For more than a decade, the broadband and wireless industry has fought off attempts to let the government collect such details as price and access speeds about consumers’ Internet service. Now, the Federal Communications Commission is set to release a national broadband plan and regulators will try again to force more information about the "digital divide" into the open in an effort to help consumers.

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If America’s bankers celebrated the end of 2009 exuberantly you could hardly blame them. After all, new Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data analyzed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop confirms that last year was one of the worst in memory for the industry.

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The crash of Continental 3407 a year ago just outside Buffalo has cast new light on the increasing importance of regional airlines and their relationships with their bigger and better-known major partners.  FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop explore those relationships in "Flying Cheap." th

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Despite criticism from members of Congress, foreign companies continue to received hundreds of millions of dollars from the stimulus package intended to create green energy jobs in America.

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With the help of some new-found friends and a $600 million lobbying effort, the nuclear energy industry is on the brink of getting federal financial support to build reactors to generate elecricity. Already, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is swamped by a tsunami of applications, even though old issues such as safety and waste disposal still haven't been solved.

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The government’s $45 billion plan to jump-start a national shift to electronic medical records has touched off a gold rush among scores of technology firms – even as many experts question whether the benefits of the products are being oversold. Read our stories here .

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Nancy Ann DeParle, who heads the White House Office on Health Reform, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop.

DeParle, who ran the Medicare program in the last years of the Clinton administration made more than $6.6 million in directors' fees and stock transactions between 2001 and March of this year, Securities and Exchange Commission filings revealed.

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Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing type of cancer in the nation, and medical researchers don't know why. The increase comes as the rates for most cancers have been declining. Caroline Stetler, an American University journalism graduate student, reports on this mystery .