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The Paper Trail: July 30, 2024

Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Plan; Congress Takes Another Crack at Over-Classification; High-Tech Scammers Target the Elderly; and More. 

The Paper Trail: July 26, 2024

Congress Forms Trump Shooting Task Force; Appeals Court Nixes Universal Service Fund; The Trench Collapse Danger; and More. 

The Paper Trail: July 12, 2024

Senators Push Congressional Stock Trading Ban; Trump’s Fingerprints on Project 2025; Despite Tough Laws, Nursing Home Residents Still Suffer; and More. 

The Paper Trail: July 9, 2024

Insurers Pocket Billions from Dubious Diagnoses; Lax U.S. Marshal Oversight of Detention Facilities; Will Boeing Be Put on Contracting Time-Out; and More. 

The Paper Trail: July 2, 2024

SCOTUS Gives Ex-Presidents Broad Immunity; Gaza Aid Pier Out of Commission — Again; NASA Misjudged Danger of Space Junk; and More. 

The Paper Trail: June 28, 2024

SCOTUS Rolls Back Federal Agency Powers; Identity Theft is Taxing the IRS; Pentagon Watchdog Probing Gaza Pier; and More.

The Paper Trail: June 25, 2024

Boeing’s Friends Inside the DOJ; Postal Service Allows Police to Spy on Americans; States Say Meta Failing Children on Safety; and More. 

The Paper Trail: June 21, 2024

Boeing on the Hot Seat Again; The Shady Business Practices of 527s; COVID Tax Credits a Magnet for Fraud; and More. 

The Paper Trail: June 18, 2024

DOD’s Secret Anti-Vax Campaign; DHS Admitted Hundreds of “Inadmissible” Travelers; Older Women Shortchanged by Medical Research; and More. 

The Paper Trail: June 14, 2024

More Unreported Luxury Travel for Justice Thomas; How the IRS Went Soft on the Ultrarich; How the FAA Went Soft on Boeing; and More. 

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