Recent articles from publications based in United States.
ProPublicaby Andy Mannix10d ago
Reporting Highlights - Inflated Claims: HSI deployed its tech platform to find noncitizens on voter rolls, despite warnings from agency insiders that it would lead to an “ungodly” number of false...
Atlas Obscuraby Holyn Thigpen10d ago
Catacombs—underground rooms and tunnels used as cemeteries—date back to first-century Rome, but the most famous (and infamous) were created across Europe in the 17th century.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova10d ago
Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success By Maria Popova Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way of practicing the possible into the real.
SpaceNewsby Novaspace10d ago
Paris, France | August 2026 – Novaspace’s latest In-Orbit Services Markets report projects that emerging in-orbit services will generate approximately $3 billion in cumulative service revenues over...
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News10d ago
Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in turn connected in vast networks that control brain functions such as...
ProPublicaby Ellis Simani10d ago
Reporting Highlights - Philanthropy’s Gatekeepers: Donor-advised fund sponsors control $327 billion in giving, granting them vast power to decide which charities can receive donor dollars.
Gristby Sachi Kitajima Mulkey10d ago
Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same question.
Gristby Frida Garza10d ago
July was the hottest month on record in the United States, with three heat domes — slow-moving, high-pressure systems that trap heat and humidity in place — afflicting large swaths of the country.
War on the Rocksby Morgan D. Bazilian10d ago
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ICIJby Thomas Rowley10d ago
The Kazakh government is claiming in a confidential arbitration that international oil giants awarded $10.7 billion in contracts at the Kashagan oil field which had been compromised by self-dealing...
Defense Oneby Thomas Dolzall, Forecast International11d ago
New US security entities hint at more Latin American operations A new task force and coordinating body suggest SOUTHCOM senses a need for cooperation in the region.
Defense Oneby Patrick Tucker11d ago
As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns The White House revives “privateering for the digital age” by authorizing cyber firms to strike foreign targets.
Defense Oneby Thomas Novelly11d ago
Intel ops are underway at Space Command’s nascent Alabama HQ Alabama landed SPACECOM after a years-long political fight. Now it’s getting off the ground. HUNTSVILLE, Ala.
OCCRP11d ago
Reported by A former Brooklyn bank manager was sentenced to 18 months in prison for helping an international criminal syndicate launder millions of dollars derived from a sprawling $10.6 billion...
The Marshall Projectby Ivy Scott11d ago
The Marshall Project has been investigating the effects of extreme heat on prisons and jails for nearly a decade.
Science Newsby Emily Conover11d ago
A key facet of a proton’s identity can be traced to the glue that holds it together. A new study suggests that a property called the baryon number — a defining characteristic of protons and related...
Longreadsby Carolyn Wells11d ago
With no secondary school in the southern half of the Isle of Mull, children must leave home for the mainland at the age of eleven, living in a youth hostel during the school week.
Atlas Obscuraby Louise Story11d ago
There is a version of Halloween tourism that involves a man in a rubber mask jumping out from behind a plywood wall. It has its pleasures. It is not this. The places below are real.
OCCRP11d ago
Reported by After OCCRP and partners published an investigation in March exposing how Europe’s largest alumina refinery was feeding into a supply chain linked to Russian weapons manufacturers, the...
OCCRP11d ago
Reported by Secret audio recordings captured on a device hidden in a sock, along with text messages presented in a Maltese courtroom, laid bare the mechanics behind the 2017 assassination of...
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