Background on the investigation, which the FDIC formed a special committee to oversee, here: wsj.com/finance/regula…

Cleary Gottlieb has completed a report on its investigation into the FDIC’s workplace culture. The law firm has briefed the FDIC board on the report, which is now going through a redactions process for privacy concerns and is expected to be made public next week.

Use our migrant child labor data!

More children are crossing the border on their own than ever before, and thousands are ending up doing dangerous, illegal jobs.

We sued the government for a huge trove of data about these kids, and shared it all here: github.com/nytimes/hhs-ch…

NEW: Border communities in Texas have purchased a technology that tracks people through their Bluetooth and WiFi signals. It can track you through your wireless earbuds. The product is called Trafficatch & it's integrated into license plate reader systems
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This is amazing news for the bureau! Congratulations to the great Aruna Viswanatha!

News: U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed in February—but the finding doesn't dispute Putin’s ultimate culpability for his death. wsj.com/world/russia/a…

Scoop from Andrew Restuccia Nick Timiraos and Alex Leary: Donald Trump’s allies are quietly drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the Federal Reserve’s independence if the former president wins a second term wsj.com/economy/centra…

The DOJ is conducting a criminal investigation into McKinsey over its past role advising opioid manufacturers on how to boost sales: wsj.com/articles/mckin…

Our national, expensive domestic PPE gambit: Two years after a showy groundbreaking, a $350 million medical gloves plant in Baltimore sits empty.

Great accountability journalism from the ⁦⁦The Baltimore Banner⁩. thebaltimorebanner.com/article/baltim…

smart piece notus.org/money/american…

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is in custody on espionage charges, makes a heart-shaped gesture behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants as he attends a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva

The rich are just like you and me. No, just kidding. Here's Laura Nahmias and Eliyahu Kamisher on a choreography of private jets (and luxury SUVs idling by the George Washington Bridge) that lets our ultrarich neighbors avoid New York's taxes bloomberg.com/news/features/…

“I pick and choose my battles. And I’m willing to take a punch for the long haul. I didn’t write a book. Could have. I didn’t,” Reince Priebus tells ⁦John McCormick⁩. wsj.com/politics/polic…

Not the usual programming but this article in WSJ. Magazine about Taylor Swift’s publicist Tree Paine is so good.

“The story had all the makings of a public relations nightmare: (1) Celebrity family member allegedly behaves badly while (2) disembarking from a luxury yacht, resulting…

Follow Brody Mullins, who after 18 years of thoroughly investigating the matter has decided to join this platform.

Amazon has for years been running a secret operation that sells around $1M a year through e-commerce marketplaces like eBay and Walmart to gather intel on its competitors. Fascinating story by Dana Mattioli Sarah Nassauer wsj.com/business/retai…

'You’re writing that the President’s personal attorney paid hush money to an adult film star and director. That in and of itself, is not something that I ever expected to be writing as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.'

Jenn has been such a force in the The Wall Street Journal newsroom that it’s impossible to imagine the place without her. She is fearless, hardworking and cares so deeply about her reporters and their stories. I remember her calling me once to say she’d been up all night worrying about one part of…

For more than a year, MA State Police abandoned criminal case files — incl. rape kit components and homicide evidence — in the ruins of a former center for disabled kids. The Globe found least one unsolved murder among the cases left behind. w/ @draillih:

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