By Fred Schulte and Ben ProtessHuffington Post Investigative FundInteractive StoryPowered by StoryRiver Media Nearly a dozen major banks and hedge fu...
In the lead up to the financial meltdown, Wall Street firms routinely exerted influence on the nation’s largest credit rating companies— which jud...
After taxpayers rescued American International Group from the brink of collapse, the U.S. government moved to protect its investment by appointing dir...
BOGOTÁ, Colombia - The man most likely to become Colombia's next president this Sunday has played a previously undisclosed role as a corporate office...
By Danielle IvoryHuffington Post Investigative FundWith her heart set on a career as a chef, Heather Galeotti enrolled in a San Francisco culinary sch...
One raw day in early February, Vicki Valentine stood by helplessly as real estate investors snatched her West Baltimore home over what began with an u...
The U.S. government's plan to rapidly grow the ranks of Afghan police officers has run into a shortage of instructors and training camps, prompting U....
Send Us Your Tips and 'Bandit Sign' PhotosLast month, we put out a call for stories and photos to help document the effect that "Hard Times ...
In the past eight years, the United States has allocated $51 billion to rebuild and stabilize Afghanistan. But tracking that money sometimes seems as ...
Keith Epstein, a senior reporter for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, appeared on "The Dylan Ratigan Show" on MSNBC this afternoon to discuss t...
The influential $42 billion-a-year payday lending industry, thriving from a surge in emergency loans to people struggling through the recession, is po...
As the war in Afghanistan intensifies, a contract dispute in Washington is interfering with the Obama administration's plan to rebuild the Afghan nati...
Drive through most any city in America and the offers will leap out at you: "Repair Your Credit!" "Modify Your Loan!" "Sell Your House Quick!" The ...
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund would like to shine a light on real estate schemes going on around the country. We're looking for your tips and stories to help us investigate.
The Super Bowl is America's most expensive sports spectacle, and it has long been used to rub shoulders, gain influence and form ties that help congressional candidates.
Sheila Bair, one of the chief regulators overseeing Bank of America's federal rescue, took out two mortgages worth more than $1 million from the banki...
Even by the distorted standards of the national housing bubble, north central Florida was a hot market. Between 2004 and 2006 new houses and property ...
Norma Jean Scott, a 63-year-old Alabama retiree, thought she was being prudent three years ago when she stashed her $100,000 retirement nest egg in a ...
Ten years ago, an 18-year-old student named Jesse Gelsinger died during a medical research trial involving gene therapy at the University of Pennsylva...
NEW YORK -- The man who would be known as Patient No. 1 emerged from routine open-heart surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in stable condit...
It's the question buzzing around Washington and Wall Street this week: Will Sen. Christopher Dodd's sudden retirement announcement further jeopardize ...
By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...
Editor's note: This is the first of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. To help with the investigation, sign up ...
The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of atrazine, one of the most commonly-used herbicides in the co...
As the cost of college continues to skyrocket, students are increasingly seeking loans from nonprofits--state-based organizations often viewed as an a...
