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Tony Capaccio for Bloomberg reports that the “U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship lacks the robust communications systems needed to transmit critical data to support facilities ashore, according to an unreleased congressional audit, the latest in a succession of troubles for the $34 billion shipbuilding program.” “The program to build a total of 52 ships in…
Read MoreAccurate autopsies help ensure that murderers don’t go free, that suspects aren’t wrongfully prosecuted and that spouses receive the life insurance payments they deserve. But in North Carolina, heavy caseloads are raising the risk of errors, a Charlotte Observer analysis has found. Pathologists in North Carolina’s thinly staffed medical examiner system do as many as…
Read MoreFor two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars, a Reuters investigation found. At the DFAS offices that handle accounting for the Army, Navy, Air Force and other defense agencies, fudging the accounts with false entries is standard operating procedure,…
Read MoreSince 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.
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