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Drilling overwhelms agency protecting America's lands
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The Bureau of Land Management is making it easier to produce oil and gas on federal acreage. In southeastern New Mexico, it can't even keep up with what's already happening....
Fake News On Twitter Won’t Have A Single Fix, Said CEO Jack Dorsey
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
'It’s a lot like security, no one can build a perfect lock,' Dorsey said, explaining why fake news is not an easy problem to solve....
Stan Lee, Pioneer Of The Marvel Universe, Dead At Age 95
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Lee was the co-creator of Marvel Comics characters including Spider-Man, Thor, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther and the Avengers....
Fatal flaws: How Kentucky fails its workers
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Lisa Hobbs holds a photo of her and her husband dancing together. Her husband, Gene Hobbs, was run over by a coworker on a construction site in December 2016....
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ of state worker safety programs
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Twenty-eight states and territories regulate their own workplaces rather than defer to the feds. While some of these programs are effective, others are in trouble for not adequatel...
Donors Invest Millions in Investigative Journalism Centers at US Universities
Tue Nov 13 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Arizona State University, which boasts the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, is one of two universities to launch investigative reporting centers based on funding from the Scri...
The Death of Bulgarian Journalist Viktoria Marinova: A Scandal, a Murder and a Mystery
Fri Nov 09 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova was working on what is known as the GP procurement scandal when she was killed. Photo: Facebook...
How to Identify Bots, Trolls and Botnets
Mon Nov 05 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Over the past two years, words like “bots,” “botnets” and “trolls” have entered mainstream conversations about social networks and their impact on democracies. However, malicious s...
How ActBlue is trying to turn small donations into a blue wave
Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
The liberal money-gathering platform is remaking fundraising for the left...
GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10: Forecasting Elections, Counting Fast Food, Kampala’s Swamp City, Gasping for Air
Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? ...
Mail-In Ballot Postage Becomes a Surprising (and Unnecessary) Cause of Voter Anxiety
Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
You can send your ballot in without a stamp, so why doesn’t anyone tell you that?...
'It's Impossible To Survive': Odisha Temple Priest Writes To SC Seeking To End His Life
Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
This comes after the Supreme Court suggested abolition of hereditary rights of servitors in Puri's Jagannath Temple....
The VA Shadow Rulers’ Signature Program Is “Trending Towards Red”
Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
A $10 billion technology upgrade championed by Jared Kushner and the Mar-a-Lago trio is at risk of failing the VA’s 7 million patients....
Cobrapost Exclusive : TATA CLiQ Uses Bogus Reviews to Bolster Online Sales
Thu Nov 01 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
An analysis reveals the Tata group company is using fake reviews to lure gullible customers into buying from its online store...
Modi Govt Skips Global Air Pollution Meet For Sardar Patel Statue Unveiling As India Chokes
Wed Oct 31 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Environment Minister Harsh Vardan, Health Minister JP Nadda and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan of the BJP chose to flag off "Unity Run" instead....
Backlash over North Dakota voter ID law could rally Native Americans
Tue Oct 30 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Tribes — with celebrity help — are mobilizing members ahead of midterms...
How The UIDAI Built The Aadhaar Database, And Created A Security Mess In The Process
Fri Sep 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Lakhs of untrained, poorly supervised people helped create the world’s largest biometric database. What happened when this access was taken away from them?...
Useful Chatbots, Less-Is-More Tables and Data Mapping Billions of Birds
Fri Sep 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week?...
Sabarimala Temple Verdict: Supreme Court Says Women Can Enter Kerala Shrine
Fri Sep 28 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Lifting the ban on women's entry, CJI Dipak Misra said patriarchy of religion cannot be permitted to trump over faith ....
Why are corporations pouring millions into shoo-in governor races?
Sat Sep 22 2018 | By Cobrapost Desk
Eight governors use war chests to shore up political power ahead of likely wins...