Politics & GovernmentThe Biden administration, Congress and the 2022 midterms. The largest section, and the archive’s spine.All 263 →
Letter backs Beccia on corruption; Independent reported nearly $2 million in candidate loansA Marblehead reader endorsed the MA-06 candidate for his pledge to fight insider trading by government officials. The Independent's reporting puts nearly $2 million of his campaign's money in loans from the candidate - and the FEC snapshot Daily Pol reviewed cannot pair its figures to its labels.Education disagreed with GAO's coordination recommendation; report records six rounds of servicer questions over two monthsGAO recommended formal criteria for early coordination on a portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion. Education disagreed, saying criteria would slow implementation. All four servicers told GAO that instruction could be improved if Education coordinated with them before or immediately after requesting a change.White House says U.S. is investing $2 billion in mining; two of the announcements describe conditional loansThe fact sheet says the Department of War is investing $1.4 billion into Sila Nanotechnologies. The Office of Strategic Capital's own release on that commitment describes steps the company must still take to reach financial close, and Niron Magnetics describes its $150 million as a conditional commitment subject to due diligence.
Crime & JusticeCourt cases, police reports and missing-persons coverage, including cases the site followed for months.All 219 →
Six sentenced in Arizona-to-Minnesota fentanyl case, from 180 months to time servedThe U.S. Attorney's announcement was summed at 540 months. The six individual dispositions, set against U.S. Sentencing Commission data, run from 15 years to no additional custody.Federal indictment says Santa Ana food truck redeemed about $640,924 in SNAP benefits over 12 monthsProsecutors treat the transaction pattern itself as the evidence. The checkable record behind that method is a 2018 GAO report finding that the agency which authorizes retailers was not using its own risk data to decide who keeps that authorization.Border case filings climbed in a border district where weapons prosecutions tracked 40% lowerThe weekly number an office publicizes counts charges filed. Reporting on the same district records drug, weapons, white-collar and child-exploitation prosecutions moving the other way - and the anchor release could not be verified.
Human InterestLocal incidents, workplace and consumer run-ins, and human oddity - stories whose headlines deliberately withhold their subject.All 141 →
Something Terrifying Happens At Airport When Woman Shows Up LateWhen a traveler did not get her way, she was caught on camera having a temper tantrum at an airport in Mexico City and even assaulting an Emirates check-in agent. On Nov. 1, a video of a traveler…Horrific Discovery Shut Down Trick-or-Treating In Michigan NeighborhoodThis year's trick-or-treat events in a Michigan neighborhood were canceled due to fears that cockroaches would accompany trick-or-treaters home from the neighborhood's vacant house. "It doesn’t…People Flee Airport After Shocking Discovery In Terminal 8After at least four people, including one who was in "grave condition," became ill from what appeared to be a carbon dioxide leak, Los Angeles International Airport evacuated a terminal on…
Health & MedicineCOVID-19 policy, vaccine mandates, the FDA and public-health warnings - the pandemic beat as it ran.All 134 →
WHO counts 1,801 Ebola deaths in Congo as the record shows no vote on a $1.4 billion US requestThe State Department said it intends to provide $242 million more, the Jamaica Observer reported. The underlying request went to Congress on June 24 alongside a $67.1 billion Pentagon line, and no enactment appears in the record this desk was able to reach.CDC's provisional table lists 13 Candida auris cases in Washington and no screening figureThe 13 cited in local coverage is the clinical column of CDC's weekly notifiable-disease table. In the two 2026 weeks where a Washington screening row appears in the record, that column returns a flag instead of a number, while the national screening total stands at 3,325.Louisiana counts 5 deaths in 9 Vibrio vulnificus cases, against its own 1-in-5 fatality figureThe Louisiana Department of Health's Aug. 6 advisory carries both numbers. The gap may point at how cases are counted rather than at a deadlier bug - and the state's nine cases all sit in the lower-fatality of the two exposure categories the national analysis reports.
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