The Real Reason State Farm Won’t Sell Home Insurance in California Anymore

fee.org State Farm announced last week it will no longer accept homeowner insurance applications in California , where it has long been a leading insurance provider. In , America’s…

EvenUp, which uses AI to generate legal documents for personal injury cases, raised a $50.5M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $325M valuation

techcrunch.com Millions of personal injury cases are settled in the U.S. every year, as few go to trial — but the vast majority are kept under wraps. This leaves lawyers guessing what they…

Big fish

morningbrew.com Unpacking the financial barriers that keep people down. Some people don’t pay their fair share of taxes. There, we said it. 🙊 We’re not talking about the nation’s poorest or…

Clarence Thomas Asked for an Extension on His Financial Disclosures, Which Probably Means Harlan Crow Bought Him an Island

vanityfair.com Earlier this year ProPublica reported, over the course of several stories, that GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow has been showering Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas with…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas got an extension to file his financial disclosure forms this year

businessinsider.com US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has faced criticism over his cozy relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images Clarence Thomas…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas postpones annual financial disclosure amid donor controversy

cnbc.com Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas arrives for the swearing in ceremony of Judge Neil Gorsuch as an Associate Supreme Court Justice in the Rose Garden of the…

Sundance Institute’s Carrie Lozano Joins ITVS as President and CEO

thewrap.com Carrie Lozano was named ITVS president and CEO Wednesday to succeed Sally Jo Fifer, who had held the position for 22 years. Lozano joins from the Sundance Institute, where…

Sundance Institute’s Carrie Lozano Named President & CEO Of ITVS

deadline.com ITVS today announced the appointment of Carrie Lozano as the organization’s new president and CEO, succeeding longtime chief Holly Jo Fifer. Lozano, an Emmy and…

Smith Richards swaps Chicago Tribune for ProPublica

talkingbiznews.com The following excerpt was sent out from ProPublica: ProPublica announced Friday that reporter Jennifer Smith Richards is joining its Midwest newsroom. She starts on June 14.…

New Supreme Court financial reports set for release amid increased ethics scrutiny

nbcnews.com Create your free profile or log in to save this article Create your free profile or log in to save this article WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's recently restated commitment…

Billionaire Harlan Crow's lawyer agrees to speak with Senate panel probing Clarence Thomas gifts

nbcnews.com A lawyer for Republican billionaire donor Harlan Crow has agreed to speak with the staff for the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to questions about his relationship…

Lawyer for billionaire linked to US Justice Thomas offers to meet Senate staff

aol.com A lawyer for Texas billionaire Harlan Crow has offered to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee staff to discuss the panel's concerns over his ties to conservative U.S.…

Nan Goldin versus the Sacklers

marketplace.org Opiates — drugs derived from opium —have been well known for their ability to treat pain for thousands of years. During the Civil War in the U.S., the Union Army even handed…

Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

theguardian.com Even amid the cacophony of social media, most journalism is met with a shrug or a murmur. But ​one story the Guardian published 10 years ago today exploded with the force of…

NYC's child protection agency lobbying to weaken parents' rights bill

reason.com Child welfare agents in New York may soon have to tell parents their rights before attempting a home search. However, while this parental rights legislation has passed with…

Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Return $550K in FTX Donations

decrypt.co The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations it received from FTX under the leadership of founder and former CEO Sam…

Right-Wing Haters Rely on Cowardice Like Target's

latimes.com If there’s a company in America you’d expect to have the gumption and spirit to see off a stupid and specious attack on the selling of LGBTQ+-themed merchandise for Pride…

ProPublica Recycles Old Clarence Thomas News

wsj.com The first attack in the left’s spring offensive against the U.S. Supreme Court was an April 6 ProPublica hit piece about Justice Clarence Thomas . The site quotes “ethics…

Crypto’s Richest Man Is Waiting Out the Chaos

news.yahoo.com There was a moment, late last fall, when Changpeng Zhao seemed like the smartest guy in crypto. The news was sudden and definitive: Binance, Zhao’s international trading…

Google opposed a shareholder proposal asking for more transparency around its AI algorithms

businessinsider.com CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O conference. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google has opposed a shareholder's call for more transparency around its algorithms. The…

New Clarence Thomas Podcast Debuts Amid the Justice’s Season of Scandal: “A Man Who Feels He’s Under Siege”

vanityfair.com In early April, when ProPublica revealed Clarence Thomas’s repertoire of undisclosed luxury trips paid for by the Dallas billionaire and GOP mega-donor Harlan Crow, it…

Miles-long freight trains cause problems for communities near railroad crossings

pbs.org Freight trains are getting longer in the U.S. with some stretching for two or three miles. Longer trains allow for more goods to move more efficiently, lowering fuel costs…

Feds Sue Ex-Billionaire W.Va. Governor's Family Mining Companies For Unpaid Safety Fines

forbes.com The Justice Department on Wednesday sued the son of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) and several of the family’s coal mining businesses for more than $7.6 million in…

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: Railroad safety is still a big concern

aol.com US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is ramping up pressure on the country's largest freight railroads to improve safety after a series of high-profile derailments. "I…

Spurred by Uvalde, Texas Legislature passes bill to finally close 'dead suspect loophole'

reason.com Following outrage over the lack of transparency surrounding the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last year, the Texas legislature passed a bill Monday to close a notorious…

We’re Free Filin’? Assessing The IRS’s Direct-File Report

forbes.com Former IRS Commissioner David Kautter, now with RSM, discusses the recently released report on the feasibility of an IRS-run direct file program. This transcript has been…

Delta’s carbon-neutral pledge is ‘greenwashing,’ California lawsuit says

washingtonpost.com Delta Air Lines should pay damages to customers for misrepresenting itself as a carbon-neutral airline in marketing campaigns and advertisements that encouraged consumers to…

How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions

niemanlab.org This story was originally published by ProPublica. Spanish-speaking dairy farm workers in Wisconsin, many of them undocumented immigrants, are not regular readers of our…

Harlan Crow has a new deadline

msnbc.com A week ago, I wrote that Harlan Crow was practically begging the Senate Judiciary Committee for a subpoena. It looks like he’ll have to beg a little harder. Recall that…

Congress has power to reform Supreme Court, Sen. Whitehouse says

politico.com Congress “absolutely can” reform Supreme Court ethics rules, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said, despite some arguments that Congressional interference would be a violation of the…

Analysis: Health insurance claim denials are on the rise, to the detriment of patients

pbs.org Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is…

Denials of Health Insurance Claims Are Rising

nakedcapitalism.com Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is…