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Outside groups supplied 88 percent of the money spent on the Democratic side of a contest AdImpact ranks as the third most expensive Senate primary in US history.

A shrimp-boat captain with a high school education won a $50 million settlement against Formosa Plastics. The blueprint she built is being packaged for anyone else facing a polluter.

Two Republican senators who had blocked the nomination demanded the fund be killed in writing. A second order narrows the tax settlement that created it.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s review of the Democratic Senate candidate’s residency records found that he may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.

A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.