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Broadcasters Make Emergency Motion to Block Transparency Rule
by Justin Elliott The National Association of Broadcasters, an industry group representing television stations around the country, is asking a court to block the implementation of a new rule that will...
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How Many Millions of Cellphones Are Police Watching?
by Megha Rajagopalan 7/20/2012: This story has been updated. In response to a congressional inquiry, mobile phone companies on Monday finally disclosed just how many times they’ve handed over users’...
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Cardiac Arrest: Hospital Refuses to Give Widow her Husband’s Heart
by Marshall Allen After more than eight years, Linda Carswell finally has proof: According to photographs submitted as evidence at a recent court hearing, her husband's heart sits in a locker in the...
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The Best Reporting on Detention and Rendition Under Obama
by Cora Currier and Suevon Lee When Barack Obama took office, he banned torture, shut down the CIA's network of black-site prisons and pledged to close Guantanamo. But exactly where terror suspects...
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That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker
by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan 7/20/2012: This story has been updated. This story was co-published with The New York Times. This story is not subject to our Creative Commons license. The device...
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Inside the Investigation of Leading Republican Money Man Sheldon Adelson
by Matt Isaacs, Lowell Bergman and Stephen Engelberg This story was co-published with PBS' "Frontline." A decade ago gambling magnate and leading Republican donor Sheldon Adelson looked at a desolate...
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How Valuable is Your Privacy? Join Our Conversation on Smartphone Surveillance.
by Blair Hickman Last year, cellphone carriers responded to 1.3 million data requests from law enforcement. Advertisers, too, are constantly looking to outsmart your smartphone. What can your data...
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Explore Hundreds of Campaign Emails in the Message Machine
by Jeff Larson We’ve been collecting campaign emails for the last few months for a project we call the Message Machine. If you’ve followed the project you may already know that campaigns have been...
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Classified in Gitmo Trials: Detainees’ Every Word
by Cora Currier Can the government declare anything a Guantanamo detainee does or says automatically classified? That’s the question posed by two challenges to a government order declaring “any and...
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Obama Administration Wants Review of Prisoner’s Commutation Request
by Dafna Linzer This post was co-published with The Washington Post. The Obama administration has asked for a fresh review of an Alabama federal inmate's commutation request and directed the Justice...
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The Magnetar Fallout: Who’s Been Charged, Has Settled, or is Now Being...
by Cora Currier July 19: This post has been updated. It was originally published on May 17. The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars' worth of risky deals called collateralized debt...
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Education Department Revamps Broken Disability Review Program
by Sasha Chavkin, Special to ProPublica The Education Department proposed new rules on Tuesday to revamp its troubled program for forgiving the federal student loans of borrowers who become disabled....
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Why Can’t Medicine Seem to Fix Simple Mistakes?
by Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Marshall Allen, ProPublica NYU's Langone Medical Center announced this week that it was adopting new procedures after the death of a 12-year old boy from septic...
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HSBC’s Money Laundering Lapses, By the Numbers
by Cora Currier This week a Senate investigation detailed that HSBC had lax controls against money-laundering and often ignored warnings about clients with ties to drug cartels and terrorists. The...
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Banks’ Lending Frenzy Left Borrowers Buried in Student Debt, Report Details
by Marian Wang .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} Much like the mortgage market, the market for private student loans has gone through a big boom and a messy bust. Some banks and lenders played...
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Graphic: Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors?
by Al Shaw An interactive chart showing the share of all contributions given by the top ten donors to each of the 12 largest super PACs.
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Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
by Suevon Lee July 24: This post has been updated and corrected. Voter IDs laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be another close election year. Supporters say the laws —...
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The Best Reporting on Guns in America
by Blair Hickman , Suevon Lee and Cora Currier In the wake of last week's shooting in Aurora, Colo., we've taken a step back and laid out the best pieces we could find about guns. They're roughly...
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After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters
by Sabrina Shankman, Tom Jennings, Brendan McCarthy, Laura Maggi and A.C. Thompson Updated July 24: The New Orleans Police Department and the Department of Justice have reached an agreement for...
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