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How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages!
Alleged fraud put JPMorgan Chase hundreds of millions of dollars ahead; ordinary homeowners, not so much. By David Dayen.
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Who Is the Biggest Kleptocrat in the Trump Administration?
A fierce race to the bottom is taking place between cabinet members who have been bilking taxpayers in ways both large and small. By Alex Shephard.
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Irma and María: Shedding Light on Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality
Puerto Rico is no stranger to crisis. By Ana Portnoy.
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Vietnamese banker sentenced to death for fraud that exposed corruption
Vietnam denies the anti-corruption fight boils down to political infighting and says it is government policy to ‘deal with wrongdoing and corruption.’
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Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K
Accompanied by his wife, the HHS secretary journeyed to Geneva, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo and other cities for events.
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How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Candidates in New York
In one of the last, most powerful vestiges of Tammany Hall-style politics, New York party bosses pick the politicians when vacancies occur. By Shane Goldmacher.
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Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year
Hillary Clinton says she made a mistake when she gave speeches on Wall Street after leaving government. Taking money from banks, she writes in her new memoir, created the impression she was in their pocket. Her old boss doesn’t seem to share her concern. By Max Abelson.
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See the Wild Places That May Lose Protections as National Monuments
Four protected areas could shrink and six others could be opened to mining, logging, and fishing, based on new recommendations to President Trump. By Laura Parker.
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U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds
The United States Army’s finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. The Defense Department’s Inspector General, in a June report, said the Army made $2.8 trillion in wrongful adjustments to accounting entries in one quarter alone in 2015, and $6.5 trillion for the year. Yet the Army lacked receipts and invoices to support those numbers or simply made them up.
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Just-Released Docs Show Monsanto ‘Executives Colluding With Corrupted EPA Officials to Manipulate Scientific Data’
The damning documents were released by plaintiffs suing Monsanto in a claim that Roundup caused them to become ill with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Four months after the publication of a batch of internal Monsanto Co. documents stirred international controversy, a new trove of company records was released early Tuesday, providing fresh fuel for a heated global debate over whether or not the agricultural chemical giant suppressed information about the potential dangers of its Roundup herbicide and relied on U.S. regulators for help.
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Baltimore police officials disturbed by body camera video, sources say
Within the Baltimore Police Department, officials have called newly released body camera footage that appears to show officers placing drugs in a car especially disturbing, CBS News homeland security and justice correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.
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Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered
More get-out-of-jail-free cards are being issued by Baltimore prosecutors—and more are likely, after Monday's disclosure of a second police body cam video that defense attorneys say shows cops manufacturing evidence.
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Baltimore prosecutor tosses 34 cases after officer seen planting evidence
A Baltimore prosecutor tossed 34 criminal cases and said that 123 cases are under review after video surfaced of a city police officer planting evidence.
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Elizabeth Warren Tears Apart Another Trump Nominee
Randal Quarles was “visibly shaken” after getting the Warren treatment. By Bess Levin.
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Why the Trump dynasty will last sixteen years
Could a Trump dynasty in the White House survive for three more elections? Post-electoral stress disorder has generated a hysteria still amply manifest. By Edward Luttwak.
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How Scott Pruitt Is Gutting the EPA on Behalf of the Fossil-Fuel Industry
Trump's EPA chief is gutting the agency, defunding science and serving the fossil-fuel industry. By Jeff Goodell.
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Democrats with dreams of impeachment should consider how Iran-Contra turned out
The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm. By Nicole Hemmer.
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Newly declassified memos detail [some] extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying
The memos reviewed by The Hill were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union. By John Solomon.
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Thirteen Trump Scandals You Forgot About
Any other year, one of these could have derailed a presidency. By Sarah Holder.
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As Hackers Target U.S. Voting Machines, We Need Leaders Who’ll Put Country Over Party
We need a paradigm shift by political leaders to protect the vote from cyber hacking. By Karen Hobert Flynn.
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