Raw Story investigative reporter Alexandria Jacobson has won the prestigious Sidney Award for her months-long investigation into violence against letter carriers and a recent spike in mail-related crime. “Jacobson’s meticulous reporting casts a light on the risks faced by letter carriers and the official indifference to their wellbeing on the job,” Sidney Award judge Lindsay Beyerstein said Wednesday. “This story …
Throughout 2023, federal lawmakers kept introducing a steady stream of bills designed to stop congressional stock trading. Nothing has come of those bills yet, but Raw Story has identified at least 37 members of Congress this year who violated federal law by not properly disclosing their personal finances as required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the …
Raw Story investigative reporter Alexandria Jacobson today won first prize in the 2023 ION Awards contest for her series of exclusive reports about members of Congress violating a federal law designed to stop insider trading, curb financial conflicts of interest and enhance public transparency. Jacobson is the lead reporter on Raw Story's "Lawmakers, Law Breakers" project, which this year has …
Six months before the 2020 election, Tomi Collins, a Christian right organizer from North Dakota, issued a demand on Twitter for the execution of political enemies in the federal government bureaucracy — citing an array of imagined offenses, including the QAnon hoax that progressive elites are harvesting children’s blood. The mission statement for America Restored, prominently displayed on its website’s …
Steve Scalise slammed Joe Biden's border policies as 'child abuse' as he shared images from the border including one of a migrant facility that is at 16 times its capacity. Today, there's more than 4,000 people,' Scalise detailed in a press conference over the weekend Images of the facility in a video shared to Twitter show migrant children crammed together …