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Double Dose: In Second Case of Flawed Drug Research, FDA Response Was Slow and Secretive

Double Dose: In Second Case of Flawed Drug Research, FDA Response Was Slow and Secretive

April 20, 2013 8:00 pm
(©iStockphoto.com/DavidBGray) by Rob Garver and Charles Seife, Special to ProPublica This week, we reported that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the...

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New Arrests in Murdoch Bribery Scandal Raise Question of U.S. Charges
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New Arrests in Murdoch Bribery Scandal Raise Question of U.S. Charges

by Lois Beckett, ProPublica This weekend, five more journalists from a Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid were arrested as part of an ongoing bribery investigation. The arrested journalists, all from the The Sun, were later released, and have yet to be charged with any crimes. (As the Wall Street Journal explained this summer, arrests in the U.K. are often made early in [...]

Published by on February 14, 2012 4:45 am
Senator Demands Answers from Freddie Mac’s Regulator

Senator Demands Answers from Freddie Mac’s Regulator

Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, and Chris Arnold, NPR News Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) sent a list of questions about Freddie Mac’s controversial trades to the mortgage giant’s regulator, highlighting how much remains unknown even after a flurry of statements from the regulator. ProPublica and NPR reported on Monday that Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage-insurance company, placed multibillion-dollar bets [...]

Published by on February 6, 2012 4:45 pm
False Joe Paterno Death Report Relied on Faulty Sourcing

False Joe Paterno Death Report Relied on Faulty Sourcing

by Daniel Victor, ProPublica This story was co-published with Poynter. The Onward State tweet that erroneously reported Joe Paterno’s death Saturday night and led to an avalanche of false reports in other outlets was based on the work of two student reporters: One was snookered by a false email, and one overstated his knowledge of the events, according to the site’s co-founder. [...]

Published by on January 24, 2012 12:45 pm
Deutsche Analyst Sounded Alarm When Asked to Alter Numbers

Deutsche Analyst Sounded Alarm When Asked to Alter Numbers

by Carrick Mollenkamp, Special to ProPublica At a time when mortgage-backed securities were imploding and customers were fleeing the market, a junior analyst at Deutsche Bank AG protested when he was asked to alter the numbers in a spreadsheet to make a Deutsche security look less risky to ratings agencies, according to a person with [...]

Published by on January 21, 2012 4:45 am
The Recess Appointment(s) Obama Hasn’t Made

The Recess Appointment(s) Obama Hasn’t Made

A move by President Obama this week to proceed with a handful of recess appointments has top GOP leaders crying foul, complaining that the move is questionably legal because it ignores a clever procedural technicality used by Republicans to prevent such appointments. But if the White House feels confident enough in the legality of its actions and has chosen [...]

Published by on January 10, 2012 12:45 pm
Testing Program Fails Soldiers, Leaving Brain Injuries Undetected

Testing Program Fails Soldiers, Leaving Brain Injuries Undetected

by Joaquin Sapien and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR In 2007, with roadside bombs exploding across Iraq, Congress moved to improve care for soldiers who had suffered one of the war’s signature wounds, traumatic brain injury. Lawmakers passed a measure requiring the military to test soldiers’ brain function before they deployed and again when they [...]

Published by on November 29, 2011 6:00 am
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