May 15, 2017 Archives

Week of May 15, 2017 Archives

RCI - Other Investigations

Monday, May 15

Bin Laden's Son Poised to Become Al Qaeda Leader, Letters Reveal

"60 Minutes"

Behind Rise of Ransomware Lies the Rise of Bitcoin

Lionel Laurent, Bloomberg Gadfly

Why Is Harvard's Laurence Tribe Sharing Anti-Trump Conspiracies?

Buzzfeed

$697,177 in Tax Dollars for a 'Climate-Change Musical'

Miller, Wall Street Journal

How $74 Billion in Bonds Bankrupted Puerto Rico

Braun & Levin, Bloomberg

Pentagon Wants Machine Learning to Drive Drone Hunt for ISIS

Defense One

Email Shows Academic Effort to Thwart Voter Fraud Commission

Free Beacon

Reckless Stock Trading Leaves Congress Rife With Conflicts

Severns, Politico

Tuesday, May 16

Screenshots Surface of Demeaning Yelp Reviews by Yale Dean

Yale Daily News

Phoenix Trump Nazi Billboard Funded with Taxpayer Dollars

Judicial Watch

Remote Pacific Island Covered in 38 Million Pieces of Trash

Washington Post

More American Workers Are Testing Positive for Drugs

Weber, Wall Street Journal

Thinning Line Between Commercial and Government Surveillance

The Atlantic

Whistle-Blower Says Insurers Bilking Medicare for Billions

New York Times

Comey Memo Is One Way FBI Might Wage 'War' on Trump

Vox

For Sharing a Scientific Paper, a Young Researcher Faces Jail Time

STAT News

Wednesday, May 17

B-21 Stealth Bomber's Secrecy to Be Reviewed by Inspector General

Bloomberg

25 Million Could Find Mortgage Tax Break Useless in Trump Plan

Bloomberg

U.S. Hacker Linked to Fake Macron Documents

Gaathier-Villers, Wall Street Journal

NSA Worried About Potent Hacking Tool Getting Out, Then It Did

Washington Post

Governments Studied Fentanyls as Chem Weapons for Decades

Associated Press

Inside the Army's Plan to Ditch the M16/M4 Rifle

Todd South, Army Times

Russian State-Run Bank in Deal Involving Trump Hotel Partner

Wall Street Journal

Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago

ProPublica/Gizmodo

A Heroic, Legendary, Treasonous Israeli Spy

Ronen Bergman, Atavist Magazine

Inside the Shadowy World of America's 10 Biggest Gunmakers

Mother Jones

Thursday, May 18

Despite Denial, GoDaddy Works With Neo-Nazi Site

Aaron Sankin, Reveal

U.S. Army Wants to Replace Its Helicopters With These

Justin Bachman, Bloomberg

Tesla Factory Workers Tell of Pain, Injury, Stress

Julia Carrie Wong, Guardian

Trump Campaign's 18 Undisclosed Russian Contacts

Parker, Landay, Strobel, Reuters

U.S. Waging Massive Shadow War in Africa, Documents Show

Nick Turse, Vice News

Rich Teeth, Poor Teeth: A Class Divide

Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post

'Holy Rollers': Christians for Cannabis

Alyson Martin, BuzzFeed

Friday, May 19

Older Doctors Have Higher Patient Mortality Rates

Beth Mole, Ars Technica

Icahn's Charity Supports Education, Also Lent Him $119 Million

Andrea Fuller, WSJ