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

The U.S. government has designated more than 800 colleges and universities as minority-serving institutions, either because they were originally created to educate Black or Native American students or ...

2016 collection of research about lead poisoning, including sources of exposure, health effects and policy implications. Mason, L.H.; Harp, J.P.; Han, D.Y. BioMed ...

2015 study published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology that examines how body cameras influence the behavior of police officers during encounters with the public. A September 2015 study ...

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.

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 ...

Military service members exposed to chronic low-level shocks to the head, such as jolts from maneuvering a fighter jet, blasts from firing weapons like heavy mortars, or crashing through the surf in a ...

2014 study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on China’s increasing investments in education, science, engineering and technology. The researchers conclude that China has ...

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 ...

2014 study from Princeton University and the World Bank showing how rising inequality was linked with increased rates of violent crime in Mexico. The study’s authors — Ted Enamorado of Princeton ...

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, ...