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Veterans Group Sues to Block VA Shadow Rulers
A new lawsuit challenges the legality of a secret Mar-a-Lago troika after ProPublica revealed its influence over the Department of Veterans Affairs. | Read more|
What’s Your Experience With the Americans With Disabilities Act? We Want to Know.
We want to know how the law affects you, whether you’re a person with a disability, caretaker, business owner, architect or contractor. | Read more|
When Sarah Sanders and the ACLU Teamed Up for Voting Rights
Although the Trump administration wants to restrict access to the ballot box, its chief spokesperson once sued to overturn a ban on student voting. | Read more|
Center for Public Integrity Board of Directors condemns President Trump’s attacks on the press
Led by The Boston Globe, more than 200 newspapers are publishing editorials condemning President Donald Trump for his hostile rhetoric directed at the news media. The Center for Public Integrity, in an unprecedented move, has decided to issue a statement speaking out against the president's attacks: | Read more|
Meet the Man Who Filed 1,400 FOI Requests to Prove Data Acquisition Isn’t Terrorism
For the last three years Gavin Chait has been fighting — and winning — multiple freedom of information (FOI) cases to unlock data on vacant properties in England and Wales. Here’s how he used a range of evidence to fight a widely misused exemption. | Read more|
Investigating the Supply Chain: Latest Addition to GIJN’s Resource Center
Exposing “supply chains” — the connections between the products we buy and the circumstances of their creation — has proved to be fertile ground for investigative journalism. | Read more|
State Aid For Journalism: Should Governments Provide Subsidies to News Media?
State support for media is not a new concept. | Read more|
GIJN Launches Portuguese Social Media Channels
We’re delighted to announce that GIJN has launched a new initiative: GIJN em Português, in partnership with our member the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji). | Read more|
Did You Go to a Washington Nationals Game With Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh?
Trump’s pick is a baseball fan who racked up considerable debt buying season tickets. Help us figure out who went with the nominated judge. | Read more|
Watchdog calls for investigation into Wilbur Ross' financial dealings
Campaign Legal Center says commerce secretary violated federal law | Read more|
Wind And Waves
A new radio station starts in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria | Read more|
Famed Houston Surgeon Updates Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures
ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle reported in May that Dr. O.H. “Bud” Frazier had often failed to disclose his payments from medical device makers in articles he authored. Since then, he’s amended his disclosures for three pieces in the New England Journal of Medicine. | Read more|
Tough Luck
A boardgame plays up the worst nightmares of Japanese youth | Read more|
Amit Shah Omits Liability That Secured Credit For Son’s Business In Electoral Affidavit; Dramatic Increase In Credit Facilities To Son’s Firm In Last Year
Amit Shah mortgaged two of his properties for his son Jay Shah’s business venture Kusum Finserve LLP, which has recorded dramatic increase in credit facilities in recent years despite its poor finances. The BJP national president’s contingent liability with respect to this credit facility is, however, missing from | Read more|
What Happens When a Pipeline Runs Afoul of Government Rules? Authorities Change the Rules.
Federal authorities halted work on the massive Mountain Valley Pipeline this month after an appeals court ruled that federal agencies neglected to follow environmental protections. | Read more|
No place to run (rebroadcast)
In Texas, the foster care system is failing the vulnerable children it’s meant to protect, leaving many without a safe place to live. | Read more|
Let migrant children bid for asylum separate from parents' cases, lawyers say
Lawyers for a group of migrant children are fighting to ensure that the kids can plead for asylum independently of their parents’ cases—even though the children have been reunited with their parents after prolonged separation at the border. | Read more|
Why India’s Civil Servants Are Disaffected With The 360-Degree Empanelment Process For Top Central Government Posts
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses secretaries of the government of India at an informal meeting in April 2015. That month, the central government introduced the 360-degree appraisal procedure for the empanelment of civil servants for top central government posts. | Read more|
The “Discernible Lack Of Transparency” In 360-Degree Empanelment Is “Rather Unfair To The Officer”: Former Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar
KM Chandrasekhar served as the cabinet secretary, the highest post in the Indian civil service, for four years from 2007–11. Chandrasekhar is an Indian Administrative Services officer from the 1970 batch of the Kerala cadre and served a 15-year-long tenure with the central government. During this period, he served as | Read more|
When spark meets sprawl: Building in wildlands increases fire risk
Fire is as common to Western states as the drought-dried shrubs that feed the flames. This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Oakland Hills Firestorm in the San Francisco Bay Area that destroyed about 3,000 homes and killed 25 people. At an estimated $1.5 billion in losses – $2.7 billion in today’s dollars – | Read more|
Election 2016 Gets a Report Card
A report out today by the MIT Election Lab finds signs of progress and evidence of protest. | Read more|
Pelosi is the star of GOP attack ads, worrying Democrats upbeat about midterms
While Democrats grow optimistic about their chances of taking control of the House in November, they are increasingly anxious that the presence of their longtime and polarizing leader, Nancy Pelosi, is making it harder for many of their candidates to compete in crucial swing districts. | Read more|
At prison reform meeting, Trump praises Texas’ “very successful” DACA challenge
The Trump administration has promised to phase out the Obama-era immigration program. But the president himself has also expressed sympathy for "Dreamers." | Read more|
On Paul Manafort and foreign lobbying: a Q&A with the author of ‘The Torturers’ Lobby’
Center for Public Integrity’s 1992 report detailed Manafort’s early influence | Read more|
Defense contractor ends its lease of Phoenix building where it held immigrant children
Less than a week after Reveal broke the story that contractor MVM Inc. was detaining immigrant children in an unmarked office building in Phoenix, the company has terminated its lease on the property. | Read more|
Federal agency sent immigrant kids to dangerous youth facility, despite warning signs
By the time the federal government started sending immigrant children to Shiloh Treatment Center in 2009, the warning flags were waving blood red. | Read more|
Democrats Vow Investigation of VA’s Shadow Rulers After ProPublica Story
“This situation reeks of corruption and cronyism,” said the top Democrat on the House veterans committee. | Read more|
The Real BlacKkKlansman - And Other KKK Infiltrators
Spike Lee’s Hero is Not the First Black Person to Breach the Klan — Or the Most Effective. | Read more|
How I Befriended a Prisoner on Suicide Watch
I looked into her eyes and told her, “Promise me you won’t hurt yourself again.” | Read more|
Deadnamed
The way cops in Jacksonville and other jurisdictions investigate the murders of transgender women adds insult to injury and may be delaying justice. | Read more|
Care homes used untrained rehab workers while collecting millions from Medicaid
Seven adult care homes in North Carolina collected more than $8.4 million in Medicaid funding while employing untrained caregivers, some with serious criminal histories, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. | Read more|
BJP govt is misleading the public: Congress
The Congress dubbed the GDP numbers as “surprising” and “highly suspect” that could dent India’s global credibility and accused the prime minister and the finance minister of “misleading” the public. | Read more|
Focus on holy city of Varanasi as UP poll battle in last phase
With battle of ballots for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly entering the last phase, the focus of all political parties has shifted to the holy city of Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constitunecy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | Read more|
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