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How To Leak To ProPublica
Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. And it requires evidence. Documents are a crucial part of that. We are always on the lookout for them — especially, now, for those regarding the...
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N.C. Governor Loses Re-Election Bid, Attempts to Hold Power by Claiming Voter...
by Jessica Huseman While much of the country debates President-elect Donald Trump’s baseless claim that millions of people voted illegally in the presidential election, the Republican governor of...
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Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick is a Lucky Man. Very Lucky.
by Jesse Eisinger Steven Mnuchin has made a career out of being lucky. The former Goldman Sachs banker nominated to become Donald Trump’s treasury secretary had the perspicacity to purchase a...
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Why Trump Would Almost Certainly Be Violating the Constitution If He...
by Richard Tofel Far from ending with President-elect Trump’s announcement that he will separate himself from the management of his business empire, the constitutional debate about the meaning of the...
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Jury Awards $93 Million in Federal Fraud Case Against Allied Home Mortgage
by Tracy Weber A federal jury has ordered two Texas-based home mortgage companies and their chief executive to pay nearly $93 million for defrauding the government by issuing improper and risky home...
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How Journalists Need to Go Beyond Fact Checking Trump
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New Jersey Will No Longer Collect Loans From Families of Dead Students
by Annie Waldman New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday signed into law a bill requiring the state’s student loan agency to forgive the loans of borrowers who die or become permanently disabled....
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De Blasio Says ‘Enough is Enough’: Landlords Getting Big Tax Break Must Cap...
by Cezary Podkul In his sharpest critique yet of scofflaw landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday it’s “outrageous” that thousands of New York City property owners accepted tax benefits from...
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by Neena Satija for The Texas Tribune and Reveal; Kiah Collier for The Texas Tribune; and Al Shaw for ProPublica Climate change will bring more frequent and fierce rainstorms to cities like Houston....
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Could Programs to Help Undocumented Immigrants Gain Driver’s Licenses Backfire?
by Patrick G. Lee This story was co-published with Mother Jones. Since 2015, California has issued about 800,000 licenses to drivers who lack proof of legal residence. In Illinois, more than 212,000...
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Suspected of Corruption at Home, Powerful Foreigners Find Refuge in the U.S.
by Kyra Gurney, Anjali Tsui, David Iaconangelo, Selina Cheng, This report is a collaboration between ProPublica and the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. A version of...
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Pro-Trump Group Blew by Basic Campaign Finance Laws
by Robert Faturechi and Derek Willis A group that gave more money to one of President-elect Trump’s fundraising efforts than any other political action committee failed to disclose its donors before...
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Will Trump Scrap NASA’s Climate Research Mission?
by Andrew Revkin The wonders of NASA — Mars rovers, astronaut Instagram feeds, audacious missions probing distant galactic mysteries — have long enthralled the American public. And, it turns out, the...
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Family’s Shipping Company Could Pose Problems for Trump’s Transportation Pick
by Josie Albertson-Grove and Masako Melissa Hirsch for ProPublica, Albertson-Grove and Hirsch are with the Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting at Columbia University. President-elect Donald...
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What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism
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Emoluments Clause: Could Overturning 185 Years of Precedent Let Trump Off the...
by Richard Tofel ProPublica recently took a look at the Emoluments Clause, the provision of the Constitution which seems to ban payments from foreign countries to Donald Trump’s businesses once he...
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We’ve Updated Dollars for Docs. Here’s What’s New.
by Ryann Grochowski Jones , Mike Tigas and Charles Ornstein Today we’ve updated our Dollars for Docs interactive database, adding an additional year of data and some new features that make it easier...
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Updated Dollars for Docs
by Charles Ornstein , Lena Groeger , Mike Tigas and Ryann Grochowski Jones We’ve updated Dollars for Docs. It now includes payments made from August 2013 through December 2015 — some $6.25 billion in...
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‘As a White Nationalist, What Do You Do?’
by A.C. Thompson Chip Berlet has spent the past four decades studying right-wing political movements as a writer, activist and scholar. Now retired, he worked for many years as a senior analyst at...
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The Chosen: Who Trump Is Putting in Power
by Jessica Huseman and Rob Weychert ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate The Chosen: Who Trump Is Putting in Power by Jessica Huseman and Rob Weychert December 14, 2016 As...
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