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Environmental groups saw revenue spike, spent heavily amid EPA rollbacks

13 December 2019 - Yue Stella Yu

As the climate crisis presses on and the Trump administration works to roll back dozens of environme [...]

Luxury hotel stays, private flights, new nonprofits: Leadership PACs can pay for them

12 December 2019 - Yue Stella Yu

Without restrictions on applying PAC spending to personal use, many prominent political figures are [...]

Corporate PAC cash takes a winding route to Democratic Senate challengers rejecting it

11 December 2019 - Karl Evers-Hillstrom

Top Democratic Senate challengers are rejecting corporate PACs, but that money can still find its wa [...]

Ukrainian foreign influence operation bankrolled by secret donors in coordinated effort

10 December 2019 - Anna Massoglia

A controversial Ukrainian politician's U.S. foreign influence operations were a coordinated eff [...]

‘Dark money’ groups drove support for IRS rule eliminating donor disclosure

10 December 2019 - Karl Evers-Hillstrom

A proposed Trump administration rule to exempt some nonprofits from disclosing their donors to the I [...]

Smartwatches for kids on Amazon can be hacked

14 December 2019

Three devices researchers chose at random from the online market had poor security features, like pa [...]

Baby Yoda: Why you can't get a toy for the holidays

14 December 2019

Official Baby Yoda toys won't be available until next spring, because Disney wanted to keep the [...]

Supreme Court will hear disputes on Trump's financial records

14 December 2019

The Supreme Court's decision is likely to come in the heat of the 2020 presidential reelection [...]

Feds bust illegal streaming site bigger than Netflix

13 December 2019

Site called iStreamItAll offered access to a vast trove of pirated movies and TV shows, ripping off [...]

Can't find a black Santa? There's an app

13 December 2019

A Texas mom wanted her twin sons to see a jolly St. Nick they could relate to, so she developed a wa [...]

Initial China Trade Deal Defuses Tensions, but U.S. Still Has Concerns

14 December 2019 - Alan Rappeport, Ana Swanson, Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley

The agreement includes a commitment by China to buy more agriculture products and to strengthen laws [...]

Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality

13 December 2019 - Elizabeth Preston

The distribution of shells in one population of hermit crabs matched how wealth is shared in some hu [...]

Brexit’s Advance Opens a New Trade Era

14 December 2019 - Peter S. Goodman

The decisive Conservative victory in Britain leaves no doubt that in today’s global equation, nation [...]

Brexit Once Meant a Weaker British Pound, but Not Anymore

14 December 2019 - Amie Tsang and Matt Phillips

Britain’s currency has gained on the prospect that a Conservative victory will remove uncertainty ab [...]

McDonald’s Notches Big Victory in Labor Board Ruling

12 December 2019 - Noam Scheiber

The National Labor Relations Board ordered a judge to approve a settlement that doesn’t consider the [...]