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Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News

Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News

Reuters — First of two stories One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T Inc, the world's largest communications company.
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How a great-grandmother's body came to be used in an Army blast test

How a great-grandmother's body came to be used in an Army blast test

Reuters — SURPRISE, Arizona - Jim Stauffer thought he was doing the right thing.
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In the U.S. market for human bodies, anyone can sell the donated dead

In the U.S. market for human bodies, anyone can sell the donated dead

Reuters — LAS VEGAS - The company stacked brochures in funeral parlors around Sin City. On the cover: a couple clasping hands. Above the image, a promise: "Providing Options in Your Time of Need." The company, Southern Nevada Donor Services, offered grieving families a way to eliminate expensive funeral costs: free cremation in exchange for donating a loved one's body to "advance medical studies."
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How Reuters bought human body parts and learned a donor's tragic story

How Reuters bought human body parts and learned a donor's tragic story

Reuters — TOWNSEND, Tennessee - Cody Saunders was born in 1992 with failing kidneys and a hole in his heart. When he died on his 24th birthday, he had endured 66 surgeries and more than 1,700 rounds of dialysis...
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How one couple made a fortune selling bodies donated to science

How one couple made a fortune selling bodies donated to science

Reuters — PHOENIX - In 2008, a thriving company named Science Care Inc developed a 55-page national expansion plan. The internal document projected the yield on raw material to the decimal point and earnings to the dollar. The goal: to maximize profits from the sale of human bodies donated to science.
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Inside a business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold

Inside a business where human bodies were butchered, packaged and sold

Reuters — PHOENIX - Sam Kazemi stood over the old man's corpse. Nearby lay pliers, a scalpel and a motorized saw designed to cut drywall and pipe. On a busy day, Kazemi might harvest body parts from five or six people who had donated their bodies to science.
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Special Report: The final days and deals of Aubrey McClendon

Special Report: The final days and deals of Aubrey McClendon

Reuters — OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The night before Aubrey McClendon died, the oil-and-gas pioneer was expected at a private dinner here with potential business partners. Among them: Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico. Around sunset, the group gathered in a wood-paneled dining room at the exclusive Beacon Club.
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The most vulnerable victims of America's opioid epidemic

The most vulnerable victims of America's opioid epidemic

Reuters — Babies born dependent on drugs are being released to parents unable to care for them, and Reuters found 110 examples of children who died as a result.
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Special Report: Military knew about bizarre methods of doctor hired to train troops

Special Report: Military knew about bizarre methods of doctor hired to train troops

Reuters — In 2005, for instance, the commander of U.S. Special Forces became so alarmed by what his aides observed during one of Hagmann's training courses that the commander ordered all such private training halted, according to interviews and military documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Exclusive: Doctor who trained U.S. troops suspended for macabre techniques

Exclusive: Doctor who trained U.S. troops suspended for macabre techniques

Reuters — During instructional sessions in 2012 and 2013 for military personnel, Dr Hagmann gave troop trainees drugs and liquor, and directed them to perform macabre medical procedures on one another. Hagmann also is accused of conducting “shock labs,” a process in which he withdrew blood from the students, monitored them for shock, and then transfused the blood back into their systems.
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The Echo Chamber

The Echo Chamber

Reuters — WASHINGTON - The marble façade of the U.S. Supreme Court building proclaims a high ideal: "Equal Justice Under Law." But inside, an elite cadre of lawyers has emerged as first among equals, giving their clients a disproportionate chance to influence the law of the land.
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U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

Reuters — A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial.
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Special Report: The lavish and leveraged life of Aubrey McClendon

Special Report: The lavish and leveraged life of Aubrey McClendon

Reuters — The AKM unit, the jet flights and the Thunder relationship are part of the lavish but leveraged lifestyle that McClendon has built through Chesapeake, America's second-largest natural gas producer. From the 111-acre corporate campus that he shaped with a meticulous eye for detail, McClendon has intertwined his personal financial interests with those of the publicly traded corporation he runs to a far greater degree than shareholders may realize, according to interviews, public records and hundreds of pages of internal Chesapeake documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Jihad Jane series

Jihad Jane series

Reuters — US officials called Colleen LaRose the "new face of terrorism" and their court filings and press releases draw a frightening portrait of the Jihad Jane conspiracy. But an exclusive Reuters review of confidential investigative documents and interviews in Europe and the United States, including the first with Jihad Jane herself, reveals a less menacing and, in some ways, more preposterous undertaking than the U.S. government asserted.
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