Republicans and Dems Come Together — to Keep IRS From Competing with TurboTax
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View ArticlePodcast: What Should the FDA Do When Drug Tests Are Tainted?
by Mike Webb In an investigation published yesterday, Rob Garver and Charles Seife shared the story of how the Food and Drug Administration found a lab in Houston, Texas, that had provided the agency...
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Discussion: Covering the Frontlines of the Drone War
by Cora Currier The officially secret drone war, carried out in some of the world’s most dangerous regions, is extremely challenging to report on. Several thousand people have been killed in hundreds...
View ArticleNo Substitute: When a Generic Drug Isn’t What it Seems
by Charles Seife and Rob Garver, Special to ProPublica Andrew Richards remembers that he had just sat down in front of the TV when the lightning bolt struck. "It was almost like it went through my ear...
View ArticleDouble Dose: In Second Case of Flawed Drug Research, FDA Response Was Slow...
by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica This week, we reported that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the market for years after discovering they were approved based on...
View ArticleHunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Rundown on What’s Going on at Gitmo
by Cora Currier It’s been 11 years since the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. But the future of the prison, and the fate of the men inside it, is far from certain. With 59 detainees at...
View ArticleWhere Congress Stands on Guns
by Lena Groeger Four months after the Newtown tragedy, the Senate resoundingly defeats gun control legislation. We break down how Senators voted on the bill.
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Gun Bill?
by Lena Groeger The Senate defeated several amendments to the proposed gun control bill, with only two amendments reaching the 60 votes necessary to pass. We break down how senators voted.
View ArticleA Reading Guide to What’s Going on in Boston
Boston is on lockdown as the hunt for suspects in Monday’s Boston marathon bombing is ongoing. Waking up to the news this morning was being thrown into a sea of breaking updates, emergency warnings,...
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Boston Bombing Suspects Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London Attacks
by Sebastian Rotella April 20: This story has been corrected. As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was quiet, friendly, spoke good...
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FDA Approved New Drug Despite Ongoing Investigation of Lab Misconduct
by Charles Seife and Rob Garver, Special to ProPublicaLast week, ProPublica reported that the Food and Drug Administration allowed dozens of medications to stay on the market, even though the research...
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Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
by Christie ThompsonAmong the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment,...
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The Admission Arms Race: Six Ways Colleges Game Their Numbers
by Marian WangAs college-bound students weigh their options, they often look to the various statistics that universities trumpet — things like the high number of applications, high test scores, and...
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Play Our Experimental News Game: HeartSaver
by Sisi Wei , Amanda Zamora and Al ShawHeartSaver is an experiment in news game design, built in two days for the April 2013 GEN Editors’ Lab Hackathon. How many lives can you save?
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Feds Turn Up Heat on Westchester
by Nikole Hannah-JonesApril 23: This post has been updated to include the response from the Westchester county attorney. The showdown in Westchester County over a 4-year-old federal residential...
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In Key Senate Job, Ex-Lockheed Exec Replaced by Ex-Lockheed Lobbyist
by Justin ElliottLast year, we told you about how former Lockheed Martin executive Ann Sauer had been hired to be the top Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee.Sauer got $1.6...
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What Went Wrong in West, Texas — and Where Were the Regulators?
by Theodoric MeyerApril 25: This post has been corrected.A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200, authorities still don’t know exactly why the...
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How Hezbollah Trained an Operative to Spy on Israeli Tourists
by Sebastian Rotella A rare inside look at Hezbollah during a recent terror trial in Cyprus portrayed a militant group with the prowess of an intelligence service: meticulous overseas reconnaissance,...
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Billions Proposed for New Border Security. Where Would the Money Go?
by Christie ThompsonFederal spending on border security is at an all-time high—and it would get even higher under the Gang of Eight’s new plan. The Senate immigration proposal, released last week,...
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Discussion: Are Temp Workers Earning Fair Wages?
by Amanda ZamoraTransportation networks for temporary workers are a staple of immigrant communities across the country. Vans and trucks ferry low-wage laborers to and from jobs at factories,...
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