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A top GOP lawmaker is calling on the Department of Defense to pause no-bid contracts through a small-business program for socially and economically disadvantaged companies, noting…

The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable…

Reporting Highlights Operation Gigawatt: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox declared last year that the state would double energy production in the next decade using an “any of…

For more than a century, a smelting plant in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, spewed lead-laced smoke across the city. As the toxic metal drifted toward the ground,…

Reporting Highlights Lead Legacy: For over a century, a smelter and other plants polluted Omaha with 400 million pounds of lead. The city now has the…

For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines. He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19 and…

It was a chilly afternoon in January, just a week after President Donald Trump returned to the White House, when I met Yineska, a Venezuelan mother…

Reporting Highlights Diverted Funds: Christopher Dawson won hundreds of millions in federal contracts by promising to help Native Hawaiians. Instead, prosecutors say, he bought luxury homes.…

This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry. With the U.S. government shut down for multiple…

What Happened: A congressional investigation out today has found that, contrary to the Trump administration’s claims, immigration agents have frequently detained and mistreated U.S. citizens.  The…