Universities used millions of dollars from Big Oil to fund research promoting natural gas as a "clean" alternative to oil and coal and downplaying the negative impacts of fossil fuel emissions.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
In a battle for truth in a small Montana mining town, newly revealed records show how the EPA sided with polluters
New research shows a striking pattern of artificial shifting of paper profits to tax havens by multinational corporations, which has been relentless since the 1980s.
Five states now have elected or appointed Secretaries of State who have denied that Biden won the 2020 election, and they are in charge of their state's voting systems.
A bill introduced by Florida Republicans would make it easier for DeSantis to sue the press and stifle investigative reporting. Definitely unconstitutional.
As president, Nikki Haley would push forward the same politics of lies and division that Trump used, just in a deceptively softer voice.
A watchdog group tracked Trump money as it passed from his fund through an allied conservative group, to a shell company and then to contractors and individuals involved in the Arizona audit.
Thanks to the increasingly commingled worlds of politics and popular entertainment, the State of the Union address has devolved into something that resembles an awards show or grand fund-raising gala, except with hecklers.
Corporations that pledged to stop funding members of the "sedition caucus," those who objected to certifying the election, are quietly finding ways to give again.
Congress outlawed tax deductions on “wash sales” in 1921, but Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.
A study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found a link between dropping permit requirements for carrying concealed weapons and increased police shootings with civilian victims.
The federal government paid more than $478 billion from 2015 to 2021 in farm subsidies for crop insurance, disasters, conservation payments. And the top 1% collected 27% of the total.
In a dizzying display of twisted "logic," the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are not requiring repayments of funds stolen through rampant overbilling by Medicare Advantage plans.
The wife of Chief Justice John Roberts, like insurrectionist Ginni Thomas, apparently has been utilizing her position of being "married to the Court" for financial advantage.
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association has spent more than a decade actively recruiting and training sheriffs to believe that their office is more powerful than the president.
The burners under the pot of questions and investigations surrounding the lies and possible crimes of George Santos appear to have been turned up full blast.
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