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Landlords to Pay $5 Million for Dodging Rent Laws
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun New York City and state officials announced settlements Thursday placing 1,823 apartments under rent stabilization, making a small dent in the city’s problem of...
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Help Us Investigate New York City Rents by Texting Us
by Terry Parris Jr. .bodytext figure.main img { display: none; } In November, ProPublica and WNYC launched an investigation into how some New York City landlords jack up rents higher than the law...
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Tenants Take the Hit as New York Fails to Police Huge Housing Tax Break
by Marcelo Rochabrun and Cezary Podkul When prominent New York developer Jed Walentas asked the city to approve a set of sleek towers on Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront last year, he pitched his...
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Why Counting Mass Shootings is a Bad Way to Understand Gun Violence in America
by Lois Beckett According to articles this week across the Internet, there has been an average of one mass shooting every day in the United States: 355 so far this year. It’s a jarring statistic, and...
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What The Gun Control Debate Ignores and More (MuckReads Weekly)
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Do Drugs Fund Terrorism?
ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate The Narco-terror Trap Do Drugs Fund Terrorism? The Narco-terror Trap The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. An examination of cases...
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The Narco-terror Trap
by Ginger Thompson ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Melinda Beck, special to ProPublica The Narco-terror Trap The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. An examination of...
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Jason Leopold vs. the United States
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} VICE News reporter and author Jason Leopold sometimes goes by another title: “FOIA terrorist.”...
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Supreme Court Back in Session on Race and America’s Classrooms
Race on America’s college campuses has been in the news of late. Debates about diversity, free speech, safe space and more have raged. Adam Liptak, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York...
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NYC Bill Targets Landlords Who Get Tax Breaks, Duck Rent Limits
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun New York City landlords who get big tax breaks in exchange for capping rent increases would have to provide an inventory of their apartments to city housing...
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Small-Scale Violations of Medical Privacy Often Cause the Most Harm
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-produced with NPR. “PPL WORLD WIDE,” the Facebook post shouted, using text-speak for the word “people.” “FRANCES … IS HPV POSITIVE!” The public missive from...
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Celebrities’ Medical Records Tempt Hospital Workers to Snoop
by Charles Ornstein Snooping on celebrities has been a bane for health systems around the country for years. The proliferation of electronic medical records systems has made it easier to track and...
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Unrestrained
by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica Unrestrained While evidence of abuse of the disabled has piled up for decades, one...
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Tyson Foods’ Secret Recipe for Carving Up Workers’ Comp
by Michael Grabell About five years ago, one of the nation’s largest corporations, Tyson Foods, drew a bullseye on the official who oversaw Iowa’s system for compensating injured workers. As workers’...
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What Happened to Adam
by Heather Vogell ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat, special to ProPublica What Happened to Adam It took one mother seven years to learn that the for-profit...
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School Restraints, Narco-Terror Stings and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Coming Soon: An Unbelievable Story of Rape
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The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross
by Justin Elliott ProPublica Red Cross Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Win McNamee/Getty The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern, who was hired to...
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The FBI Checked the Wrong Box and a Woman Ended Up on the Terrorism Watch...
by Raymond Bonner, special to ProPublica, This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. As the Senate debated a proposal earlier this month that would have barred gun sales to people on the...
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Fact-Checking the Debate on Encryption
by Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin As politicians and counter-terrorism officials search for lessons from the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, senior officials have called for...
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