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Reporter talks to NPR about immigration laws
The Center's Susan Ferriss discusses her story, 'Separated by Law': Families torn apart by 1996 immigration law' on NPR's 'Talk of the Nation' Tuesday at 3 p.m. The story, reported in collaboration...
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Barack Obama accused of 'dark money' hypocrisy by non-disclosing nonprofit
Americans for Prosperity, the conservative nonprofit founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, is out with a new ad accusing President Barack Obama of "hypocrisy."The...
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The odd debts presidential candidates still owe
If President Barack Obama wants to better fund education, he might start by making good on the $13,515 his campaign owes Virginia State University, or pay the campaign's $5,575 bill to the public...
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Secret US detention program had many foreign collaborators
At least 54 countries aided the CIA in its sweeping post-9/11 program of secret detentions, renditions and interrogations of more than 136 terror suspects, according to a human rights group report...
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Chris Christie on hunt for D.C. campaign cash
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is heading to Washington, D.C., to score what could be hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars waiting for him at the palatial home of one of the nation's leading...
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Inspector General to review EPA's 'Watch Lists'
The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general has begun a review of the EPA’s use of internal watch lists to target enforcement of federal pollution laws. The watch lists first came to light...
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Super PAC patron Sheldon Adelson pours riches into pro-Israel groups
Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson isn't just interested in political giving.Since 2007, the casino mogul has given into the hundreds of millions of dollars to pro-Israel causes through a...
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Emails show Florida GOP may have defied constitutional amendment
Documents released this week appear to show that Florida legislative leaders worked with state Republican officials to manipulate redistricting efforts, in apparent defiance of a constitutional...
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Marco Rubio's leadership PAC offers VIP treatment at CPAC
Want VIP access for Sen. Marco Rubio's speech at this year's annual Conservative Political Action Conference?A new contest by Rubio's leadership PAC is offering one lucky winner the opportunity to fly...
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Interior secretary-nominee no stranger to D.C. political landscape
President Barack Obama today nominated Sally Jewell, the president and CEO of Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), to become the next interior secretary.During Jewell's last year with the...
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Deadline for summer internships fast-approaching
With just a little over a month until the deadline to apply for one of our summer internship spots, we wanted to talk about what it’s like to be an intern at the Center.Our interns are a pivotal part...
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OPINION: Disarming the ATF
Rob Tornoe, a political cartoonist based in Delaware, is now drawing original cartoons for The Center, based on our stories. You'll see his work pop up on publicintegrity.org, our Facebook page and on...
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Non-political nonprofit's spending spikes in election years
Pro-business powerhouse Americans for Job Security cannot, by federal law, make politics its primary purpose.But as contentious federal elections and state-level ballot initiatives raged during 2012,...
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Michele Bachmann uses liberal super PAC attack to raise funds
Correction (Feb. 8, 2013, 2:00 a.m.): The 2012 spending numbers from the Center for Responsive Politics that were originally cited in this story combined Bachmann's expenditures during both her...
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Did GOP congressman make illegal super PAC solicitation?
The six members of the U.S. House of Representative’s Office of Congressional Ethics found “there is substantial reason to believe” that Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., “violated federal law, House rules...
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Federal initiative to help schools recognize youth sex trafficking
Children involved in commercial sex trafficking are often recruited first by classmates at school who are doing the bidding of pimps, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other officials warned...
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Obama wants your immigration story — and personal data
Writing from a BarackObama.com email account, self-described "undocumented immigrant" Jose Magana last night shared his personal immigration story with the masses.Magana said he came to the United...
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Obama administration embraces major new nuclear weapons cut
Senior Obama administration officials have agreed that the number of nuclear warheads the U.S. military deploys could be cut by at least a third without harming national security, according to sources...
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Congress' youngest member forms leadership PAC
No matter that Rep. Patrick Murphy is the youngest member of Congress.The 29-year-old Florida Democrat has formed a leadership PAC — once primarily the domain of veteran congressmen but lately used by...
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Adelson takes exception with Center blog post
A "Primary Source" report from earlier this week from the Center for Public Integrity about Sheldon Adelson's charitable giving clearly touched a nerve with the casino magnate, the nation's top donor...
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