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Banks’ Errors Continue to Cause Wrongful Foreclosures
Four years into the foreclosure crisis, banks say they’ve made major improvements in how they handle struggling homeowners. They’ve promised, for example, not to foreclose on homeowners who are being...
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How Murdoch Reporters’ Bribes to British Cops Violate U.S. Law
Imagine you’re a Fleet Street reporter at a British tabloid with a pocketful of cash. You meet a trusted source at a pub, a police officer who tells you about the royal family’s confidential schedule...
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Big Banks get Away with Fraud, as Foreclosure Probes Prove Inadequate
Since flawed foreclosure practices by the nation’s biggest banks became last fall’s biggest scandal, federal bank regulators and the attorneys general of all 50 states launched simultaneous...
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Presidential Pens Tilt Heavily toward Pardoning Whites Over Blacks
White criminals seeking presidential pardons over the past decade have been nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities, a ProPublica examination has found. Blacks have had the poorest chance...
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Ex-Justice Official: Too Hard to Jail Wall Street Executives
It’s an issue we and others have noted againand again: Years after the financial crisis, there have still been no prosecutions of top executives at the major players in the financial crisis. Why’s...
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Freddie Mac Told to Stop Betting Against Homeowners
Freddie Mac agreed last month to stop making new bets against American homeowners after its regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, raised concerns, according to a statement the agency issued...
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Here’s the Federal Regulator that Won’t Help Homeowners
Last week, ProPublica and NPR raised questions about a risky investment strategy at Freddie Mac that would pay off if homeowners stayed trapped in expensive mortgages. It’s just the latest example of...
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BOA, The Dirty Lying Rotten Scoundrels
When Bank of America announced it was buying Merrill Lynch in September 2008, bank execs told their shareholders that the merger might hurt earnings a touch. It didn’t turn out that way. Losses at...
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FDA Allowed New Drug on Market Despite Fraudulent Lab Tests
Although the Food and Drug Administration was aware that a major pharmaceutical research laboratory in Houston had falsified data and was engaged in “egregious” violations which undermined the safety...
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In Search of Answers: Why did the West Chemical & Fertilizer Plant Explode?
The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas early April 18, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Stone A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant...
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Walmart Purchased Tons of Sports Bras from Banned Bangladesh Factories
Since the Rana Plaza building collapse killed more than 1,100 people in April, retailers have faced mounting pressure to improve safety at Bangladesh garment factories and to sever ties with...
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Affirmative Action Lives On, For Now
Image: Flickr via IslesPunkFan Affirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them. Great numbers of Americans...
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How US Spy Agencies Might be Reformed
National Security Administration headquarters, Fort Meade, Maryland (Photo: wikipedia) Although the House defeated a measure that would have defunded the bulk phone metadata collection program, the...
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How many people in the U.S. die from acetaminophen overdose?
How many people in the United States die or suffer serious harm from acetaminophen overdose? To try to answer this question, ProPublica examined three sets of primary data, as well as dozens of...
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Who’s panicking?
Don’t look to a market panic to save us. We are in upside-down world, where a freak-out now would help stave off financial devastation later. By staying cool, the markets are making a crisis more...
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Here’s why healthcare.gov has problems
It is no secret that healthcare.gov, the federal government’s new health insurance market place, has been plagued with problems, preventing users from viewing insurance options and plans on the...
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NSA claims spying program foiled 54 attacks, but evidence hard to find
Two weeks after Edward Snowden’s first revelations about sweeping government surveillance, President Obama shot back. “We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information...
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Minimum oversight of Assisted Living Facilities leaves elderly at risk
Workers found 82-year-old Vincenzina Pontoni submerged in a deep whirlpool bathtub. She had drowned. Pontoni, a resident of an assisted living facility near Cleveland, wasn’t supposed to be left alone;...
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Here’s why two Obama supporters lost their health insurance
Kaiser Permanente’s decision to cancel the insurance policies of lifelong Democrats Lee Hammack and JoEllen Brothers generated a flood of interest yesterday. The couple, supporters of President Obama,...
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Who are those ‘Special Government Employees’ at the State Department?
U.S. Department of State Headquarters (Photo: Wikipedia) Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin drew scrutiny for a special arrangement that allowed her to work part time at the State...
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