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News Articles: Investigations

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger was sworn in on July 23 after a nationwide search.

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  • National Security

A year after the darkest day for Capitol Police, its new chief focuses on rebuilding

Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger has been on the job less than six months. He hopes to lead a new chapter at the embattled agency.

January 03, 2022
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
In this aerial photo released by the Chin Human Rights Organization, fires destroy numerous buildings in the town of Thantlang in Chin State in northwest Myanmar, on Dec. 4, 2021.

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  • Asia

The Myanmar military is employing a familiar strategy of massacres and burnings

The massacres and scorched-earth tactics represent the latest escalation in the military's violence against both civilians and the growing opposition to the military's February coup.

December 30, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Proud Boys walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. A federal judge has refused to dismiss an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the group with conspiring to attack the Capitol.

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  • National

Judge refuses to dismiss indictment against alleged Proud Boys leaders

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on Tuesday rejected defense attorneys' arguments that the four men are charged with conduct that is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.

December 29, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Daisy Hohman was separated from her three children for 20 months when they were placed in foster care. When Hohman was reunited with her children, she received a bill of nearly $20,000 for foster care from her Minnesota county.

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  • Investigations

States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay

In every state, governments charge parents for the cost of foster care when children are taken away. When that happens, NPR found, poor parents can't make ends meet, so families are kept apart longer.

December 27, 2021
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro,
  • Teresa Wiltz, POLITICO,
  • and 1 more
Leo Perez played football in college and believes he may struggle with CTE.

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  • Investigations

Meet 4 people who worry about CTE, but never played in the NFL

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is infamous in the NFL. But there's a quiet population of everyday people who never played pro sports yet fear CTE. Here are some of their stories.

December 23, 2021
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
The degenerative brain condition CTE can be diagnosed only through autopsy. But there's a quiet population of everyday people afraid they have it — and they're turning to dubious treatments.

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  • Investigations

Everyday people fear they have CTE. A dubious market has sprung up to treat them

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) goes far beyond the NFL. Everyday men and women worry they have the fatal disease, and they've turned to questionable brain products for help.

December 23, 2021
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
A sign is posted in front of a Walmart store in American Canyon, Calif. The state has filed a lawsuit against Walmart for allegedly disposing of hazardous waste, state officials announced.

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  • Business

Walmart sued for allegedly dumping hazardous waste in California

Investigators said inspections of trash compactors from Walmart stores over the last six years found dozens of items classified as either hazardous waste or customer records with personal information.

December 20, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
"I could be out next week without a place to live," Mary Hunt worried when an NPR reporter visited. Hunt doesn't own the piece of land, making Havenpark Communities free to tell her to get out.

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  • Investigations

How the government helps investors buy mobile home parks, raise rent and evict people

Investors and companies are swooping in to buy mobile home parks. They raise fees and rents, and evict people who can't pay — using billions of dollars' worth of low interest, government-backed loans.

December 20, 2021
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By:
  • Chris Arnold,
  • Robert Benincasa,
  • and 1 more
Elizabeth Holmes walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Dec. 17, 2021.

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  • Technology

Jurors to weigh Elizabeth Holmes' fate after a 15-week fraud trial

Deliberations are set to begin Monday in a trial that will determine whether the disgraced former CEO of the biotech startup Theranos faces possible prison time or walks free.

December 19, 2021
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Striking Kellogg's workers stand outside the Omaha, Neb., cereal plant on, Dec. 2. The company reached a new tentative agreement on Thursday, with its 1,400 cereal plant workers that could bring an end to the strike that began Oct. 5.

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  • Business

Kellogg's workers will vote on another tentative deal, but the strike may still go on

Union negotiators and company officials have reached another possible deal to end the months-long strike by 1,400 workers — but there are signs of opposition to the agreement.

December 17, 2021
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
GPB  NPR

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  • Television

Peloton pulls ad featuring actor Chris Noth after he's accused of sexual assault

The Sex and the City star told The Hollywood Reporter that the allegations are "categorically false." The ad that was withdrawn had been viewed more than 3 million times online.

December 17, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Charleston, S.C., has one of the highest material standards of living in the U.S. for college graduates.

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  • Economy

The best and worst places to live if you only care about money

A new study looks at the finances of 3 million households over the course of a year. It finds significant differences in the standard of living across America.

December 14, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
Kellogg's Cereal plant workers demonstrate in front of the Kellogg's Cereal Plant on Oct. 7, 2021 in Battle Creek, Mich. Workers at Kellogg's cereal plants are striking over the loss of premium health care, holiday and vacation pay, and reduced retirement benefits.

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  • National

Redditors are spamming Kellogg's job portal in solidarity with its striking workers

Temporary employees have been working at cereal plants across Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee since the strike began in October.

December 10, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Kellogg announced plans to permanently replace striking workers who rejected a proposed contract. The walkout started Oct. 5.

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  • National

Kellogg to hire replacements for striking workers who rejected a proposed contract

Temporary employees have been working at the company's cereal plants across Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee after the strike began in October.

December 08, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Elizabeth Holmes walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Monday. Holmes is accused of duping elite financial backers, customers and patients into believing that her startup was about to revolutionize medicine.

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  • Business

Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes takes the witness stand in her fraud trial

Holmes admitted Tuesday that she put Pfizer letterhead on a document for potential business partners and investors without the pharma giant's consent. She's charged with duping investors and patients.

November 24, 2021
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
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