We unlock the laws and regulations that define how federal workers have, until recently, typically been hired and fired.

We gathered research to help journalists explain how presidential debates influence voters’ decisions. These papers look at aggressive behavior on stage, the likelihood candidates’ performance will ...

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The Minneapolis-based KARE 11 team’s months-long investigation into allegations of Medicaid fraud at several addiction recovery centers in Minnesota began with a tip, as many investigative stories do.

Rising seas are one of the central impacts of global warming, and they’re not some abstract challenge for a future day: Areas of the United States now routinely have “sunny-day flooding,” with salt ...

We have curated a list of non-government websites with health databases. We’ll continue to update this list. Subscribe. It’s free!Sign up for our free newsletter! You’ll receive a weekly update of ...

Police chases, often initiated over a minor crime or none at all, kill nearly two people a day across the U.S., “and public officials are failing at nearly every level to confront the growing problem, ...

We updated this explainer April 18 with new data on the percentage of non-Hispanic Black, Asian and white undergraduate students who attend Hispanic-serving institutions. As America’s Hispanic ...

We gathered research and interviewed researchers to help reporters cover voters under age 30. Keep reading for insights on their voting habits, colleges’ efforts to raise voting rates and stories ...

Medicare paid health insurers roughly $50 billion from 2018 to 2021 for diagnoses for which “patients received no treatment, or that contradicted their doctors’ views,” write a Wall Street Journal ...

Nonprofit hospitals’ tax exemptions have come under scrutiny by lawmakers and researchers. A JAMA study sheds light on the hospitals’ federal, state and local tax benefits. Subscribe. It’s free!Sign ...