We unlock the laws and regulations that define how federal workers have, until recently, typically been hired and fired.

The two-part series, “Right to Remain Secret,” won the 2025 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting on April 3. Katey Rusch and Casey Smith were students in the University of California, ...

2016 collection of research about lead poisoning, including sources of exposure, health effects and policy implications. Mason, L.H.; Harp, J.P.; Han, D.Y. BioMed ...

The Minneapolis-based KARE 11 team’s months-long investigation into allegations of Medicaid fraud at several addiction recovery centers in Minnesota began with a tip, as many investigative stories do.

Rising seas are one of the central impacts of global warming, and they’re not some abstract challenge for a future day: Areas of the United States now routinely have “sunny-day flooding,” with salt ...

2015 study published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology that examines how body cameras influence the behavior of police officers during encounters with the public. A September 2015 study ...

Police chases, often initiated over a minor crime or none at all, kill nearly two people a day across the U.S., “and public officials are failing at nearly every level to confront the growing problem, ...

Military service members exposed to chronic low-level shocks to the head, such as jolts from maneuvering a fighter jet, blasts from firing weapons like heavy mortars, or crashing through the surf in a ...

2014 study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on China’s increasing investments in education, science, engineering and technology. The researchers conclude that China has ...

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2013 selection of research on the impacts of the nuclear accident, ongoing safety concerns and the potential economic consequences of the Games. For both residents of Japan and visitors to the country ...