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NYPD Gets Sued After Kicking Wrong Family Out of Home
by Sarah Ryley and Stephen Rex Brown for ProPublica and The Daily News A version of this article was also published in the New York Daily News. The New York Police Department got an order kicking a...
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Collateral Damage: Decades Later, a Suicide Can Be Added to Domestic Terror...
by A.C. Thompson The official explanation is simple. On a March morning in 1988, Pham Dang Cuong had stopped his car on an elevated highway not far from Houston’s shimmering downtown office towers....
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Investigation Exposes Failings of Oversight in NYC Group Homes
by Joaquin Sapien Updated (Apr. 13, 2016): This story has been updated to include a statement from an ACS spokeswoman. It was a disaster waiting to happen. That’s what the New York City Department of...
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The Best Reporting on Bernie Sanders Over the Years
by Sarah Smith Bernie Sanders became the first socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and ran successfully as an Independent for the House of Representatives and then the Senate. Now, the Democratic...
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Federal Government Finally Forgives Billions in Debt of Students Who’ve...
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun The federal Department of Education said on Tuesday it would offer to write off $7.7 billion of student debt owed by disabled individuals, taking a big step to...
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Dangerous Gaps in Day Care Regulation, the Locally Sourced Lie and More in...
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Captive Labor and the Reporters Who Exposed an International Scandal
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ProPublica Wins Third Pulitzer Prize for ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’
ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Donate ProPublica Wins Third Pulitzer Prize for ‘An Unbelievable Story of Rape’ April 18, 2016 T. Christian Miller, a senior reporter for ProPublica, and...
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The Best Reporting on John Kasich Through the Years
by Sarah Smith Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s home-state paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has long noted his mix-and-match style. He is a proud fiscal conservative who tried to roll back the power of...
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Head of Accreditor for For-profit Colleges Leaves Amid Growing Scrutiny
by Annie Waldman The head of troubled for-profit college watchdog, Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, has stepped down, the agency said Monday in a statement. The resignation of...
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How Information Graphics Reveal Your Brain’s Blind Spots
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Why Haven’t Bankers Been Punished? Just Read These Insider SEC Emails
by Jesse Eisinger This story was co-published with The New Yorker. It is not subject to our Creative Commons license. In the late summer of 2009, lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were...
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New York Hospital to Pay $2.2 Million Fine for Allowing Filming of Patients...
by Charles Ornstein NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has agreed to pay a $2.2 million penalty to federal regulators for allowing television crews to film two patients without their consent – one who was...
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Foiled by FOIL: How One City Agency Has Dragged Out a Request for Public...
by Joaquin Sapien Ten months ago, three teenaged boys who had escaped from a group home in Brooklyn were arrested for the violent assault and rape of a woman in Manhattan. The boys had been placed in...
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Chat with the Lawyer Who Wrote the Nuisance Abatement Law and the Reporter...
In the 1970s, Times Square was a very different place, filled with streetwalkers, porn shops, and brothels disguised as fleabag motels. Efforts to clean up the neighborhood proved futile. Police would...
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The NYPD is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned Shops, Then Pushing For...
by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Edwin Torres for ProPublica The NYPD is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned...
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Mexican Human Rights Defenders Say They Are Target of Smear Campaign
by Ginger Thompson Last Saturday, I was surprised and somewhat alarmed when an email came in from one of Mexico’s most prominent human rights defenders. “Can we talk?” read the subject line. “It’s...
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South Korean Slave Labor, Chicago’s Flawed Policing and More in MuckReads Weekly
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SRSLY: That Wild Alaskan Pollock Is Frozen Chinese Pollock?
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We'll distill the...
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Uncovering the Fiction of ‘Farm to Table’ Food
by Adam Harris .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} If you dine out regularly, chances are you’ve seen “farm-to-table,” “locally sourced,” and...
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