Reuters Investigates

Nobitex’s founders went to great lengths to avoid their clients’ transactions being monitored by Western governments, Reuters found. Nobitex advised customers to layer transactions using multiple crypto wallet addresses to make them harder to track reut.rs/4cXkQuh

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 1,100 Ukrainians have been accused of betraying their country. One in five are minors. A case involving a group of boys from Chernihiv shows how children can be both perpetrator and victim reut.rs/49g0hZ0

US federal officials sought confidential voter records, pressed for access to voting equipment and re-examined voter-fraud claims that courts and bipartisan reviews had already rejected, a Reuters investigation found reut.rs/3OOM7Ht @specialreports

In Ohio, Homeland Security sought and obtained voter records from at least six counties, two of them solidly Democratic and the others politically competitive, Reuters found reut.rs/3OOM7Ht @specialreports

In Colorado and South Carolina, officials in more than 100 counties are seeking guidance on possible subpoenas and what to do if federal agents show up at election offices or polling places, Reuters found reut.rs/3OOM7Ht @specialreports

US election administrators in some jurisdictions told Reuters they fear the administration’s actions could open the door to intensified federal scrutiny of election results this November, when control of Congress is at stake reut.rs/3OOM7Ht @specialreports

From Ohio and Nevada to Georgia and Michigan, Reuters found a multi-state federal push into elections that's unsettling local officials long accustomed to running elections with limited federal involvement reut.rs/3OOM7Ht @specialreports

A Reuters investigation found a broader-than-previously known Trump administration effort to expand federal control over elections, using investigations, raids and demands for access to voting systems across at least eight states reut.rs/3OOM7Ht @specialreports

Iran's Revolutionary Guards kept the Kurds from rising up through strikes in neighboring Iraq and threats on both sides of the border. Mixed signals from the US and Israel also left the Kurds unsure of their role reut.rs/4dvki0N

Footage posted online by Ukrainian fighters shows repeated sabotage attacks on a vast railroad system Russia is building across occupied Ukrainian territories. But the efforts are not enough to slow Moscow's industrial expansion reut.rs/4dFhXjS @specialreports

Moscow is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into transport and trade infrastructure in occupied Ukrainian territories. The projects are weaving those areas into Russia and undercutting Kyiv's demand that the land be returned reut.rs/4t7Fnmr

Banksy has created street art around the world. But it was an unfinished work on a billboard atop a New York apartment building that helped Reuters to prove beyond all doubt the artist's identity reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Reuters journey to understand Banksy began in Ukraine and led to a rooftop billboard in New York’s Meatpacking District, and the walls and auction houses of London reut.rs/4cGMYnb

The search for Banksy began in war-ravaged Ukraine and took Reuters to New York and London, uncovering details about the tactics Banksy used to remain masked reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Reuters consulted Banksy experts, pored over scores of photos and reviewed never-before-published court and police records, including a hand-written confession that reveals beyond dispute the artist's true identity reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Reuters reporters hoped that finding out more about Banksy, in particular his real name and background, might provide essential context for better understanding the artist’s work and to assess the motivations behind his pseudonymity reut.rs/4cGMYnb

Best known for simple yet sophisticated work infused with searing social commentary, Banksy has produced art that's generated tens of millions of dollars in sales. Despite his fame, few know with certainty his real name reut.rs/4cGMYnb

For decades, Banksy nurtured the notion that he can be anywhere at any moment. Reuters explores the art, commerce and paradox of the most famous anonymous man in the world reut.rs/4cGMYnb

When Banksy's work began appearing in Ukraine, Reuters journalists wondered how he pulled it off. We knew some residents were watching him work. Would they be able to identify him? reut.rs/4cGMYnb

The AI boom poses a problem for the FDA, current and former agency scientists told Reuters: The agency is struggling to keep pace with the flood of AI-enhanced medical devices seeking approval after losing key staff reut.rs/3Ov2oAB @specialreports