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Q&A: What we learned from digging into state legislators' disclosure forms
The Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press analyzed financial disclosure reports from 6,933 state legislators around the country and found that three out of four lawmakers had income from...
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Conflicted Interests: State lawmakers often blur the line between the...
A recent change in Iowa’s tax code spared Mark Chelgren’s machine shop, welding company and wheelchair-parts plant from paying sales tax when buying certain supplies such as saws and cutting fluid.The...
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Steve Bannon officially discloses source of $2 million in personal debt
Former White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon has disclosed the source of $2 million in debt, which he previously failed to report, on a revised government document released Tuesday.The...
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Watchdog demands Federal Election Commission crack down on fine-dodging...
Conservative nonprofit 60 Plus Association is violating federal law by “willfully” refusing to pay a fine for previous election season transgressions, a nonpartisan watchdog alleges in a new complaint...
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Deadly bugs on the loose: Federal monitors scramble to keep track of...
On Friday the 13th of June 2014, a scientist in a bioterrorism research laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta noticed something unsettling. An unexpected growth...
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New York’s heralded fracking ban isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
This story was produced in collaboration with StateImpact Pennsylvania.7:42 p.m.: This story has been updated to add that a stay on a Millenium Valley pipeline was lifted by a federal court on Dec. 7,...
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Mystery money floods Alabama in Senate race's final days
A last-minute infusion of cash is deluging the already unpredictable special Senate election in Alabama, and outside political groups backing both candidates — Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug...
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Conflicted Interests: Stories from the states
The Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press analyzed financial disclosure reports from 6,933 state legislators nationwide and unearthed numerous examples of lawmakers who have introduced...
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Political committees 101
A veritable smorgasbord of organizations engage in political activities, and it can be tough to keep them straight. Here’s a menu detailing the differences among them:Candidate committees— Anyone...
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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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Sunshine State lags on solar power, doubles down on natural gas
VERO BEACH, Fla.—The irony is rich. The Sunshine State taps the sun for less than half a percent of its electricity while making two-thirds with natural gas — a fuel that Florida must pipe in from...
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Liberals and conservatives agree: Ex-congressmen should put brakes on...
A majority of potential voters — both liberal and conservative — back proposed legislation that would force former congressmen and congressional aides to wait longer before cashing in their government...
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The United States of Petroleum
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Political committees 101
A veritable smorgasbord of organizations engage in political activities, and it can be tough to keep them straight. Here’s a menu detailing the differences among them:Candidate committees— Anyone...
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Charities employ controversial telemarketers to tug on heartstrings — and...
MONTVILLE, N.J. — Homeless veterans. Breast cancer survivors. Disabled police officers. Children with leukemia.In the name of helping these people and others like them, a private telemarketing company...
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Veterans charity raises millions to help those who’ve served. But...
The warning was prophetic.Maurice Levite sat in a modest office in Falls Church, Virginia, about a decade ago, and cautioned his longtime friend, Brian Arthur Hampton, against continuing to use...
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Join us for a Twitter chat on the United States of Petroleum: The...
The American Petroleum Institute was born in a ballroom at New York’s Biltmore Hotel at the end of World War I. Among its founding members were the same regulators entrusted to oversee the industry....
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Death by suffocation under a pile of dirt: Jim Spencer's on-the-job death...
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New hope, new problem: Will Federal Election Commission shut down?
Caroline Hunter and Ellen Weintraub share a relationship that’s sometimes icy, occasionally testy and rarely dull. Their public disagreements as Federal Election Commission commissioners have spanned a...
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Is Congress expanding credit for the poor or enabling high-interest lenders?
Ken Rees has made a fortune selling loans with triple-digit interest rates to borrowers with poor credit history or no credit history.Over the years, he’s developed a knack for finding loopholes in...
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