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Good morning! Today is Wednesday April 12, 2017.
Here is a sampler of some of the latest investigative news from around the country and across the world.

Moms Who Bake vs. the Cookie Police
RealClearInvestigations
Wisconsin and New Jersey are the only two states that still broadly ban small-scale sales of home-baked goods, and some entrepreneurial women are not pleased. One asks, when did Grandma ever kill anyone with her cookies? The women are a case study in how hard it is to roll back burdensome, anti-competitive regulation.

Tesla Appears to Mask Safety Recalls With 'Updates'
NewCartographer
Tesla has not issued safety recalls despite numerous reports of its Model S suddenly losing power. Instead, repairs after the potentially dangerous incidents have been described as “updates” allowing the vehicles to "benefit from the latest generation components.” Such responses are well outside the norms of U.S. auto safety reporting, this report says.Â

FBI Obtained FISA Warrant to Monitor Trump Adviser Carter Page
Washington Post
The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of Carter Page, an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, as part of an investigation into links between Russia and the presidential campaign. Government lawyers convinced a judge of probable cause to believe Page was acting on Russia's behalf.

Left-Leaning Pages Growing in Number on Facebook
Axios
Seven of the top 11 most-engaged Facebook pages are left-leaning or affiliated with Trump resistance movements, according to a social analytics company.

U.S. Says Jailed Russia Programmer One of the World's Best Hackers
Wall Street Journal
Pyotr Levashov, the Russian programmer arrested in Spain on accusations of cyber fraud on Friday, operated a vast network of compromised computers for malicious purposes, U.S. authorities allege.

Romney's Binders, Still Full of Women, Are Unearthed
Boston Globe
Late night comics had a field day when Mitt Romney, during a 2012 presidential debate, awkwardly referred to the “binders full of women” he had considered for state posts when elected governor of Massashusetts. Now the actual binders, thick with the resumes of nearly 200 women, have been rediscovered, a quaint relic from a campaign past.

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