A senior official at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has received millions of dollars in payments from companies that are involved in medical research. His omissions expose how weakly conflict-of-interest rules are enforced by journals. | Read more|
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Notes released by a federal agency indicate that one of the hospital’s top heart transplant doctors spoke about “a retiring surgeon” who “wouldn’t stop performing transplants” in explaining a rash of patient deaths. Only Dr. O.H. “Bud” Frazier matches that description. | Read more|
The Army Corps of Engineers’ delay in activating a floodway — land designated to take on water — cost millions of dollars in damage to Cairo, Illinois, and surrounding communities in 2011. | Read more|
ZERO TOLERANCE As Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape, Even Suicide Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors. | Read more|
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? | Read more|
Five states don't have laws that specifically criminalize hate crimes. Laws in 45 other states differ. | Read more|
Unregistered employees. Dangerously long driving schedules. Sanitation Salvage’s bid last week to have its suspension lifted produced more damning findings and fresh questions about why it took regulators so long to act. | Read more|
We're highlighting examples from our Facebook political ad collection that are interesting because of how they're targeted, what they say or how they can help explain how Facebook's advertising system works — and how it can be gamed. | Read more|
The following text is a translation from the Spanish version of a lecture James Breiner gave at the University of La Sabana in Bogotá, Colombia, on August 22. | Read more|
A new spending bill contains a fix for an error-prone disclosure system. But will Congress act? | Read more|
Experts say the term 'hate group' is increasingly difficult to define, as extremist groups grow in number, diversify in ideology and use codewords to spread their messages | Read more|
Government wants to cut Lifeline program citing waste, fraud and abuse | Read more|
When it comes to document management one of my favorite tools is DocumentCloud. | Read more|
As the wife of a Muslim religious leader, she came to America with uncertainty and hope. A suspected hate crime snuffed out the hope. | Read more|