Fact-Check: Five Claims From Washington This Week, Examined Against the Record
TIJ tests five public claims from politicians and advocacy groups against the underlying federal record — from Trump's 'roaring economy' to Sanders's 15 million figure.
Campaign Finance Watch: May — Trump-Aligned PACs Hold $400M as Industry Super PACs Reroute the 2026 Midterms
By Eduardo Bacci, The Investigative Journal The first wave of 2026 first-quarter Federal Election Commission filings has confirmed what political operatives in both parties have whispered for months: the money…
Regulatory Roundup: Week of April 27, 2026 — DOT Locks In Department-Wide Rulemaking Reset
The Investigative Journal’s weekly survey of final rules, proposed rulemakings, and agency guidance affecting industry, the workforce, and the federal balance of power. This week’s docket was unusually consequential: the…
Cooking the Climate Books: How the C-Quest Carbon Credit Fraud Exposed a $1.4 Billion Offset Industry Built on Inflated Math
Federal prosecutors, the Verra registry, and the ICVCM have now disqualified the methodologies behind nearly two-thirds of cookstove offsets — yet corporate ESG buyers continue retiring credits the science says…
Capitol Watch: May 1, 2026 — Senate Rejects Iran War Powers Resolution as Farm Bill Clears House
Capitol Hill closes April with a defeated Iran war powers resolution (47-50), passage of the 2026 Farm Bill (224-200), a unanimous Senate ban on prediction-market trading, a 45-day FISA 702…
DOJ Watch: May 1, 2026 — Sinaloa Governor Indicted; Comey, SPLC, NIAID Cases Advance
TIJ's daily federal enforcement digest: SDNY indicts Mexico's Sinaloa governor and nine officials over alleged Sinaloa Cartel protection racket; Comey re-indicted in EDNC; SPLC charged with wire fraud and money-laundering…
Federal Register Watch: May 1, 2026 — CFPB Revisits Small-Business Lending Rule, Education Department Finalizes Federal Loan Overhaul
Today’s Federal Register docket: CFPB Regulation B small-business lending, a final Education Department rule overhauling the Federal Student Loan Program, EPA reconsideration of ethylene oxide sterilization standards, and an NRC…
Morning Wire: May 1, 2026 — SCOTUS Voting Rights Ruling Reshapes Midterms; House Ends DHS Shutdown; Sinaloa Governor Indicted
Overnight: Supreme Court guts a key Voting Rights Act protection in Louisiana v. Callais; House clears DHS funding to end an 11-week shutdown; SDNY indicts a sitting Mexican governor; Trump…
Afternoon Wire: April 30, 2026 — Comey Indicted, Pentagon’s $1.5T Ask, and a Fraying Iran Ceasefire
Today's afternoon briefing: a federal grand jury indicts former FBI Director James Comey, the Pentagon defends its largest peacetime budget request, and the US-Iran ceasefire creaks under strain as CENTCOM…
Think Tank Roundup: Week of April 30 — Carnegie Endowment Iran Analysis Leads the Field
The week ending April 30, 2026 produced an unusually heavy slate of think tank output across the political spectrum, with the ongoing Iran war driving much of the foreign-policy commentary…