The Associated Press
Our investigations stand on The Associated Press' reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
25 stories, each opening at its source.
- AP — Chicago approves $90M settlement for the Ronald Watts police-corruption cases (176 lawsuits)
- AP — Deutsche Bank to pay $75M to Epstein accusers
- Associated Press — the enforcement data in context (scale, composition, and the gap from the stated goals)
- Associated Press — investigation of justices' travel and university appearances (context for the whole bench)
- Associated Press — Israeli soldiers forced Palestinian detainees to act as human shields (2025)
- Musk gesture, January 20, 2025 — Associated Press coverage and video
- AP on the 2024 appellate court affirming the conviction
- AP News — Middle East coverage (Trump’s Feb 2025 Gaza ‘takeover’ / relocation proposal)
- Associated Press, 'Trump administration plans $2.8 billion weapons sale to Israel' — notes the ~$6.67B approved in January 2026
- Associated Press — ex-Rep. David Rivera convicted over the secret $50M Venezuela lobbying campaign; Rubio's ties
- Robert Parry and Brian Barger, CIA Produced Manual on 'Neutralizing' Officials, Associated Press, October 17 1984
- AP News — RFK Jr. ousts entire ACIP committee that advises the CDC on vaccines (June 9, 2025)
- AP News — OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
- AP — 'Where's Waldo?' among the ~10,000 banned; Mein Kampf makes the cut
- AP News — Texas and Florida gain most; the migration data in context
- AP News — Trump pardons emissions-bypass violators and Abramoff partner
- AP News — independent autopsy: Mississippi baby shot by police was struck from the side
- AP — driver shot to death on the George Washington Bridge; retired detective charged
- AP — Altman tells Senate the government should license powerful AI systems (May 16, 2023)
- AP — What is Gaza’s Health Ministry and how does it count the dead?
- AP — Senate strikes AI provision from the Republican tax bill after uproar from states
- Associated Press: Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence in child molestation case (Andrew Paul Johnson)
- AP News — Mississippi AG says officer's use of force was justified; use-of-force experts John P. Gross and Charles 'Joe' Key say otherwise
- AP News — Settlement would forgive $6B for defrauded college students (borrower defense; Corinthian collapse)
- AP — Hegseth fires the Pentagon's top military planner as Trump weighs renewed Iran strikes
Where their work appears on this site
- If the Ideology Is Better, Where Are the Results? →
- The Mirror →
- Genocide? Ethnic cleansing? The case for and against each label →
- Kohen Wiley →
- Make America Healthy Again? →
- The Pardon Market →
- The Diploma Was the Product →
- Projection →
- Read Between the Lines →
- Suchir Balaji →
- Mein Kampf Is Fine. The Color Purple Isn't. →
- $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
- The Benefit of the Doubt →
- The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
- The Deportation Dividend →
- The Duty to Refuse →
- The Palestine Laboratory: field-tested on Gaza, sold to the world →
- The Rest of the Bench →
- The taxpayer bill: who actually pays for misconduct →
- Venezuela's Oil Money and Washington's Power Brokers →
- The Austerity Myth →
- Dangerous Knowledge →
- Deregulation Reality →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Judges & Prosecutors →
- Policing the Poor →
- The Pretoria Playbook →
- The Private Equity Playbook →
- Promise vs. Reality →
- Return on Investment →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- Sowing Division →
- The Tech Right →
- Too Big to Jail →
- Who Controls What You Get to Know →
How we graded the claims built on their work
25 FACT. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- The taxpayer bill: who actually pays for misconduct →
$90 million to close 176 cases: the Ronald Watts squad (Chicago).
FACT - The Mirror →
2023 — $75 million to Epstein's victims.
FACT - The Deportation Dividend →
And so, the record: no housing relief, no wage boom, no jobs dividend has appeared.
FACT - The Rest of the Bench →
And the ones with nothing on the record — said as plainly as the rest.
FACT - The Palestine Laboratory: field-tested on Gaza, sold to the world →
Detainees were forced ahead of troops as human shields.
FACT - The Pretoria Playbook →
Elon Musk — $277 million, DOGE, and the exit
FACT - The Cover-Up That Didn't End: crime, settlement, and the fight over the Epstein files →
Ghislaine Maxwell's December 2021 conviction
FACT - Genocide? Ethnic cleansing? The case for and against each label →
In 2025 the removal went from rhetoric to proposal: relocate Gaza's population.
FACT - $2.8 Billion in Heavy Bombs — Paid For by the American Taxpayer →
It extends a 2026 surge: about $6.67 billion in arms sales approved in January and roughly $2.7 billion in February.
FACT - Venezuela's Oil Money and Washington's Power Brokers →
Marco Rubio's closest political ally was convicted of secretly lobbying for the Maduro government.
FACT - Sowing Division →
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare — the Nicaraguan Contra manual (1983)
FACT - Make America Healthy Again? →
RFK Jr's HHS fired every member of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee.
FACT - Suchir Balaji →
Separately, OpenAI faces seven wrongful-death and injury lawsuits — over ChatGPT, not over Balaji.
FACT - Mein Kampf Is Fine. The Color Purple Isn't. →
Texas prisons ban ~10,000 books — and Mein Kampf and David Duke are allowed.
FACT - If the Ideology Is Better, Where Are the Results? →
The honest counter: inside the US, people are moving TO the conservative states.
FACT - The Pardon Market →
The July 3, 2026 Batch — Pattern data point
FACT - Kohen Wiley →
The justification — 'the car drove at officers' — is contradicted by an independent autopsy.
FACT - The Benefit of the Doubt →
The killing, as alleged: a road-rage pursuit and a single fatal shot, on surveillance video.
FACT - Read Between the Lines →
The other half of the point: the labs really do ask for rules — so 'they want no oversight' is the wrong charge.
FACT - Genocide? Ethnic cleansing? The case for and against each label →
The scale and the conditions: mass death, siege, starvation, and the destruction of the means of life.
FACT - Read Between the Lines →
The tell is federal preemption: an attempt to bar states from regulating AI for ten years — beaten 99-1, and not over.
FACT - Projection →
Two January 6 rioters Trump pardoned turned up in child-abuse cases — one sentenced to life.
FACT - Kohen Wiley →
Use-of-force experts — including one who usually testifies for police — call the shooting almost certainly unjustified.
FACT - The Diploma Was the Product →
When the chains collapsed, students got the debt and taxpayers got the bill.
FACT - The Duty to Refuse →
With the internal channels closed, the one route left — the press — is being met with prosecution.
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