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Federal Reserve Announces Sweeping Review of Its Big Bank Oversight
by Jake BernsteinEditor's Note: This story has been updated to cover the Federal Reserve Board's announcement that it would review its supervision of large banks.On the eve of a U.S. Senate hearing...
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The Two Things That Rarely Happen After a Medical Mistake
by Olga Pierce and Marshall AllenThis story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog.Patients who suffer injuries, infections or mistakes during medical care rarely get an acknowledgment or apology,...
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WhatsApp Followers From Around the World Discuss ‘Firestone and the Warlord’
by Terry Parris JrWhen ProPublica and Frontline launched " Firestone and the Warlord," a sweeping investigation into the relationship between Liberian warlord Charles Taylor and the iconic American...
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New York Fed Chief Stands Firm Against Charges of Weak Oversight
by Jake BernsteinWASHINGTON – For almost two hours Friday, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York defended heated assertions from Democratic senators that his institution is too cozy...
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‘That Wasn’t A Piece Of Meat … That Was My Son’ And More In MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr"That wasn't a piece of meat with eyes, that was a human being." It was 24-year-old Dennis Munson Jr.'s first kickboxing fight. The first round went OK. The third round didn't....
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Podcast: Firestone’s Secret History in Liberia
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; }In 1989, African warlord Charles Taylor launched an uprising in Liberia that eventually killed over 200,000 people and left half the country's population as...
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Confession Ruled Admissible in Etan Patz Case
by Naveena SadasivamA New York State Supreme Court Judge ruled Monday that prosecutors may use the confession of the man charged with strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz to death in 1979.In denying the...
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Gov’t Data Sharpens Focus on Crude-Oil Train Routes
by Isaiah Thompson, special to ProPublica, The oil boom underway in North Dakota has delivered jobs to local economies and helped bring the United States to the brink of being a net energy exporter for...
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Patient Safety Journal Adjusts After an Eye-Opening Scandal
by Marshall AllenThis story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog.The aftershocks of what's been called "patient safety's first scandal" continue to reverberate in the medical community, most...
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A Planes, Trains, And Automobiles Edition of MuckReads Weekly
by Terry Parris JrThis week's MuckReads takes a different approach. Instead of the best investigative reporting from the last week, we decided to pull together reporting from the last year that...
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Twelve Steps to Danger: How Alcoholics Anonymous Can Be a Playground for...
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Crude Connections: Where Do Trains Carry Crude Oil?
by Yue QiuThe amount of crude oil being carried on America’s railroads has grown enormously in recent years. Though the routes taken by crude-bearing trains is hidden from the public, safety-incident...
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Leak at Federal Reserve Revealed Confidential Bond-Buying Details
by Jake BernsteinThe Federal Reserve sprung a previously unreported leak in October 2012, when potentially market-moving information about highly confidential monetary deliberations made its way into...
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Podcast: Inside Our New York Fed Investigation
by Sara Afzal .player_box { display: none; }The inner workings of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York rarely come to light. But excerpts from a bank examiner’s secret recordings have made the Fed’s...
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Los Angeles and New York Pin Down School Kids and Then Say It Never Happened
by Annie WaldmanIn March 2012, police responded to a call from a Brooklyn public school about a five-year old autistic boy who was having a tantrum. Officers held down the kindergartener, who was then...
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Pregnancy Discrimination Case Reaches Supreme Court
by Nina MartinToday the U.S. Supreme Court will hold oral arguments in yet another blockbuster case at the intersection of sex discrimination, workplace law and reproductive justice. The central issue...
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The Red Cross CEO Has Been Serially Misleading About Where Donors’ Dollars...
by Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR, This story was co-produced with NPR.The American Red Cross regularly touts how responsible it is with donors' money. "We're...
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Will My Obamacare Health Plan Costs Go Up?
by Charles Ornstein , Lena Groeger and Yue QiuThe open enrollment season for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act is open until Feb. 15, 2015. Our interactive tool lets you compare...
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$1 Spent on Politics = $760 Gained from Federal Gov’t and More in MuckReads...
by Terry Parris Jr$1 spent influencing politics = $760 received from the federal government. America's most politically active corporations – like Ford Motor Company, McDonald's and Bank of America –...
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Big Changes in Fine Print of Some 2015 Obamacare Plans
by Charles Ornstein , Lena Groeger and Ryann Grochowski JonesThis story was co-published with The New York Times' The Upshot.At first glance, the 2015 health plans offered by the Ohio nonprofit...
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