with protecting workers at nuclear weapons facilities as well as nearby communities has told the White House he favors downsizing or abolishing the group, despite recent...
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Five Center for Public Integrity projects honored with EPPY awards
Five separate Center for Public Integrity projects covering a disparate array of subjects in the news have been honored with EPPY Awards from Editor & Publisher, it was announced Wednesday.The five...
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Scofflaw politicos ignore federal fines — with few consequences
In July 2016, the Federal Election Commission slapped the 60 Plus Association with a $50,000 fine, charging that it hadn’t revealed its donors as legally obliged.The penalty — along with fines assessed...
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'The fear of dying' pervades Southern California's oil-polluted enclaves
LOS ANGELES – In their worst moments, the victims’ faces are blue. Their skin is cool and damp to the touch. They are starving for oxygen. Pedora Keo, a critical-care nurse, sees them with distressing...
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Big power plant ignites political fight in small Pennsylvania town
This story was produced in collaboration with StateImpact Pennsylvania.JESSUP, Pa.—The biggest new natural-gas power plant in a state awash with them is taking shape on a mountain ridge overlooking the...
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Surge of women run for office in first major races since Trump's win
Nov. 6, 2017: This story has been corrected.The most women candidates in at least a decade are on Tuesday’s ballot in Virginia and New Jersey — what may be the first glimpse of new political activism...
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Thousands of immigrants with ‘protected status’ face possible deportation
Update, 11:07 a.m., Nov. 7, 2017: Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke announced late Monday, Nov. 6, that more than 5,300 Nicaraguan immigrants living and working legally in the United...
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Intern with the Center for Public Integrity and learn investigative journalism
The Center for Public Integrity is pleased to offer paid summer internships in Washington, D.C., to train the next generation of investigative journalists.Sometimes the application process can be...
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross sells shipping investment
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has divested his interest in Diamond S Shipping Group Inc., one of the world’s largest owners and operators of medium-range tanker vessels and the subject of a Center for...
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A behind-the-scenes look at Scott Pruitt's dysfunctional EPA
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt doesn’t hide his contempt for how the agency has been run, but does profess to care about one of its key programs: Superfund, which oversees...
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Energy undersecretary wants nuclear safety reports hidden from public
The head of the federal agency that produces U.S. nuclear weapons has privately proposed to end public access to key safety reports from a federal watchdog group that monitors ten sites involved in...
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Can Trump single-handedly order a nuclear attack on North Korea?
Could the United States launch a nuclear attack on North Korea, even before it is attacked? And could President Donald Trump order such an attack on his own?These once improbable questions have been...
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A modern history of campaign finance: from Watergate to 'Citizens United'
A legal war has been waged since the campaign finance reforms that followed the Watergate scandals, when Congress passed the bedrock for our modern money-in-politics regulatory regime. And while...
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The players who have shaped campaign finance over the decades
Laws have shaped how money affects politics in the modern era, but it is the courts that have really had the final say. Compiled below are some of the most important organizations and people who have...
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How slamming campaign finance laws helped Greg Gianforte get elected
In May, on the eve of Greg Gianforte’s special congressional election, the Montana politician “body-slammed” inquiring news reporter Ben Jacobs and began “punching” him, according to Jacobs and other...
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Kochs key among small group quietly funding legal assault on campaign finance...
Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are well-known for pumping tens of millions of dollars into so-called “dark money” nonprofits — groups that actively promote or criticize candidates...
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Join us Friday for a Facebook Live chat about campaign finance regulation
The Center for Public Integrity will be hosting a Facebook Live chat on Friday, November 17 at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST with reporters Dave Levinthal and Lateshia Beachum to discuss their latest stories...
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A former Panama agent is guiding Trump's Homeland Security pick
A private consultant shepherding President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security secretary nominee Kirstjen Nielsen through her U.S. Senate confirmation process has also lobbied the homeland...
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How we investigated conflicted interests in statehouses across the country
The stories you’re reading today are the result of months of dogged reporting. At their heart lie thousands of personal financial disclosure statements filed by state legislators.Getting all of these...
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