17:00 21 March 2014 by Aviva Rutkin Just three minutes after an earthquake hit California on Monday, the Los Angeles Times broke the story on its website. The short article seemed fairly ordinary. It covered all the major details –… Read More ›
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Proposed federal legislation targets 32 US states that retain laws making it illegal to not declare HIV status to sexual partners
New bill seeks to repeal outdated state HIV discrimination laws Dan Roberts in Washington theguardian.com, Tuesday 10 December 2013 15.48 EST ProPublica’s study ound 541 cases over the last decade where people have been convicted of, or pleaded guilty to,… Read More ›
Proposed federal legislation targets 32 US states that retain laws making it illegal to not declare HIV status to sexual partners
New bill seeks to repeal outdated state HIV discrimination laws Dan Roberts in Washington theguardian.com, Tuesday 10 December 2013 15.48 EST ProPublica’s study ound 541 cases over the last decade where people have been convicted of, or pleaded guilty to,… Read More ›
How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? ( between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year )
An updated estimate says it could be at least 210,000 patients a year, more than twice the number in a frequently quoted Institute of Medicine report By Marshall Allen and ProPublica | Friday, September 20, 2013 | ULTIMATE MALPRACTICE: An updated… Read More ›
NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products • Security experts say programs ‘undermine the fabric of the internet’
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald The Guardian, Thursday 5 September 2013 15.00 EDT Through covert partnerships with tech companies, the spy agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities into… Read More ›
Doctors paid millions to shill for Big Pharma
Thousands of physicians are profiting from promotional speaking gigs for drugmakers, but is the practice ethical? By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein (Credit: Shutterstock/Alexander Raths) This originally appeared on ProPublica. Update Mar. 11, 2013, 4:55 pm: This post has… Read More ›
Plane loads of cash: Flight records reveal Russia flew 30 tonnes of bank notes to Syrian regime
The logs show that a cargo plane belonging to the Syrian Air Force made eight round trips between Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport and Damascus over three months this summer Shaun Walker Monday, 26 November 2012 According to newly released… Read More ›
Documents found in Colorado meth house reveal inner workings of Montana dark money group
By Pro Publica Monday, October 29, 2012 9:29 EDT Topics: Colorado By Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, Frontline This post was co-published with PBS’ Frontline. The boxes landed in the office of Montana investigators in March… Read More ›
Distortion in Tax Code Makes Debt More Attractive to Banks
By JESSE EISINGER, ProPublica Luke Sharrett for The New York TimesPresident Obama’s tax proposals note the tax code’s favoring of debt over equity, but do not offer specific fixes. Thanks to a leaked video, we know that Mitt Romney divides… Read More ›
Study: Banks to blame for over 800,000 unnecessary foreclosures
By Pro Publica Tuesday, September 11, 2012 16:25 EDT By Paul Kiel ProPublica Over the past several years, we’ve reported extensively on the big banks’ foreclosure failings. As a result of banks’ disorganization and understaffing — particularly at the… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 