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Her Time

Journalist Katie Engelhart follows Debra Koosed, a 65-year-old dementia patient, on her journey to end her own life. Oregon, the first state to legalize assisted suicide, deliberately excludes people with […]
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The Trump administration has gutted counter-terrorism programs for WMD

In an alarming series of stories, Los Angeles Times reporter David Willman revealed for the first time that the Trump administration has undermined or eliminated numerous counter- terrorism programs to […]
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The Bad Bet

The Bad Bet is about the Illinois General Assemblys questionable attempt to generate revenue for the cash-strapped state by legalizing video gambling in 2009. Lawmakers passed the Video Gaming Act in less than 48 hours without considering the financial, regulatory or social consequences. Ten years later, Illinois has more places to legally place a bet than Nevada, with 33,000 devices scattered across more than 7,200 locations across the state, including bars, restaurants, truck stops and fraternal organizations.
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At Risk: Boys and Girls Clubs and sexual abuse

Hearst CT Media investigated criminal and civil sexual abuse cases tied to Boys and Girls Club across the country. By digging through 1,600 pages of public documents and filing more than 100 public records requests, they were able to find and confirm more than 100 solid cases of abuse that affected 280 victims in 31 states.
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Hidden Dropouts

The Hidden Dropouts series revealed that more than 3,700 students who left Indiana high schools without earning diplomas were written off as leaving to home-school. Chalkbeat discovered that while students who drop out push down schools graduation rates, students labeled as leaving to home-school simply disappear from those calculations.
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Polluted by Money

Oregon allowed pesticides, dropped on clearcuts by helicopter, to waft into residential neighborhoods, the Oregonian found. It failed to enact controls on oil trains, even after a major derailment and fire. It became a dumping ground for old diesel school buses after California tightened rules on emissions.
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Dairyland in Distress

An unprecedented upheaval in dairy farming is threatening a way of life that defined much of Wisconsin for a century, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today Network-Wisconsin found. Global competition, technological advances, industrial farms, changing consumer tastes and trade wars have darkened the iconic red barns that once dotted the landscape, and emptied the pastures of Holsteins and Jerseys and Brown Swiss.
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Throwaway Kids

The Kansas City Star spent a year investigating what happens to foster children across the country after they age out of the system, focusing on their life outcomes. By nearly every measure, they discovered, states are failing in their role as parents to Americas most vulnerable children.
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Copy, Paste, Legislate

It was one of the worst-kept secrets in politics: Legislators dont write the laws that bear their names.But while many people are aware that corporations and lobbyists do much of […]
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Immigration Crisis

An exhaustive USA TODAY Network investigation revealed how the federal immigration system was on the brink of collapse, with administration policies fueling explosive pressure points on the U.S. southern border, […]
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