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Ken Paxton's Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say

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2 Months Ago: -- Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on "Illegal Voting." He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

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Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year.

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7 Months Ago: -- Smoke and Mirrors: How Intoxicating Hemp Seeped Into the First Recreational Marijuana Market in the Country

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Trump's DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor's "Strongest Possible" Objections

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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained

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Tracking Habeas Cases

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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials' Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement

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Podcast - Paper Trail

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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

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How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico

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The Militia and the Mole

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Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy

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An Unbelievable Story of Rape

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The Price of Remission

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Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire

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Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother's Death Was Preventable.

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The EPA Spent Millions Cleaning Up a Massive Superfund Site. Our Tests Found Toxic Levels of Lead in Many Yards.

29 days ago

More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn't Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.

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Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?

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The EPA Doesn't Typically Retest Homes in the Country's Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.

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This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.

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At "Quasi-Public" Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There's Almost No Accountability.

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Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars

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How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter

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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate

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"A Huge Grab of Power": Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid

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I Cold-Called President Trump. Here's What He Told Me About an Oil Tycoon and Major Donor.

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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

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The Trump Administration's Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.

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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: "We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital"

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Nonprofit Explorer: Research Tax-Exempt Organizations

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Looking at Nursing Homes? See Which Ones Have Been Cited for Deficiencies

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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees

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Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made

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Homeland Security Opens Child Exploitation Probe Into Banned Texas Volleyball Coach -- Impact from our reporting: -- This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?

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California Lawmakers Pass Bill to Punish Administrators Who Fail to Vet Teachers for Misconduct -- Impact from our reporting: -- He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.

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He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next? -- Impact from our reporting: -- He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway.

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Senators Criticize Trump Administration's Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid -- Impact from our reporting: -- "Digital Colonialism": U.S. Demands to Access Africans' Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

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House Democrats Demand Answers From Trump's VA on Vets Struggling to Access Mental Healthcare -- Impact from our reporting: -- Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

22 days ago

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount -- Impact from our reporting: -- FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

16 days ago

Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate -- Impact from our reporting: -- A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company's Federal Safety Record.

1 month ago

Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. -- Impact from our reporting: -- Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on "Illegal Voting." He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

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