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North Dakota Abortion Amendment Fails
by Nina MartinA month ago, North Dakota's Measure 1 looked like a winner. The proposal sought to enshrine "the inalienable right to life of every human being at any stage of development" in the state...
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‘How Did You Start Investigating the Red Cross’: A Q & A With ProPublica...
by Hanqing ChenRed Cross CEO Gail McGovern claimed that the charity’s post-Sandy response was “near flawless.” Yet ProPublica’s Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger, along with NPR’s Laura Sullivan,...
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How Crowdsourcing Helped Bring Red Cross Problems to Light
by Stephen EngelbergOver the past decade, journalistic innovators and reformers have eagerly awaited a future in which the wisdom of the crowd would identify potential subjects for investigative...
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North Carolina Tells Charter-School Chain It Can’t Keep Administrator...
by Marian WangThe North Carolina State Board of Education has issued a warning to a charter-school chain for failing to comply with an agency order to disclose the salaries of school administrators....
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His ‘Jaws, Ears and Forehead’ Got Him Pulled Over and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris JrPulled over because of his "cheekbones, jaws, ears and forehead" 130 miles from the border. The Border Patrol's authority is nearly unlimited in the areas in covers. Agents do not...
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Podcast: How We Reported on the American Red Cross
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }The American Red Cross has called its post-Sandy relief efforts "near flawless." But internal documents and on-the-record accounts from responders paint a...
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Catholic Bishops Vote to Revise Rules for Health Care Partnerships
by Nina MartinUpdate, Nov. 12: On Tuesday, the bishops conference overwhelmingly voted to pursue a revision of the directives pertaining to mergers and partnerships. The vote was 213 to 2 with one...
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Coming Soon: Firestone and the Warlord
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Internal Survey Shows the Red Cross’ Own Employees Doubt the Charity’s Ethics
by Justin ElliottA survey of American Red Cross employees shows a crisis of trust in the charity's leadership and deep internal doubts about the Red Cross' commitment to ethical conduct.A summary of...
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‘Firestone and the Warlord’ Live Screening and Post-Film Discussion
by Amanda Zamora .bodytext figure.main img { display: none; }This Tuesday, FRONTLINE premieres Firestone and the Warlord, a 90-minute film documenting the secret history of Firestone's role in...
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AT&T Stops Using Undeletable Phone Tracking IDs
by Julia AngwinAT&T says it has stopped its controversial practice of adding a hidden, undeletable tracking number to its mobile customers' Internet activity."It has been phased off our network,"...
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Chesapeake Energy Faces Subpoena on Royalty Payment Practices
by Abrahm LustgartenThe U.S. Department of Justice is investigating how Chesapeake Energy pays landowners for the natural gas it drills on their property, according to disclosures made earlier this...
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Are Your Strawberries Grown with These Dangerous Pesticides? And More in...
by Terry Parris JrAre your strawberries grown with these dangerous pesticides? Nine out of 10 strawberries come from California. But to keep this $2.6 billion industry growing, farmers rely on a...
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Secret Tapes Hint at Turmoil in New York Fed Team Monitoring JPMorgan
by Jake BernsteinAs the Federal Reserve Bank of New York moved to beef up its oversight of Wall Street two years ago, the team charged with supervising the nation's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, was...
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The Carmen Segarra Tapes
by Jake BernsteinOn Sept. 26, ProPublica, in partnership with the radio program This American Life, revealed that a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had secretly recorded...
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Scoring the Latest Tobacco Bond Bailout: Investors $10, Taxpayers $1
by Cezary PodkulIn our story last month about a tobacco bond bailout by New York's Niagara County, we noted that another county, Chautauqua, also had a deal in the works involving its distressed...
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Talk To Us About Our Firestone Investigation on WhatsApp
by Terry Parris JrIn 1989, warlord Charles Taylor helped plunge Liberia into a brutal, bloody and prolonged civil war. On Nov. 18, ProPublica and Frontline investigate the untold story of the...
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Firestone and the Warlord
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Mixed Company: Sights and Sounds of Liberians and the Impact of War
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Charter School Chain Finally Discloses Salaries — With One Missing
by Marian WangUpdate, Nov. 21: The chairman of the charter school chain has now responded to North Carolina regulators' request for clarification about why the son of the schools' founder was not...
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