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Detention Facilities For Immigrants Fast-Tracked For Deportation Were Rife With Problems, Inspectors Find
Federal inspectors also found that families were held in Border Patrol custody for longer than a week, well beyond the 72-hour standard for detention.
Hamed Aleaziz
UK Lawmakers Are Launching A Formal Inquiry Based On The FinCEN Files
“It’s important that the relevant bodies are held to account and scrutinised effectively to ensure that the UK is a clean place to do business.”
Tom Warren
Nigeria’s Military Shot And Killed Peaceful Protesters Who Were Calling For An End To Police Brutality
The #EndSARS movement has swept across Nigeria and the world — but the country’s president won’t acknowledge it even after protesters were slaughtered.
Ade Onibada
Pope Francis Said He Supports Civil Unions For Same-Sex Couples
"If this a public recognition that same-sex couples deserve — and the church will no longer block — legal recognition of committed relationships, clearly that is an international game changer," said one member of a Catholic LGBTQ organization.
Amber Jamieson
Lawyers Can't Find The Parents Of More Than 500 Immigrant Children Who Were Separated By The Trump Administration
"People are constantly asking me when we will find all the families and I unfortunately do not know."
Stephanie K. Baer
It’s A US Territory Where The Coronavirus Never Arrived — But Some Residents Can’t Get Home
The remote US territory of American Samoa has not recorded a single case of COVID-19 after shutting itself off to the world in March. Even some locals can't get home.
Julia Reinstein
26 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week
From the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett to early voting, these are some of the most powerful photos of this week.
Kate Bubacz
Endless Waits At An Immigrant Camp On The Mexico Border Are Pushing Desperate People To Make Tough Choices
"They've lost hope in the system and are abandoning their entire asylum case in favor of human smugglers."
Adolfo Flores
Facebook Gave A Platform To The Shady Ukrainians Pushing The New York Post Biden Story
Facebook may have throttled the reach of the New York Post story. But these men are celebrating all the same.
Christopher Miller
Scientists Are Slamming The Great Barrington Declaration’s Call For “Herd Immunity”
A week after White House officials met with scientists endorsing herd immunity, dozens of other researchers called it “a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence.”
Stephanie M. Lee
A Republican Demanded Harry And Meghan Be Stripped Of All Titles For Their Voting Video
Harry and Meghan never explicitly mentioned Trump when they said people should "reject hate speech, misinformation, and online negativity" — but one GOP member of Congress says the implication is clear.
David Mack
Here Are Some Moments Of Incredible Humanity That Indians Have Shown During These Terrible Times
Wholesome content ahead!
Sumedha Bharpilania
The World Food Program Has Won The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
"Until the day we have a vaccine, food is the best vaccine against chaos."
Ade Onibada
European Lawmakers Are Looking For New Ways To Fight Money Laundering In The Wake Of The FinCEN Files Investigation
Lawmakers call for a unified approach after revelations put a spotlight on European banks. Current efforts are like a “Swiss cheese full of holes.”
Richard Holmes
"That's A Dictator": Foreign Election Experts Say Trump Is Engaging In Voter Suppression And Intimidation
“I’ve never thought in my eight years of working in this industry, that I would be worried about election violence in the US in this day and age,” one former election observer said, “but now I wouldn’t put it past us.”
David Mack
Startups In India Want To Build Their Own App Store To Bypass Google's
To avoid paying a 30% cut, Indian tech companies are looking for new ways to get apps in the hands of consumers.
Pranav Dixit
We Are Not Your Daughters
We do not wish to be India's daughters.
Sumedha Bharpilania
India Is Shocked Over The Rape And Killing Of A Young Dalit Woman
The victim's family had pleaded with the police to release her body.
Nishita Jha
The Biden Campaign Slammed Facebook For Refusing To Take Down Misleading Trump Posts
“Rather than seeing progress, we have seen regression,” Biden's campaign manager wrote in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Pranav Dixit
A Uighur Woman Who Was At Risk Of Being Forcibly Sent Back To China And Detained Has Arrived Safely In The US
Tursunay Ziyawudun is among a small number of former detainees who have left China and spoken publicly about their experiences in internment camps in the Xinjiang region.
Megha Rajagopalan
A Russian Billionaire With Close Ties To Putin Made Suspicious Payments To Nobu
The high-end sushi empire received $600,000 as part of a deal with Aras Agalarov, a friend of President Donald Trump's.
John Templon
How To Find A Company That Barely Even Exists
A $27.1 million shipment of fluorescent lamps. A bogus website. Elusive owners. A FinCEN Files detective story.
John Templon
A Powerful Lawmaker Is Asking The British Government Hard Questions About The FinCEN Files Revelations
The FinCEN Files investigation showed the US government describing Britain as a “ < href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54204053" target="_blank">higher-risk jurisdiction” for money laundering.
Richard Holmes
Twitter Let Dozens Of Tweets Doxing Interfaith Couples In India Stay Up For Months
“If this happened in America with interracial couples being doxed, there would be rapid action, I am sure of it.”
Pranav Dixit
Facebook Removed A Chinese Propaganda Network Targeting The Philippines, Southeast Asia, And The US
Content targeting Biden and Trump received almost no engagement.
Jane Lytvynenko
The Banker Was A Spy
The Russian bank VEB has long operated in the United States — despite dozens of suspicious activity reports outlining concerns that it was a threat to national security. A FinCEN Files investigation.
Scott Pham
HSBC's Secret Files: The Inside Tale Of What Happened After It Apologized For Being Dirty
From the FinCEN Files investigation: Secret documents show how one of the world’s biggest banks kept doing business with companies that its own employees raised red flags about.
Anthony Cormier
Standard Chartered’s Problems With Suspicious Clients Didn’t Go Away. Just Like These Two Ex-Employees Had Been Saying.
Confidential records from the FinCEN Files show that the bank was reporting its own suspicions about customers with links to Iran until at least 2017.
Richard Holmes
Explore Thousands Of Suspicious Payments Sent Around The World
This interactive map, created by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the FinCEN Files investigation, shows $35 billion in transactions — reported as suspicious by banks and other financial institutions — making their way through the global financial system.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Documents Show Deutsche Bank’s Top Executives Were Warned It Had A Dirty Money Problem. Then A $10 Billion Scandal Broke.
When the $10 billion mirror trading scandal was exposed, little emerged about who its victims were or how much Deutsche’s executives knew. The FinCEN Files investigation shows how deep the rot went.
Tom Warren
