Investigative Journalism & In-Depth Reporting
Data-driven weekly and monthly digests analyzing public records, spending, and filings
Two new Trump executive orders top the Federal Register: realigning the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule with peer nations and rescinding 50-year-old off-road vehicle restrictions. The SEC moves to rescind climate…
The Defense Department transmitted ten arms-sales notifications to Congress, the CFTC issued a substituted-compliance order for Goldman Sachs Paris, and OFAC added counterterrorism designations — a snapshot of the May…
The Investigative Journal’s weekly accountability scan of the tax-exempt sector — drawing from IRS Form 990 filings, ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer, state attorney general charity divisions, and federal court records. A…
Commerce opens the Section 232 pharmaceutical onshoring window; Treasury, Labor, and HHS propose new fertility excepted-benefit category; EPA, FCC, DEA, and CBP rules — May 13 Federal Register summary.
TIJ's weekly federal spending review: a $2.3B Virginia-class submarine modification, $833M for ESSM Block II missiles, $407M for Aegis Guam, and GAO's $186B improper-payments tally.
OCC interchange-fee preemption, SEC semiannual reporting proposal, CFPB Section 1071 final rule, HHS Section 504 deadline extension, EPA TCE postponement and more — the week of May 4–11, 2026 in…
A federal indictment of the SPLC, a $6.5M state civil case in Minneapolis, and a stubborn IRS enforcement gap on 501(c)(4) political nonprofits.
Federal agencies booked $186 billion in improper payments in FY 2025, GAO finds, even as the Pentagon, DOE, and FEMA close out multi-billion-dollar contract and grant cycles.
BLM rescinds Biden-era public-lands conservation rule, HHS rolls back child-care and Head Start mandates, CFTC updates swap-clearing rules for the CAD/MXN benchmark transition, FDA opens a drug-repurposing docket, and PBGC…
ATF files a final rule and 14+ proposed rules in a single day, FDA proposes stripping 'gender' from Title 21 under EO 14168, Treasury issues a direct final deregulatory rule,…