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Maryland Investigating Kushner Real Estate Practices
by Alec MacGillis The office of the Maryland attorney general is investigating the management practices at the many large apartment complexes in the state that are owned and overseen by Kushner...
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Book Review: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Alec MacGillis We are, one hears, spending too much time on Appalachia. There are too many dispatches from woebegone towns, coastal reporters parachuting in to ascertain that, yes, the hard-bitten...
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ProPublica Is Hiring a Senior Reporting Fellow
by ProPublica We are looking for a senior reporting fellow to join one of America’s most innovative (and fun) investigative newsrooms. We’re not interested in you covering the news. Your job will be...
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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Deputy Editor Steve Mills
by Andrea Salcedo Deputy Editor Steve Mills, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the Chicago Tribune, believes he can use editing as a constant learning experience and that, in this field, “there are...
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The Best Reporting on Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, and, Of Course, George...
by Sameera Khan Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, his protégé Rick Gates and the less well-known Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos have all faced scrutiny before...
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Senators Introduce Bill to Reduce ‘Colossal and Completely Preventable Waste’
by Marshall Allen Two U.S. senators introduced legislation Tuesday requiring federal agencies to come up with solutions to the waste caused by oversized eyedrops and single-use drug vials, citing a...
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Forms Matter
by Lena Groeger Forms. They’re the often tedious tasks that stand in the way of an online purchase, seeing the doctor or filing your taxes. They may be boring, but they have tremendous power. Whether...
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Truck Terror Attacks May Be a Sign of ISIS Weakness, But They’re Very Hard to...
by Sebastian Rotella People saw this coming. In the aftermath of the attack in lower Manhattan yesterday, I was reminded of a conversation I had almost a year ago with a veteran counterterrorism chief...
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Administration’s Nominee for CIA Watchdog Allegedly Misled Congress
by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Two former CIA employees say the Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA inspector general misled Congress last month when he testified he was unaware of pending...
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Buyouts Won’t Be the Answer for Many Frequent Flooding Victims
by Lisa Song and Al Shaw, ProPublica, and Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal
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White Supremacists Share Bomb-Making Materials in Online Chats
by A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston Right-wing extremists communicating in confidential online chats in recent months have shared scores of documents detailing the manufacture and use of bombs, grenades,...
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VA Delays Key Agent Orange Decisions
by Charles Ornstein Days after he was sworn in as Veterans Affairs secretary this year, Dr. David Shulkin held a digital town hall meeting to take veterans’ questions. A veteran named Jack posed a...
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Concern Grows Over Youths at Juvenile Correctional Facility Being Sent to...
by Duaa Eldeib State officials, advocates and a federal judge on Thursday proposed remedies to better deal with youths accused of assaulting staff members at a southern Illinois juvenile correctional...
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Downstate-of-Mind: Your Responses to Defining ‘Downstate’ Illinois
by Logan Jaffe When I asked for help defining “Downstate” Illinois a few weeks ago, it was more than mere curiosity; I was asking for advice. I wanted to understand how people felt about the term and...
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Despite Mayor’s Pledge, Hundreds of Chicago Cops Still in Desk Jobs
by Mick Dumke Since taking office in 2011, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has repeatedly vowed to deploy more police officers to combat violence in city neighborhoods, both by pulling them from desk jobs and...
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Despite Trump Campaign Promise, Billionaires’ Tax Loophole Survives Again
by Alec MacGillis From early in the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump swore he’d do away with the so-called carried-interest loophole, the notorious tax break that allows highly compensated...
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So What the Hell Is Doxxing?
by Decca Muldowney Remember Gamergate? Or when the identity of that dentist who killed Cecil the Lion was posted? Or that man who was wrongly identified as the Boston Marathon bomber? These were all...
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Will Texas Massacre Finally Get Military to Improve its Criminal Reporting...
by A.C. Thompson and T. Christian Miller Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had an urgent question Monday about Devin Patrick Kelley, the former U.S. Air Force airman who is accused of killing 26 people...
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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Reporter Jodi S. Cohen
by Andrea Salcedo Jodi Cohen, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the Chicago Tribune, believes journalists can achieve more when collaborating with each other and other newsrooms. In the fifth of a...
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Your $20 Million Loan Went Bust? The Trump Team Has a Job For You
by Isaac Arnsdorf As a deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development in the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, Gavin Clarkson oversees a small program that...
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