The Center for Public Integrity

When Republican presidential candidates take the stage to debate each other tonight in Nevada – the foreclosure capital of a foreclosure-ravaged nation – beleaguered homeowners may not like what they hear.

Members of the congressional Super Committee have received more than $300,000 from 93 special interests in just six weeks since they were appointed.

After the emergence of Super PACs that followed recent court cases, political donors are nearly free to give as they choose, with their decisions guided mainly by how they want to direct their money. Here are a sample of donation goals and the options for achieving them.

Outside groups are spending millions of dollars to influence voters in races where the candidates are vastly out-spent and out-gunned with negative ads.

iWatch News tells the inside story of the rampant mortgage fraud that led to the financial meltdown of 2008 and the near-collapse of the U.S. economy.

Rick Perry said he would “create another 250,000 jobs by getting the EPA out of the way” of natural gas drilling.

A new study comparing digital mammography with less expensive film mammography found that the two types of breast cancer screens are equally effective at detecting cancers in most women, underscoring the conclusions reached by a recent iWatch News investigation.

Today we continue our “Ask Wendell” series with a bit of guidance from a former insider — that would be me — on how to interact with insurance companies and hopefully hold them accountable for their actions.

The winners of the 2011 Daniel Pearl Awards were announced today at the seventh Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kiev, Ukraine. The top exposés deal with offshore crime networks and international sex trafficking.

At first sight, it’s hard to understand why the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and clinic in Louisiana, would lobby the Federal Communications Commission.

The Pentagon, which previously warned that reliable military spending figures could not be produced until 2017, has discovered that financial ledgers are in worse shape than expected and it may need to spend a billion dollars more to make DOD’s financial accounting credible, according to defense off...

House Republicans on Friday succeeded in championing legislation that would wrest regulation of coal ash from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to the states, who will have the authority to regulate the often hazardous residue at power plants as if it were municipal garbage.

As it scrambled to save the flagship company of the Obama administration's green energy program, the Energy Department ignored repeated warnings from top Treasury Department officials that it was not following guidelines in re

The latest idea for jump-starting the economy? A new highway spending bill. But as iWatch News reported in 2009, such efforts have traditionally been loaded up with pork and loaded down by thousands of lobbyists.