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IANS 12 December 2016
The hacker group "Legion" that broke into the Twitter accounts of the Congress Party, its Vice President Rahul Gandhi, controversial liquor baron Vijay Mallya and now TV journalists Barkha Dutt and Ravish Kumar has finally come out in the open.   In an interview with The Washington...

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Alec MacGillis (ProPublica) 01 December 2016
Update, Nov. 30, 2016: This week, Congress is taking back up a sweeping bill introduced last year that would expand medical research funding while also loosening the regulations for approving new drugs and medical devices. While the legislation has undergone revisions, it still includes many...

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Jessica Huseman  and   Scott Klein (ProPublica) 30 November 2016
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to claim that he would have won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."   There is no evidence that millions of people voted illegally. If there were, we'd have seen some sign of...

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Derek Kravitz (ProPublica) 29 November 2016
The question of whether President-elect Donald Trump will run afoul of federal conflict-of-interest rules or the Constitution because of his extensive foreign investments has been the subject of intense scrutiny among legal and ethics scholars.   Legally, his foreign licensing deals...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2016
While shoppers across the US are walking the aisles or scouring the net for the best deals that they can find, tensions for retailers also run high on this pseudo-holiday. Not only do they have to handle a veritable flood of customers, but they must remain vigilant when it comes to spotting...

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Jesse Eisinger (ProPublica) 24 November 2016
President-elect Donald Trump's transition-team adviser on financial policies and appointments, Paul Atkins, has been depicted as an ideological advocate of small government. But the ways that the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans are likely to approach financial deregulation...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 23 November 2016
U.S. and European counterterror officials are zeroing in on Islamic State masterminds of a terror campaign against Europe that continues despite military setbacks for ISIS in the Middle East.   On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department announced that it had put a suspected plotter of last...

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Daniel Golden (ProPublica) 21 November 2016
This story was co-published with The Guardian.   I would like to express my gratitude to Jared Kushner for reviving interest in my 2006 book, "The Price of Admission." I have never met or spoken with him, and it's rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor. Of course, I...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Ryann Grochowski Jones (ProPublica) 18 November 2016
The number of doctors who each prescribe millions of dollars of medications annually in Medicare's drug program has soared, driven by expensive hepatitis C treatments and rising drug prices overall, federal data obtained by ProPublica shows.   The number of providers who topped the $5...

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Arul Louis (IANS) 17 November 2016
A Chinese company has admitted that it planted a spyware in some Android mobile phones that sent back to China information about the users and text messages.   The admission came after the programme was exposed by a US cyber security firm.   Although the company, Shanghai...

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IANS 16 November 2016
Security firm Kryptowire has identified Android smartphones with a "backdoor" software in the US that collected sensitive personal data and transmitted this data to third-party servers in China without disclosure or the users' consent.   These devices were available through major...

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AC Thompson  and   Ken Schwencke (ProPublica) 16 November 2016
In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews, while crimes against Latinos grew by 35 percent.   Last week, shortly after Donald J. Trump was elected the country's...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 15 November 2016
Despite declarations by the Direct Selling Association (DSA) that it is committed to business ethics, a TINA.org investigation has found that 97 percent of DSA member companies selling nutritional supplements have distributors marketing their products with illegal health claims. Not only are...

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Alec MacGillis (ProPublica) 11 November 2016
In March, I was driving along a road that led from Dayton, Ohio, into its formerly middle-class, now decidedly working-class southwestern suburbs, when I came upon an arresting sight. I was looking for a professional sign-maker who had turned his West Carrollton ranch house into a...

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Lauren Kirchner (ProPublica) 08 November 2016
Late on a hot August night in 2014, Syracuse, New York, police tried to pull over a car driving without headlights. The driver and passenger fled into a darkened park. As the officers chased them on foot, they said they heard a gunshot. The cops never caught the suspects, but recovered a...

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IANS 08 November 2016
Two hackers allegedly from the Netherlands claimed to have broken into seven Indian High Commission websites, publishing online the login details, passwords and database containing names, passport numbers, email-IDs and phone numbers of people of Indian origin, media reported on...

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Robert Faturechi (ProPublica)  and   Eric Lipton (The New York Times) 07 November 2016
This story was co-published with The New York Times.   Big-money corporate lobbying has reached into one of the most obscure corners of state government: the offices of secretaries of state, the people charged with running elections impartially.   The targeting of secretaries...

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Ryan Gabrielson (ProPublica) 03 November 2016
Years after the Las Vegas crime lab wanted to replace faulty police drug kits, they are still used in thousands of convictions.   This story was co-published with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.   At the outset of the 1990s, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Depa rtment began...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 20 October 2016
This story was co-published with Frontline.   Almost a year after Islamic State terrorists killed 130 people in Paris, U.S. intelligence agencies have identified one of the suspected masterminds of that plot and a follow-up attack in Brussels.   U.S. counterterror officials...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 19 October 2016
This story was co-published with Frontline.   Update, Oct. 18, 2016: This story has been updated to include additional information about the questioning and subsequent release of Dahmani in August 2015 by counterterror officials.   In June of 2015, a Belgian ex-convict...

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