The Countersign

Stories

Reporting on power and money. Each story names the editor who checked it and lists its sources.

  1. House members reported more than 1,000 trades over a month late

    We read every electronic trade report filed with the House since January 2025. Two in five of the members who file them reported at least one trade late, and the House doesn’t publish who paid the late fee or who was excused.

    Reported and edited by Sam Calder

  2. Whoop’s terms, not its privacy policy, let it train AI on members’ data

    Whoop’s chief executive says the company is building its own foundation models on 50 billion hours of members’ physiological data. We traced Whoop’s legal documents through archived copies: the explicit right to train AI was written into its terms in October 2025, after years of licenses that never mentioned it, and none of the settings Whoop describes is said to switch it off.

    Reported and edited by Sam Calder