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2017-10-05George Papadopoulos Becomes First Trump Campaign Official to Plead Guilty in Mueller Probe

trump-pardons mueller-investigation russia-contacts +3

2017-10-03Whitefish Energy Wins $300M No-Bid Puerto Rico Contract Despite 2 Employees

disaster-capitalism corruption no-bid-contracts +2

2017-10-01ICE Credits McKinsey with 'Quantifiable Benefits': Increased Deportations and Reduced Detention Time

immigration-enforcement due-process mckinsey +4

2017-10-01Pete Hegseth accused of sexual assault at Republican conference

sexual-assault settlement pete-hegseth +2

2017-09-29HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns After $1 Million Private Jet Scandal

corruption ethics-violation healthcare +7

2017-09-26Ramaswamy's Axovant Alzheimer drug fails, stock crashes 75% after pump-and-dump

financial-fraud pump-and-dump vivek-ramaswamy +4

2017-09-20Hurricane Maria Devastates Puerto Rico, Exposing Infrastructure Collapse While McKinsey Continues Advising on Privatization and Austerity

disaster-capitalism climate-crisis mckinsey +7

2017-09-13Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Requested Military Jet for European Honeymoon, Request Denied After Scrutiny

ethics-violation misuse-of-funds cabinet-corruption +3

2017-09-07Amazon Launches HQ2 Bidding War—238 Cities Compete to Offer Billions in Subsidies

economic-extraction corporate-welfare race-to-bottom +1

2017-09-07Equifax Finally Discloses Breach 40 Days After Discovery, Exposing Regulatory Capture

regulatory-capture corruption tech +5

2017-09-01Facebook Admits Russians Bought $100,000 in Ads to Influence 2016 Election

foreign-influence election-manipulation congressional-investigation +3

2017-08-31Wells Fargo Revises Fake Account Count to 3.5 Million, Up 67%

corporate-fraud banking-regulation wells-fargo

2017-08-25Facebook Algorithm Amplifies Myanmar Military Hate Speech Enabling Rohingya Genocide

facebook genocide myanmar +8

2017-08-23FTC Approves Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Despite Monopolization Concerns

regulatory-capture antitrust ftc +3

2017-08-21Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Uses Military Jet for Solar Eclipse Viewing Trip to Kentucky

ethics-violation misuse-of-funds cabinet-corruption +2

2017-08-15Trump Defends White Nationalists with "Very Fine People On Both Sides" Remarks

domestic-terrorism alt-right white-nationalism +2

2017-08-12White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville Ends with Heather Heyer Murdered by Neo-Nazi

domestic-terrorism alt-right white-nationalism +2

2017-08-12Nick Fuentes Attends Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville

alt-right white-nationalism extremism

2017-08-01Flock Safety Founded to Deploy Automated License Plate Surveillance in Neighborhoods

surveillance alpr license-plate-readers +2

2017-08-01Courts Strike Down North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering, Legislature Redraws With Explicit Partisan Intent

republican-party voting-rights gerrymandering +2

2017-08-01Equifax Executives Sell $1.8 Million in Stock Days After Discovering Massive Data Breach

regulatory-capture corruption insider-trading +4

2017-07-31V.C. Summer Nuclear Project Abandoned After $9 Billion Failure - Ratepayers Forced to Pay $2.3 Billion for Never-Built Reactors

institutional-capture regulatory-capture corporate-fraud +2

2017-07-28Trump Weaponizes MS-13 Gang to Demonize Central American Immigrants and Justify Mass Deportations

law-enforcement immigration republican-party +4

2017-07-21Mark Esper, Former Raytheon Weapons Lobbyist, Becomes Army Secretary in Revolving Door Appointment

regulatory-capture lobbying pentagon +3

2017-07-19Netanyahu Meets Visegrad Leaders in Budapest Before Hungary and Poland Purchase Pegasus

nso-group pegasus-spyware hungary +4

2017-07-01Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Purges 560,000 Voters in Single Day Using "Exact Match" System

voter-suppression georgia racial-discrimination +2

2017-06-27EU Fines Google Record €2.42B for Search Manipulation Favoring Google Shopping

antitrust google monopolization +5

2017-06-19Citizen Lab Exposes Mexican Government Targeting of Journalists and Activists with Pegasus

press-freedom nso-group pegasus-spyware +3

2017-06-17Trump Orders McGahn to Fire Mueller, Triggering Potential "Saturday Night Massacre"

kleptocracy constitutional-crisis obstruction-of-justice +4

2017-06-16Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives

autonomous-weapons surveillance defense-contractors +2

2017-06-15Kansas City Fed Denies Reserve Trust Master Account Amid Potential Regulatory Capture

regulatory-capture corruption revolving-door +6

2017-06-14DeVos Freezes Borrower Defense Rule Protecting Defrauded Students - States Sue for Unlawful Delay

regulatory-capture for-profit-colleges student-debt +1

2017-06-09Office of Special Counsel Finds White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino Violated Hatch Act with Political Tweet Attacking Congressman

trump-administration ethics-violation social-media +3

2017-06-06Eric Trump Foundation Funneled Cancer Charity Donations to Trump Organization Businesses

trump-organization self-dealing trump-foundation +2

2017-06-06Kansas Legislature Overrides Brownback Veto to Repeal Failed Tax Cuts - Republican-Controlled Legislature Rejects Supply-Side Economics After Devastating 5-Year Experiment

alec republican-party tax-policy +9

2017-06-03Reality Winner Arrested for Leaking Russian Election Interference Report

press-freedom russia election-interference +2

2017-06-01Trump Withdraws from Paris Climate Agreement Isolating America

environmental-destruction climate-change fossil-fuels +2

2017-05-22TC Heartland v. Kraft: Supreme Court Limits Patent Forum Shopping, Curbing Eastern District of Texas Troll Haven

supreme-court patent-abuse judicial-reform +4

2017-05-17Rosenstein Appoints Robert Mueller as Special Counsel for Russia Investigation - Direct Response to Trump's Obstruction

obstruction-of-justice mueller-investigation russia-investigation +2

2017-05-16Boeing Delivers First 737 MAX Despite Internal Safety Concerns About MCAS

boeing 737-max mcas +3

2017-05-15FCC Begins Investigation into Massive Fake Comments Campaign on Net Neutrality Repeal

regulatory-capture telecommunications corporate-manipulation +2

2017-05-13Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability

regulatory-capture corruption tech +4

2017-05-11Trump Creates Presidential Commission on Election Integrity to Investigate Nonexistent Fraud

trump-administration republican-party disinformation +1

2017-05-11Trump Admits to Lester Holt He Fired Comey Because of This Russia Thing - Obstruction Confession on National TV

obstruction-of-justice mueller-investigation russia-investigation +2

2017-05-10Trump Reveals Israeli Classified Intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Oval Office - Day After Comey Firing

russia israel classified-intelligence +3

2017-05-09Trump Fires FBI Director Comey to Stop Russia Investigation, Tells Russians "Pressure Taken Off"

institutional-capture kleptocracy fbi +3

2017-05-02Ed Feulner Returns as Heritage Foundation Interim President After DeMint Ousted for Management Failures

trump-administration conservative-movement heritage-foundation +3

2017-05-01McKinsey Ghostwrites Its Own $2.2 Million ICE Contract Extension: Consulting Firm Defines Its Own Scope of Work

institutional-capture regulatory-capture conflict-of-interest +4

2017-05-01Epstein Attempts to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Russian Affair

corporate-espionage epstein-blackmail gates-russia +2

2017-04-28Kentucky Invests $15 Million in Braidy Industries on Final Day of Legislative Session Without Disclosure

kleptocracy state-capture corporate-welfare +4

2017-04-25DarkMatter Signs Strategic Surveillance Technology Agreement with Huawei, Facilitated by Erik Prince Network

authoritarianism surveillance-technology china +3

2017-04-19Fox News Fires Bill O'Reilly After $13 Million Sexual Harassment Settlements - Trump Had Defended Him

fox-news sexual-harassment trump-defense +2

2017-04-17Boris Epshteyn Leaves Trump White House, Immediately Joins Sinclair Broadcasting as Chief Political Analyst - Direct Trump Propaganda Pipeline

propaganda revolving-door media-consolidation +5

2017-04-16Neil Gorsuch Sells Property to Law Firm CEO Days After Supreme Court Confirmation

supreme-court judicial-capture conflict-of-interest +3

2017-04-15DOJ Begins Surveillance of Washington Post Journalists Reporting on Russia Investigation

press-freedom russia-investigation journalist-surveillance +2

2017-04-11Federal Court Rules Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminatory Against Minorities

voter-suppression voting-rights texas +2

2017-04-08Trump Model Management Shuts Down Amid Federal Investigations

exploitation investigation business-dealings +1

2017-04-07McConnell Invokes Nuclear Option, Eliminates Filibuster for Supreme Court Nominees, Gorsuch Confirmed 54-45

supreme-court institutional-corruption judicial-appointments +2

2017-04-07Taser International Rebrands as Axon, Offers Free Body Cameras to Every US Police Officer in Aggressive Market Expansion

surveillance axon police-technology +3

2017-04-06Ivanka Trump Receives Chinese Trademarks During Xi Jinping Dinner

foreign-influence corruption conflict-of-interest +2

2017-04-06Trump Orders Syria Missile Strike from Mar-a-Lago During State Dinner with Xi Jinping - Military Action as Mar-a-Lago Spectacle

war-powers conflicts-of-interest emoluments +3

2017-04-05Steve Bannon Removed from National Security Council After Unprecedented Political Appointment Sparked Bipartisan Outrage

national-security-council steve-bannon politicization +2

2017-04-01McKinsey Delivers Final Rikers Report After Violence Soars Nearly 50% During Contract Period

prison-industrial-complex mckinsey consulting-scandal +5

2017-03-31Judge Curiel Approves $25 Million Trump University Settlement, Victims to Receive 90% Refunds

accountability fraud consumer-protection +2

2017-03-30McKinsey Proposes 'Detention Savings Opportunities': Cuts to Food, Medical Care, and Guard Supervision for Migrants

immigration-enforcement mckinsey shock-doctrine +5

2017-03-30Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook After Political Donation Controversy

tech-industry political-influence silicon-valley +1

2017-03-28Trump Signs Executive Order Dismantling Obama-Era Climate Regulations

regulatory-capture environmental-policy climate-change +2

2017-03-23GSA deemed Trump Old Post Office lease 'compliant'; agency watchdog later faulted failure to consider Emoluments Clause

oversight emoluments gsa +1

2017-03-22Trump Asks Intelligence Chiefs Coats and Rogers to Publicly Deny Russia Collusion Evidence - Obstruction of Investigation

abuse-of-power obstruction-of-justice russia-investigation +2

2017-03-22Devin Nunes Makes Secret Midnight White House Visit to View Intel, Then Briefs Trump Before Committee - Obstruction of Investigation

congressional-corruption abuse-of-power obstruction-of-justice +2

2017-03-20FBI Director Comey Publicly Confirms Russia Investigation into Trump Campaign in Historic House Testimony

abuse-of-power obstruction-of-justice russia-investigation +2

2017-03-20YouTube Serves Ads on Terror, Hate, Child Exploitation Content; Massive Boycott

content-moderation-failure terrorism advertising +5

2017-03-17Reuters finds Russians paid $98.4 million for Trump-branded Florida condos

money-laundering shell-companies real-estate +2

2017-03-13McKinsey-Designed Fiscal Plan Mandates Devastating Austerity: Pension Cuts, School Closures, Healthcare Privatization, Furloughs

labor-rights institutional-corruption mckinsey +7

2017-03-11Trump Fires Preet Bharara After Broken Promise to Keep Him - Obstruction Amid Trump-Related Investigations

conflicts-of-interest corruption abuse-of-power +2

2017-03-07Michael Flynn Retroactively Registers as Turkey Foreign Agent - $530K Lobbying During Campaign and as National Security Advisor

conflicts-of-interest corruption turkey +3

2017-03-06Trump Signs Travel Ban 2.0 (Executive Order 13780) - Revised Muslim Ban After Courts Block Original

authoritarianism immigration rule-of-law +2

2017-03-04Trump Falsely Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower Based on "A Little Bit of a Hunch"

authoritarianism abuse-of-power disinformation +2

2017-03-02Jeff Sessions Forced to Recuse from Russia Investigation After Perjury About Kislyak Meetings Revealed

obstruction-of-justice russia-investigation perjury +2

2017-03-02Ryan Zinke Opens Public Lands to Extraction While Profiting

environmental-destruction regulatory-capture corruption +2

2017-03-01Peter Thiel Hires Vance at Mithril Capital

venture-capital silicon-valley thiel-network +2

2017-02-28Trump Exploits Navy SEAL Ryan Owens' Widow at Congress Address to Deflect From Botched Yemen Raid He Approved

propaganda accountability yemen +2

2017-02-23Private Prison Stocks Soar as CoreCivic, GEO Donate $2.8M to Trump

campaign-finance pay-to-play corruption +2

2017-02-22Washington Post Launches "Democracy Dies in Darkness" Slogan Under Bezos Ownership

media-capture billionaire-control irony +1

2017-02-21Attorney General Jeff Sessions Rescinds Obama-Era Private Prison Phase-Out, Citing 'Future Needs of Federal Corrections System'

institutional-capture doj trump-administration +4

2017-02-15Cofer Black, Former Blackwater Vice Chairman and CIA Counterterrorism Chief, Joins Burisma Board

regulatory-capture foreign-influence conflicts-of-interest +2

2017-02-14Trump Asks Comey to "Let Flynn Go" in Private Oval Office Meeting

obstruction-of-justice mueller-investigation witness-tampering +3

2017-02-13Michael Flynn Resigns After 24 Days as National Security Advisor - Shortest Tenure Ever - Following Russia Lies to Pence and FBI

obstruction-of-justice russia-investigation perjury +2

2017-02-11Trump Handles North Korea Missile Crisis at Mar-a-Lago in Front of Paying Club Members - Unprecedented Security Breach

conflicts-of-interest corruption emoluments +2

2017-02-08Trump Attacks Nordstrom Using Presidential Office to Promote Daughter Ivanka's Business After Brand Dropped

conflicts-of-interest corruption abuse-of-office +2

2017-02-08Kellyanne Conway Commits 50+ Hatch Act Violations, No Consequences

corruption ethics-violation impunity +2

2017-02-08Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General After Lying Under Oath About Russia Contacts

obstruction-of-justice senate-confirmation russia-investigation +2

2017-02-07Scott Pruitt Dismantles EPA While Taking Industry Money

environmental-destruction regulatory-capture corruption +2

2017-02-07Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary in Historic VP Tie-Breaking Vote - First Ever for Cabinet Nominee

conflicts-of-interest cabinet-corruption education-privatization +2

2017-02-01McKinsey Redirected from Obama-Era ICE Reform to Trump Immigration Crackdown Consulting

institutional-capture ice human-rights +4

2017-02-01Rex Tillerson ExxonMobil CEO Becomes Secretary of State

regulatory-capture foreign-influence oil-industry +2

2017-01-31Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money

dark-money judicial-capture institutional-capture +2

2017-01-30Deutsche Bank fined $630 million for $10 billion Russian money laundering scheme

financial-crime money-laundering russian-money +2

2017-01-30Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Sally Yates for Refusing to Defend Muslim Ban

authoritarianism rule-of-law obstruction-of-justice +3

2017-01-30Executive Order 13771: Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs

executive-order deregulation regulation +3