Since at least 2006, Nassau County Police Department’s deadly force investigators have never ruled an officer’s actions unjustified, Newsday reports. A Nassau County police officer shot an unarmed man in the back. Another intentionally ran down an unarmed man with his squad car, costing him a leg. Still another shot an unarmed cabdriver after a…
Read MoreIn demand in clinics and on the street, ‘Bupe’ can be a savior or a menace.
Read MoreThe lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show.
Read MoreWater customers at two Greene County utility districts helped throw a more than $6,400 retirement bash for the woman who helped lead the districts for many years, WJHL reports. Who authorized the expenses? According to the itemized receipts, Collins’ daughter, acting manager Kandie Jennings approved the expenses. Jennings is among the family members on unpaid…
Read MoreWhen municipal officials want to build for the future, they have a powerful financial tool at their disposal: general obligation bonds that yield millions of borrowed dollars. The money is meant to let cities move forward on costly projects that will serve the community for decades. But in an unprecedented analysis of Chicago’s finances, a…
Read MoreEvery day, more than 100 million items are posted to Sina Weibo, the microblogging service sometimes called “China’s Twitter”. And every day, teams of censors comb through the posts in search of anything that changes what the government likes to call a “harmonious society.” For the past five months, ProPublica has been quietly watching the…
Read More“Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why.” The Pacific Standard investigates one of the most irrational environmental crimes of the century.
Read MoreA Reuters investigation into the Iranian supreme leader’s $95 billion economic empire—which was partly built on confiscating family property from ordinary citizens: Several other Iranians whose family properties were taken over by Setad described in interviews how men showed up and threatened to use violence if the owners didn’t leave the premises at once. One…
Read MoreMillions have crossed through the fence from Mexico to America, both legally and illegally, making Hidalgo County, Texas, one of the fastest-growing places in America. “El Futuro” is what some residents have begun calling the area, and here the future is unfolding in a cycle of cascading extremes. The country’s hungriest region is also its most overweight,…
Read MoreThe ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians promised and much worse than the government admits today. Farmers have wiped out millions of acres of conservation land, destroyed habitat and contaminated water supplies, an Associated Press investigation found. Five million acres of land set aside for conservation have been converted.…
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