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Mysterious ‘Difficulties’ Prevent Secretive Nuclear Lab From Releasing Records on First Known Interstellar Object to Land on Earth

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By Tim Marchman
Tech

Department of Energy Heavily Redacts Documents on Homer Simpson Blog

07.29.21

By Aaron Gordon
Tech

Cops Refuse to Say What Kind of Weapons They Are Using Against Protesters

03.04.21

By Todd Feathers
Tech

School That Suspended Kids for Posting COVID Photos Won’t Release Records

08.19.20

By Joseph Cox
Tech

The U.S. Army Didn’t Even Use Tools it Bought from Hacking Team

10.28.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Here Are Hundreds of Pages of Official Documents About Predictive Policing in America

02.26.19

By Caroline Haskins
Tech

Why Seattle Accidentally Sent This Activist the First 256 Characters of 32 Million Internal Emails

10.31.18

By Karl Bode
Tech

Public Lands Agency Ordered Staff to Promote Oil and Gas on Social Media

12.11.17

By Sarah Emerson
Tech

‘Nature’ Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking

12.08.17

By Jason Koebler & Sarah Emerson
Here’s What J. Edgar Hoover Called ‘Fake News’

09.07.17

By Jason Leopold
Pulse

How John Lennon’s deportation inspired DACA

08.29.17

By Lindsay Van Dyke
Identity

Josh Duggar Sues Magazine That Exposed His Molestation Case

07.07.17

By Gabby Bess

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