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In September of this year, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the FinCen Files—a leak of suspicious activity rep…
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Nursing homes have been at the center of the COVID pandemic as the disease largely affects elderly populations. Since the end of May, over 65,000 death…
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Nov 20
A May 2016 report by ProPublica revealed a stark finding. A commonly used statistical tool used by criminal justice professionals to predict criminal r…
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Nov 15
Measurements of methane and nitrous oxide in the Earth's atmosphere taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Earth Systems…
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Nov 13
Over the last decade, China has regularly reported over $50 billion less in exports to the U.S. than what the U.S. reports as imports from China each y…
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Oct 26
In 2008, then-President Obama pushed to close the Enron Loophole—the exemption in commodities trading law of certain types of energy futures from overs…
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Sep 18
The average cost of purchased electricity for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is now more than what it was during the California electricity crisis of 20…
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Sep 10
Utility fuel costs for producing electricity have collapsed in recent years as natural gas floods the market for electricity generation. The beneficiar…
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Aug 18
The Government Sponsored Entities, or GSEs, responsible for buying mortgages and packaging them as mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) are well known to …
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Jul 24
While the United States has garnered attention for a growing number of COVID-19 cases, it’s Europe that is contending with the largest death rate from …
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Jul 6
Camden, New Jersey has been designated a success story in recent years for transforming its police department and driving down crime. In 2012, the sout…
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Jun 26
Major pharmaceutical chains, specifically CVS/Caremark, Walgreen’s and Rite Aid, account for over a third of all distributions of opioids according to …
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Jun 16
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