Yeganeh Torbati covers the U.S. federal government for ProPublica and is based in Washington, D.C.
Derek Willis is a news applications developer at ProPublica, focusing on politics and elections.
Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability.
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.