After suing feds for contempt, Kraft Foods attempts second settlement in wheat market manipulation case
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Kraft Foods Group, Inc. have reached a tentative second out-of-court agreement in an […]
Center for Public Integrity advances fight for facts behind Ukraine aid hold
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. Many details about President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine still haven’t been made public even after his impeachment and Senate trial that led to his acquittal Feb. 5. Looking to find […]
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As sales of the pesticide chlorpyrifos ends in California, maker Corteva announces it will stop producing it.
Sky Chadde is the Midwest Center’s Gannett Agricultural Data Fellow. He can be reached at sky.chadde@investigatemidwest.org This story is embargoed […]
As Trump prepares for acquittal, Public Integrity continues pressing open records case
President Donald Trump’s decision to block military aid to Ukraine last summer roiled his government. Initially it was met with disbelief and then it provoked passionate dissent, stirring concerns — especially at the Pentagon — that what the decision was not only damaging to national security but also illegal because it violated a law requiring […]
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A Texas community chokes on fecal dust from cattle feedlots … And regulators aren’t doing anything about it.
This story was produced in collaboration with The Texas Observer and Food and Environment Reporting Network. This article may not […]
Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone
GRAND ISLE, La. — The Ace of Trade trawler motored toward Dean Blanchard’s dock early last summer in southern Louisiana, its skipper slowly winching its nets into storage. Blanchard’s workers, strengthened by a lifetime at sea, worked shirtless in the humid summer air. It was the beginning of hurricane season, and 2019 was on track […]
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Africa’s producing more fertilizer, but it’s still not getting to all farmers
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. For decades, fertilizer was too expensive for African farmers. It had to be imported, and transportation into the continent was expensive. Now, though, Africa is turning a corner toward producing more of it locally. A Moroccan […]
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Farming’s growing problem
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa — Everywhere Randy Souder looked, he saw mud. On his soggy fields. In the mechanized crannies of his planter. Along the rural road to his house, where he’d left a trail of […]
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Trump Administration officials worried Ukraine aid halt violated spending law
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. When President Donald Trump ordered a halt to aid to Ukraine last summer, defense officials and diplomats worried first that it would undermine U.S. national security. Ukraine is, as some of them later testified before […]
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Timeline: How Trump withheld Ukraine aid
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust. Sign up to receive our stories. The Trump administration’s 55-day halt this summer of hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance and weapons sales to Ukraine was initially unpublicized. What’s now known is that the Defense and State departments, along […]
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