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How Is Congress Voting on Gun Control? Help Us #TrackTheVote
by Amanda Zamora and Lena Groeger The Senate is weighing the first major legislation aimed at curbing gun violence since the Newtown shootings, but despite months of negotiations the fate of that bill...
View ArticleAnother Layer to Rendell’s Fracking Connections
by Justin Elliott Recently, we wrote about former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's connections to the natural gas industry after he published a pro-fracking op-ed in The New York Daily News. Following...
View ArticleVoter Information Wars: Will the GOP Team Up With Wal-Mart’s Data Specialist?
by Lois Beckett The Republicans have admitted it: They need to get serious about collecting and analyzing voter data. Well, you can't get much more serious than talking to Teradata, the "data...
View ArticlePodcast: When Prosecutors Mishandle Cases, Everyone Pays…Except For Them
by Minhee Cho Last week, ProPublica's Joaquin Sapien detailed how New York City prosecutors had committed harmful misconduct in more than two dozen cases — sometimes putting the innocent behind bars...
View ArticleA Simple Fix: Should New York Compel Judges to Report Problem Prosecutors?
by Stephen Engelberg This op-ed was co-published with the New York Daily News. Shih-Wei Su was jailed for 12 years on attempted murder charges before a federal appeals court overturned his conviction,...
View ArticleSenator Pushes for Investigation of ‘False Statements’ by Dark Money Groups
by Lois Beckett 4/10: This post has been updated with response from Whitehouse’s office. A Democratic senator is pushing for an investigation of nonprofit groups that told the Internal Revenue Service...
View ArticleFor Most Homeowners, Gov’t Foreclosure Deal Brings A Few Hundred Bucks
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View ArticleGitmo Defense Lawyers Say Somebody Has Been Accessing Their Emails
by Cora Currier The long-troubled military trials at Guantanamo Bay were hit by revelations earlier this year that a secret censor had the ability to cut off courtroom proceedings, and that there were...
View ArticleEverything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration
by Theodoric Meyer When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced cancellation this year due to the package of mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration, the National Park Service kicked into...
View ArticleAre California Prisons Punishing Inmates Based on Race?
by Christie Thompson In several men’s prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispanic, yellow for everyone...
View ArticleNo Warrant, No Problem: How The Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data
by Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass
View ArticleFDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica On the morning of May 3, 2010, three agents of the Food and Drug Administration descended upon the Houston office of Cetero Research, a firm that...
View ArticleRepublicans and Dems Come Together — to Keep IRS From Competing with TurboTax
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View ArticlePodcast: What Should the FDA Do When Drug Tests Are Tainted?
by Mike Webb In an investigation published yesterday, Rob Garver and Charles Seife shared the story of how the Food and Drug Administration found a lab in Houston, Texas, that had provided the agency...
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Discussion: Covering the Frontlines of the Drone War
by Cora Currier The officially secret drone war, carried out in some of the world’s most dangerous regions, is extremely challenging to report on. Several thousand people have been killed in hundreds...
View ArticleNo Substitute: When a Generic Drug Isn’t What it Seems
by Charles Seife and Rob Garver, Special to ProPublica Andrew Richards remembers that he had just sat down in front of the TV when the lightning bolt struck. "It was almost like it went through my ear...
View ArticleDouble Dose: In Second Case of Flawed Drug Research, FDA Response Was Slow...
by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica This week, we reported that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the market for years after discovering they were approved based on...
View ArticleHunger Strikes and Indefinite Detention: A Rundown on What’s Going on at Gitmo
by Cora Currier It’s been 11 years since the first detainees were brought to Guantanamo Bay. But the future of the prison, and the fate of the men inside it, is far from certain. With 59 detainees at...
View ArticleWhere Congress Stands on Guns
by Lena Groeger Four months after the Newtown tragedy, the Senate resoundingly defeats gun control legislation. We break down how Senators voted on the bill.
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Gun Bill?
by Lena Groeger The Senate defeated several amendments to the proposed gun control bill, with only two amendments reaching the 60 votes necessary to pass. We break down how senators voted.
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