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AT&T, Verizon beat back limits on airwaves auction
The Federal Communications Commission handed Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. a victory Thursday when it agreed on a plan to auction valuable radio signals next year that will allow the...
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Foul air in heavily fracked Texas county has couple looking for a way out
KARNES COUNTY, Texas—After 23 years living on the South Texas prairie, Lynn and Shelby Buehring are looking for a new home, far from the fumes, traffic and noise of the Eagle Ford Shale boom.It will...
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Feds investigating allegations that Humana Inc. overcharged Medicare...
Giant health insurer Humana Inc. faces multiple federal investigations into allegations that it overbilled the government for treating elderly patients enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans, court...
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Center for Public Integrity's executive director stepping down
After eight years at the helm, Center for Public Integrity Executive Director Bill Buzenberg announced today that he will be stepping down from the nonprofit, investigative news organization at the end...
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Why running the Center has been my greatest honor
It has been my great honor and privilege to serve as executive director of The Center for Public Integrity for the past eight years. I informed the Board of Directors in February that I will step down...
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Tennessee Supreme Court declines to review case featured in Center report
The Tennessee State Supreme Court late last week denied a request to review the conviction of an accused truant jailed twice at 13, allegedly without first being informed of his right to appointment of...
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A different way of thinking about health care
A Charleston, South Carolina man who thought he had pretty good health insurance may miss work today, as he has several times already this year, because of a hernia. He’s in constant pain and needs...
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Singularity University disavows super PACs
Update, 10:12 p.m., May 20, 2014:Singularity University released a statement to the Center for Public Integrity this evening indicating that Randi Willis, the school's managing director for program...
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Who’s bankrolling secretive liberal group America Votes?
Even as topDemocratsdenounce Charles and David Koch’s political “dark money” organizations, party operatives have built a secretive nonprofit network of their own — albeit a much smaller one — to...
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Nearly $100 million in campaign cash sits idle
As Sen. Evan Bayh prepared to quit Congress, he called on all Americans to embrace a “spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest” and declared his “passion for service to...
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Forcing health insurers to do what's right
The first time I blew the whistle on health insurance companies was during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in June 2009. Last Wednesday, almost five years later, I appeared before that committee...
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Labor Department unveils rule to protect coal miners following Center...
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday that it plans to issue a new rule to address recent disclosures that lawyers representing coal companies have withheld medical evidence from miners in...
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Center sues in an effort to make Medicare Advantage files public
The Center for Public Integrity has sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, seeking a wide range of records concerning oversight of Medicare Advantage health insurance plans for senior...
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GOP challengers get boost from 'jumbo joint'
National Republicans have launched another jumbo joint fundraising committee in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ruling— this one with the goal of aiding...
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Judge who stopped Wisconsin campaign finance probe tied to Koch-funded junkets
The federal judge who ordered an end to an investigation into possible illegal campaign coordination between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and conservative groups during two recent recall elections...
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Comcast-Time Warner deal may hinge on anemic low-cost Internet plan
As Comcast Corp. tries to convince the federal government to permit it to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for $45 billion, opponents of the deal will inevitably bring up people like Ed.Every morning at...
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Texas fracking verdict puts industry on notice about toxic air emissions
Between February 2010 and July 2011, Lisa and Bob Parr filed 13 complaints about air pollution from gas and oil operations near their ranch in Wise County, Texas. Sometimes they had trouble breathing,...
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Evan Bayh's multi-million-dollar head start?
If former Sen. Evan Bayh again runs for governor in Indiana — there's speculation he'll seek his old post, although Bayh is mum on the matter— he'd likely have a multi-million-dollar fundraising head...
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Ready for Hillary no longer just a super PAC
Ready for Hillary is now primed to pump Democratic congressional candidates full of cash.The pro-Clinton super PAC today filed paperwork to convert itself into a hybrid PAC. This relatively new type of...
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'Radical animal rights movement' gets new foe
An Iowa-based organization dedicated to combating“the radical animal rights movement” and led by a former Missouri Republican senator’s chief of staff has launched a new super PAC, according to...
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