Year of record

2016

100 verified events recorded in 2016.

100 events From Jan 1, 2016 To Dec 13, 2016 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2016-12-13VEB Chairman Gorkov meets Kushner at Trump Tower 4 src
Sergey Gorkov · Jared Kushner · Sergey Kislyak · VEB Bank
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2016-12-08Former Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh Joins Northrop Grumman Board After B-21 Bomber Contract Award 3 src
Mark Welsh · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Wes Bush · +1
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2016-12-01Banking Committee Chairman Shelby Advocates for Financial CHOICE Act to Gut Dodd-Frank 3 src
Richard Shelby · U.S. Senate Banking Committee · Wall Street · Dodd-Frank Act
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2016-12-01Saudi Lobbyists Book 500 Rooms at Trump Hotel After Election 3 src
Saudi Arabia government · Trump International Hotel Washington · Qorvis · MSLGroup · +1
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2016-11-30Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement 3 src
Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy
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2016-11-20Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures 4 src
Morton County Sheriff's Department · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Mandan Rural Fire Department · Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council · +4
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2016-11-19Richard Spencer's NPI Conference: "Hail Trump, Hail Our People" — The Alt-Right Goes Public 2 src
Richard Spencer · National Policy Institute
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2016-11-18Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Cases for $25 Million, 10 Days After Election Victory 3 src
Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Eric Schneiderman
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2016-11-15George Nader Begins Operating MBZ Back Channel to Trump Transition — Phase 2 Transfer Vector Activates 2 src
George Nader · Mohammed bin Zayed · Erik Prince · Steve Bannon · +2
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2016-11-09Private Prison Stocks Surge After Trump Election Victory, CoreCivic Up 43% and GEO Group Up 21% in Single Day 3 src
Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Wall Street investors · +1
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2016-11-04National Enquirer Shreds Trump Documents from Safe After WSJ Inquiry 4 src
Dylan Howard · David Pecker · National Enquirer · American Media Inc. · +3
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2016-11-01Boeing Obtains FAA Approval to Conceal MCAS System from Pilot Manuals and Training 3 src
Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing pilots · Airline pilots · +1
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2016-10-28Corrections Corporation of America Rebrands as CoreCivic After DOJ Phase-Out Announcement and Undercover Exposé 3 src
Corrections Corporation of America · CoreCivic · Damon T. Hininger · Board of Directors
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2016-10-28ProPublica Exposes Facebook's Algorithmic Redlining: Digital Ad Platform Enables Housing Discrimination at Scale 3 src
Facebook · ProPublica · HUD · National Fair Housing Alliance
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2016-10-27Cohen Uses Essential Consultants to Pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 Hush Money 4 src
Michael Cohen · Stormy Daniels · Essential Consultants LLC · Keith Davidson (attorney) · +1
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2016-10-27Federal Jury Acquits Bundy Brothers and Five Others for Armed Occupation of Malheur Wildlife Refuge 8 src
Ammon Bundy · Ryan Bundy · Jeff Banta · Shawna Cox · +5
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2016-10-17Cohen Creates Essential Consultants LLC for Stormy Daniels Payment 4 src
Michael Cohen · Essential Consultants LLC · Stormy Daniels · Donald Trump
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2016-10-15Thiel Announces $1.25M Trump Donation — Eight Days After Scheduled Epstein-Churkin Lunch, Completing His Public Trump Commitment 3 src
Peter Thiel · Make America Number 1 (super PAC) · Trump Victory (joint fundraising committee)
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2016-10-12Stumpf Resigns as CEO, Retains Over $130 Million in Compensation 3 src
John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board · Timothy Sloan
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2016-10-11ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms 3 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1
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2016-10-10Anheuser-Busch InBev Completes $107 Billion SABMiller Acquisition: Beer Industry Consolidates Into Duopoly 3 src
Anheuser-Busch InBev · SABMiller · Molson Coors · Department of Justice · +1
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2016-10-10Carl Icahn Closes Trump Taj Mahal Casino After Prolonged Labor Dispute 3 src
Carl Icahn · Donald Trump · Unite-HERE Local 54 union · Hard Rock International
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2016-10-09Trump Stages Pre-Debate Event with Bill Clinton Accusers 4 src
Donald Trump · Paula Jones · Juanita Broaddrick · Kathleen Willey · +3
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2016-10-08Rumors Surface of Apprentice Outtakes Showing Trump Using N-Word, Burnett Refuses Release 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Burnett
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2016-10-08Saudi Coalition Uses US-Made Bombs to Kill 155 at Yemen Funeral Hall in Sanaa 4 src
Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2
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2016-10-07Republicans Withdraw Support for Trump After Access Hollywood Tape 4 src
Paul Ryan · Reince Priebus · Jason Chaffetz · John McCain · +5
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2016-10-07Scheduled Epstein-Thiel-Churkin Meeting on Access Hollywood Day — Three Subjects, Two Now Dead, Documentary Record Shows Intent Not Execution; Thiel Endorses Trump Six Days Later 4 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Peter Thiel · Vitaly Churkin · Cara Groff (Epstein scheduler)
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2016-10-07Washington Post Releases Access Hollywood Tape 4 src
Donald Trump · Billy Bush · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post
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2016-10-03New York Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Immediately Cease Fundraising 3 src
Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation
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2016-10-01Council of Economic Advisers: Market Power Suppresses Wages, Contributes to $1+ Trillion in Lost Worker Income 3 src
Council of Economic Advisers · Workers · Dominant firms
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2016-10-01Rybolovlev demolishes Trump's former Palm Beach mansion; property later subdivided and sold 3 src
Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump
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2016-09-27Wells Fargo Claws Back $41 Million from Stumpf's Compensation 3 src
John Stumpf · Wells Fargo Board
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2016-09-20CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation 3 src
John Stumpf · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate Banking Committee
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2016-09-16Oliver Stone's "Snowden" Film Brings NSA Whistleblower Story to Mainstream Audiences 3 src
Oliver Stone · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Edward Snowden
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2016-09-13Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post
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2016-09-12Indianapolis Star Investigation Exposes Nassar Abuse After FBI Sat on Allegations for 14 Months 3 src
Indianapolis Star · Larry Nassar · Michigan State University Police · USA Gymnastics · +4
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2016-09-10Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 31 Civilians at Yemen Water Drilling Site in Apparent War Crime 4 src
Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Human Rights Watch
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2016-09-08Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Creating 2 Million Fake Accounts 3 src
Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Richard Cordray
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2016-09-06ITT Technical Institute Closes Permanently After Federal Fraud Findings Leave 35,000 Students With Worthless Degrees 4 src
ITT Technical Institute · Kevin Modany · Daniel Fitzpatrick · U.S. Department of Education · +1
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2016-09-03Standing Rock: Private Security and Police Attack Dakota Access Pipeline Water Protectors 3 src
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Energy Transfer Partners · Private Security Contractors · Morton County Sheriff's Department · +1
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2016-09-01Apollo Global Management Acquires Constellis Holdings (Blackwater Successor) for Approximately $1 Billion 3 src
Constellis Holdings · Apollo Global Management · Blackwater · Triple Canopy
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2016-09-01Facebook Embeds Staff in Trump Campaign Headquarters to Optimize Targeting for Voter Manipulation 4 src
Facebook · Brad Parscale · Trump Campaign · Mark Zuckerberg · +1
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2016-08-31Rep. Tom Price Purchases Discounted Healthcare Stocks While Drafting Industry Legislation 4 src
Tom Price · Chris Collins · Innate Immunotherapeutics · Zimmer Biomet · +1
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2016-08-24Mylan EpiPen Price Increases 550% in Nine Years, CEO Heather Bresch Testifies Before Congress 3 src
Mylan · Heather Bresch · U.S. Congress
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2016-08-21Stone tweets "Podesta's time in the barrel" 47 days before WikiLeaks 4 src
Roger Stone · John Podesta · WikiLeaks
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2016-08-18Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates Issues Memo to Phase Out Federal Private Prisons, Citing Safety Problems and High Costs 3 src
Sally Yates · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · CoreCivic · +2
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2016-08-17Bannon Named Trump Campaign CEO: The Gamergate-to-MAGA Pipeline Is Formalized 3 src
Steve Bannon · Donald Trump · Kellyanne Conway · Robert Mercer · +1
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2016-08-15Raytheon Paveway Bomb Strikes MSF Hospital in Yemen, Killing 11 Including Healthcare Workers 4 src
Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Doctors Without Borders · +1
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2016-08-14Black Ledger Reveals $12.7 Million in Secret Cash Payments to Trump Campaign Chair Manafort 4 src
Paul Manafort · Viktor Yanukovych · Oleg Deripaska · Trump Campaign · +1
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2016-08-10UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware 3 src
Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1
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2016-08-02Manafort shares internal polling data with Russian intelligence 4 src
Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Russian Intelligence Services
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2016-08-01AMI Pays Karen McDougal $150,000 to Kill Story of Trump Affair 5 src
Karen McDougal · American Media Inc. · David Pecker · Dylan Howard · +2
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2016-08-01Stone exchanges private messages with Russian GRU intelligence front Guccifer 2.0 4 src
Roger Stone · Russian GRU intelligence · Guccifer 2.0 persona
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2016-07-29Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Law With "Surgical Precision" Ruling 4 src
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · Diana Gribbon Motz · North Carolina General Assembly
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2016-07-29North Carolina Voter ID Law Struck Down for Targeting African Americans 3 src
North Carolina General Assembly · Governor Pat McCrory · Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1
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2016-07-27Trump Publicly Calls on Russia to Hack Clinton Emails, GRU Begins Targeting Clinton Servers Same Day 4 src
Donald Trump · Russian GRU · Hillary Clinton · Robert Mueller
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2016-07-22WikiLeaks Releases 20,000 Stolen DNC Emails Three Days Before Democratic Convention 4 src
WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Russian GRU · Democratic National Committee · +2
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2016-07-21Peter Thiel Delivers Prime-Time RNC Speech Supporting Trump 3 src
Peter Thiel · Donald Trump · Republican Party
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2016-07-01Harvey Weinstein Hires Black Cube to Suppress Rose McGowan Allegations 4 src
Harvey Weinstein · Black Cube · Rose McGowan · Stella Penn Pechanac · +5
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2016-06-30Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis 5 src
Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government
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2016-06-28Hillbilly Elegy Published - Vance as Trump Critic 4 src
J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Charlie Rose · ABC News
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2016-06-17Kentucky Governor Bevin Seizes Control of Pension Board Through Executive Order 4 src
Matt Bevin · Kentucky Retirement Systems · Thomas K. Elliott · Kentucky Legislature · +1
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2016-06-15Guccifer 2.0 (Russian GRU) Begins Leaking Stolen DNC Emails Hours After Hack Exposure 4 src
Russian GRU · Guccifer 2.0 · Democratic National Committee · WikiLeaks · +1
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2016-06-12Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results 3 src
Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1
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2016-06-09Trump Jr. Accepts Meeting Explicitly Framed as "Russia and Its Government's Support" 3 src
Donald Trump Jr. · Jared Kushner · Paul Manafort · Natalia Veselnitskaya · +3
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2016-06-02Trump Attacks Federal Judge Curiel as "Mexican" Despite Indiana Birth, Paul Ryan Calls It "Textbook Racism" 3 src
Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Paul Ryan
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2016-06-01Paul Manafort Shares Trump Campaign Data with Russian Intelligence 3 src
Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Russian Intelligence
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2016-06-01Trump University Victims Testify to Losing Retirement Savings, Disability Income to Fraudulent Scheme 3 src
Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg · George Hanus
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2016-05-31Judge Unseals Trump University Documents Revealing Predatory Sales Playbook Targeting Vulnerable Consumers 3 src
Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg
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2016-05-20Russian Official Alexander Torshin Meets Donald Trump Jr. at NRA Convention After Requesting Trump Meeting 2 src
Alexander Torshin · Maria Butina · Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · +1
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2016-05-18Trump Promises All Supreme Court Picks Will Come From Federalist Society 3 src
Donald Trump · Leonard Leo · Don McGahn · Neil Gorsuch · +4
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2016-05-17CNP's Secret 2014 Membership Directory Leaked - 413 Conservative Elite Exposed 2 src
Southern Poverty Law Center · Steve Bannon · Kellyanne Conway · Council for National Policy
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2016-05-09Twitter Blocks Intelligence Agencies from Using Dataminr for Social Media Surveillance 3 src
Twitter · Dataminr · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel
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2016-05-01Paul Manafort Shares Trump Campaign Data with Russian Agent Konstantin Kilimnik 4 src
Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Trump Campaign · Russian Intelligence (GRU) · +1
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2016-05-01Puerto Rico Defaults on $422 Million Bond Payment, Triggering Largest Municipal Debt Crisis in U.S. History 12 src
Alejandro García Padilla · Puerto Rico Government Development Bank · Puerto Rico Government · Hedge Fund Creditors
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2016-05-01Roger Stone Meets Russian National Offering Clinton Dirt for $2 Million 3 src
Roger Stone · Michael Caputo · henry-greenberg · Russian Intelligence
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2016-04-27Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months, Judge Calls Him 'Serial Child Molester' 3 src
Dennis Hastert · Thomas Durkin · Scott Cross
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2016-04-03Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks 3 src
Mossack Fonseca · Vladimir Putin · Petro Poroshenko · Nawaz Sharif · +4
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2016-04-01JD Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal 3 src
JD Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital
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2016-03-29Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations 4 src
Eric Schneiderman · Maura Healey · Claude Walker · ExxonMobil · +3
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2016-03-16Obama Nominates Merrick Garland to Supreme Court, McConnell and Senate Republicans Refuse to Hold Hearings or Vote 4 src
Barack Obama · Merrick Garland · Mitch McConnell · Chuck Grassley
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2016-03-15CDC Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Twenty Years After OxyContin Launch 3 src
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2016-03-11Phyllis Schlafly Endorses Trump in Final Political Act, Passing Torch to Populist Movement 3 src
Phyllis Schlafly · Donald Trump · Ted Cruz · Eagle Forum · +2
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2016-03-01FBI Works with Cellebrite to Crack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone After Apple Refuses 4 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Cellebrite · Apple
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2016-03-01Trump Model Management Lawsuit Dismissed on Technicality Despite Evidence 4 src
Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump · Federal Courts · +1
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2016-02-16FBI Orders Apple to Break iPhone Encryption in San Bernardino Case 4 src
Apple · Tim Cook · Federal Bureau of Investigation · James Comey · +1
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2016-02-13Justice Antonin Scalia Dies, McConnell Immediately Vows to Block Any Obama Nominee 4 src
Antonin Scalia · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama
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2016-02-12West Virginia Becomes 26th Right-to-Work State, Overriding Governor Veto with ALEC Model 3 src
West Virginia Legislature · Earl Ray Tomblin · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch Network · +2
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2016-01-28Trump Uses Charity Foundation for Iowa Campaign Event, Violating Tax Law 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Corey Lewandowski
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2016-01-26Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Trump Before Iowa: Liberty University President Makes the Transactional Bargain Explicit 2 src
Jerry Falwell Jr. · Donald Trump · Liberty University · Ted Cruz · +1
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2016-01-05Snyder Finally Declares State of Emergency After Federal Investigation and Public Outcry 3 src
Rick Snyder · Barack Obama · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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2016-01-01ALEC Develops Comprehensive Government Union Reform Act as All-in-One Union Elimination Playbook 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Bob Onder · Missouri GOP · corporate ALEC members
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2016-01-01Cambridge Analytica Deploys Harvested Facebook Data for Trump Campaign Electoral Manipulation 6 src
Cambridge Analytica · Trump Campaign · Alexander Nix · Steve Bannon · +2
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2016-01-01Deutsche Bank Flags Suspicious Trump-Russia Transactions 4 src
Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Russian money launderers · +2
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2016-01-01Grayshift Founded in Atlanta to Develop GrayKey iPhone Unlocking Technology 3 src
Grayshift · David Miles · Braden Thomas · Justin Fisher · +1
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2016-01-01Illicit Fentanyl Overtakes Prescription Opioids as Leading Cause of Overdose Deaths 3 src
Drug Enforcement Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Illicit Fentanyl Suppliers
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2016-01-01J.D. Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal 4 src
J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital
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2016-01-01NRA Spends Record $30-55 Million Supporting Trump, FBI Investigates Russian Money Laundering 4 src
National Rifle Association · Donald Trump · Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · +2
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2016-01-01Whistleblower Alleges Dialysis Giants DaVita and Fresenius Steer Patients Through American Kidney Fund in $247M Kickback Scheme 5 src
DaVita · Fresenius Medical Care · American Kidney Fund · Department of Justice · +1
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2016-01-01YouTube Algorithm Optimizes for Watch Time, Systematically Amplifies Extremism 4 src
YouTube · Google · Guillaume Chaslot · Zeynep Tufekci (researcher)
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