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âCensorship disguised as lawâ: Investigative journalists in Peru push back against government crackdown - ICIJ
ICIJ media partners are spearheading an attempt to overturn a law that could curtail crucial foreign funding.
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When a travelling doctor questioned why a patient had been receiving dangerous cancer treatments for 11 years, he set off a chain of events that would divide a city and implicate a beloved oncologist in a string of suspicious deaths.
(Published Dec. 2024)
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A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctorâs Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospitalâs highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
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It's your last chance of the year to grab some Bellingcat training! From flight tracking to scraping, here's what we've got available in December...
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Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who werenât exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
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Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDCâs decision to sto...
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âWeâre broken and weâre being poached by ICE,â one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. âItâs unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.â
By @keribla.bsky.social
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As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
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Those seeking pardons through official channels have watched while Trump grants pardons to people who never entered the system at all.
âIf youâre a donor or political supporter, you move to the front of the line,â said a lawyer for one pardon-seeker.
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How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The presidentâs second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors â as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.
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A trailblazing analysis by ICIJ revealed that as of July 2025, the now Cambodian financial institution Huione Group sent about a million dollars a day in the digital currency tether to accounts at Binance, the worldâs largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers
An ICIJ investigation traced tens of thousands of transactions and found crypto platforms awash with dirty money.
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The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them.
âI mean, there could be hundreds,â he said.
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were âwashed away in the blood of reconciliation,â they could never...
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What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan?
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
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When an ICE agent fired the tear gas canister, it hit 55-year-old nurse Vincent Hawkins in the face, shattering his glasses and concussing him.
As he was rushed to the emergency room, he wondered if he'd ever see through his left eye again.
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Trumpâs Immigration Forces Deploy âLess Lethalâ Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agentsâ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in peopleâs bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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Data shows Lake City Army Ammunition Plant casings accounted for about 29% of the 5.56 and .223 rounds (which are commonly used in AR-15 style firearms) found at crime scenes from 2017 to 2024, twice as much as any other manufacturer of those rounds.
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AR-15 ammunition at a crime scene? Good odds this US Army plant made it. - ICIJ
Popular AR-15 ammunition made at an Army-owned facility was far more likely than any other to turn up in a government database tracking evidence from gun crimes, new data shows.
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Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.
When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.
She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.
By @maxblau.bsky.social
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A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program â and the workers it ...
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And, of course, includes obligatory approving quote from Andrew Tate
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Emblematic of everything that is wrong with the global economy (and culture) right now Crypto is a Ponzi scheme and what was once seen as a sporting institution with integrity has sold all of it www.ft.com/content/9fb4...
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Emblematic of everything that is wrong with the global economy (and culture) right now
Crypto is a Ponzi scheme and what was once seen as a sporting institution with integrity has sold all of it
www.ft.com/content/9fb4...
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FC Barcelonaâs tie-up with Samoa-based crypto start-up sparks backlash
Heavily indebted club faces accusations of desperation over sponsorship deal with little-known firm Zero-Knowledge Proof
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A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to âfall in lineâ with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team.
Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired.
(Published June 2025)
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A Doctor Challenged the Opinion of a Powerful Child Abuse Specialist. Then He Lost His Job.
A Minneapolis pediatrician said he felt pressured to âfall in lineâ with child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Harper and her team. Then he was given a choice: resign or be fired.
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Back in the spring, @ziembavision.bsky.social continued her vital work looking into the conditions in military housing with this incredible investigation âŹď¸
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Navy Secretary "Appalled" by Barracks Conditions in Guam
Newly obtained photos reveal the âclearly neglectedâ conditions inside Guam barracks that prompted an uproar by Navy officials.
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đ˝ď¸ WATCH: Our reporting has shown that recent policy changes at the VA are having an impact on working conditions and on patient care, but we need your help to understand the full picture.
If you recently left the VA, hereâs how you can reach us:
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And even if a destabilized Ukraine were to join the EU, it would import that instability into the Union - and that's exactly what Moscow wants.
#EurSky #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu
Russia is directing a lot of resources to destabilize Ukraine from the inside. But what motivates the Ukrainians willing to work against their own country? đ politi.co/4pvYFjJ
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The in laws lived in Trinidad until last summer. Some mad stuff happening there now. US troops arriving, seemingly in prep for a Venezuela invasion
Trump seems far keener on international interventions than BidenâŚ
trinidadexpress.com/news/âŚ.
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I had to keep radar a secret, says PM
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has explained her decision to withhold information about United States marines installing a radar system in Tobago, saying she believed it would have been unwise ...
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The #CoinLaundry, a groundbreaking cross-border investigation led by ICIJ, reveals how crypto companies profited from crime while victims were financially ruined.
Learn more about reporting and findings:
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About The Coin Laundry investigation
The investigation reveals how crypto companies profited from crime while victims were financially ruined.
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đ´"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When itâs withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few."
Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substackâŚ.
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The British state is addicted to secrecy - we need to fight back
Our politicians and officials are using public money to keep citizens in the dark, says Heather Brooke
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WHAT? Ihr habt schon 19.000 ⏠in den ĂberbrĂźckungsfonds gesteckt!?
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Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me âgovernment has banned taxis for asylum seekersâ *really isnât*
New lines like âHome Office spent ÂŁ1k over weekend on taxisâ would struggle to make a local newspaper
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