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Latest investigation
A look at the equipment shortage now shaping how reliable, and how expensive, electricity will be — traced through the utilities and manufacturers actually responsible for it.
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Energy & infrastructure
The equipment shortage quietly setting the price and reliability of electricity.
Global finance
What the real numbers say about India's claim to the next major economy seat.
AI economics
Tracing the gap between AI capital spending and AI revenue as the buildout happens in real time.
Court record
A documented court record used to test a real sentencing-disparity claim.
Claims Check
39 claims checked and published so far. Every one is run against primary sources before it ships — reacting to a headline is not the same as verifying it.
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Litigation releases and enforcement actions naming the actual parties involved.
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Primary filings and dockets, not secondhand court reporting.
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Enforcement actions and regulatory notices on commodities and derivatives.
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MLB, NFL, and NBA records used to check sports-finance claims directly.
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Census, BLS, FDA, and CDC records for the numbers behind a claim.
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Every claim run through three separate research passes before a script is finalized.
Vignettes & Weekly
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Vignette
Weekly
Explainers
The first entry in a growing series explaining how NLR's investigations actually get built and verified.
Explainer
Why per-capita comparisons mislead as often as they clarify, and how to read one correctly.
Coverage map
Ponzi schemes, rent-fixing, and insurance denials — traced to the executives and companies actually named in the filings.
Medicare, defense, and infrastructure dollars, followed through the agencies and contracts that moved them.
The real money behind leagues, transfers, and tournaments, not just the box score.
Capital spending, revenue, and the gap between the two, tracked as the AI buildout actually happens.