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NEW: Conservative powerbroker Cleta Mitchell has raised a ...

2026-10-28T12:00:04Z

NEW: Conservative powerbroker Cleta Mitchell has raised a grassroots army to transform American voting systems and worked closely with the administration to enact her plans.

No one besides Trump himself has done more to overhaul elections.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cleta-mitchell-elections-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Politics #USPolitics #Law #Trump #Election #Vote #Voting #Midterms

NEW: Citation Oil & Gas is named more often than any other ...

2026-10-27T13:30:23Z

NEW: Citation Oil & Gas is named more often than any other company in Oklahoma’s database of oil field pollution incidents and violations — listed more than 1,000 times over the past decade.

The state’s oil regulator has never punished the company.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-pollution-citation-violations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Pollution #Data #Regulation #Environment

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients ...

2026-10-26T13:30:39Z

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers.

In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients.

The CEO was just indicted for fraud.
https://www.propublica.org/article/zohar-pinhasi-monstercloud-ransomware-indictment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Florida #Cybersecurity #Tech #Technology #Law #Data #Hacking

NEW: In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a ...

2026-10-26T12:30:20Z

NEW: In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests
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Brent Taylor is the front-runner for one of Memphis’ congressional districts, recently redrawn from majority Black to majority white. As state senator, he repeatedly used his power to supersede local officials — and the will of the city’s voters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/brent-taylor-memphis-tennessee-preemption-laws?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Memphis #Tennessee #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #USPolitics

NEW: Officer Jaron Alexander says he didn’t come back to ...

2026-10-25T13:00:30Z

NEW: Officer Jaron Alexander says he didn’t come back to Ingram, Texas, to help deport his neighbors.

But one year after joining ICE’s 287(g) program, his department has handed over the equivalent of 10% of the town.
https://www.propublica.org/article/deportations-ingram-texas-287g-jaron-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Police #Immigration #Immigrant #Deportation #Texas

NEW: A week after ProPublica reported how organized crime is ...

2026-10-23T17:58:05Z

NEW: A week after ProPublica reported how organized crime is stealing food stamp benefits — aided by the government’s refusal to update benefit-card technology — the Department of Agriculture announced plans to adopt more secure cards with microchips.
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-theft-chip-cards-trump-rule?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Food #SNAP #Poverty #Crime #Government #USDA #Tech #Technology

NEW: “In Texas, we fight fraud head-on,” Ken Paxton said last ...

2026-10-23T16:27:44Z

NEW: “In Texas, we fight fraud head-on,” Ken Paxton said last year.

Yet records show his trust gave $600K to a convicted fraudster’s new company in 2020, which later wired the trust tens of thousands of dollars before and during his 2023 impeachment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-investment-scott-sherman-wildcatter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Fraud #Business #Investment #TX #Government #USPolitics

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah ...

2026-10-23T13:30:13Z

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months.

Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic.

But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-mink-farm-utah-human-risk?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #BirdFlu #H5N1 #Utah #Pandemic #PublicHealth #Health #Science

NEW: A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who ...

2026-10-22T14:30:22Z

NEW: A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site.

Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to deny them benefits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hanford-nuclear-workers-compensation-washington-doe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Washington #Nuclear #Energy #Labor #DepartmentOfEnergy #WorkersRights

NEW: ProPublica sued the federal government for records that show ...

2026-10-22T13:30:24Z

NEW: ProPublica sued the federal government for records that show which schools are facing civil rights investigations — data that was public before Trump’s second term.

Now you can use our searchable database to find cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/civil-rights-office-education-department-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Education #School #CivilRights #Government #Trump #Data #Journalism #Research #Parenting #Children #Teaching #Discrimination #SexaulAssault

NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from ...

2026-10-22T12:30:10Z

NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from USPS’ cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas.

Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-ballot-delays-postal-service-midterms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Data #USPS #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #Rural #USPolitics

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division may have put ...

2026-10-21T15:36:36Z

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division may have put consumers at increased risk of using unsafe cannabis products, according to a state audit.

The findings echo a yearlong investigation into the agency by The Denver Gazette and ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-marijuana-enforcement-division-audit-findings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Colorado #Marijuana #Cannabis #Safety #Regulation #Health

NEW: Three people died in Ruidoso on July 8, 2025, after ...

2026-10-21T14:30:08Z

NEW: Three people died in Ruidoso on July 8, 2025, after dangerous floods swept through the New Mexico town.

First responders say they were understaffed and inadequately equipped to respond to the flooding.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ruidoso-flood-emergency-response-water-rescue?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NewMexico #Flood #Emergency #Safety #Rescue #FirstResponders

NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a ...

2026-10-21T01:58:34Z

NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view.

The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-venezuela-oil-agreement-terms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Venezuela #Oil #Gas #Economy #Politics #Geopolitics #Business

How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn ...

2026-10-20T12:30:45Z

How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation
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An FBI anti-corruption team launched an investigation into whether South Carolina’s most powerful members of Congress were involved in a bribery scheme, ProPublica found. After Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, the investigation went dark.
https://www.propublica.org/article/navatek-lindsey-graham-jim-clyburn-fbi-anti-corruption-bribery?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SouthCarolina #Defense #FBI #Government #Corruption #USPolitics

NEW: We recently reported that more than 500 American citizens ...

2026-10-19T20:30:15Z

NEW: We recently reported that more than 500 American citizens have been detained by immigration agents.

Now House members are moving to make it easier for those detained to seek justice through the courts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/american-citizens-wrongfully-detained-ice-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #Immigrants #ICE #DHS #USPolitics #Congress #Law

NEW: A high-ranking Republican tried to curb the unchecked growth ...

2026-10-19T14:30:26Z

NEW: A high-ranking Republican tried to curb the unchecked growth of West Virginia’s school voucher program.

Then three PACs — bankrolled by pro-school choice billionaires like the Koch family and Jeffrey Yass — worked to take him down.
https://www.propublica.org/article/west-virginia-school-choice-billionaires-vernon-criss?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #WestVirginia #Billionaires #Election #Midterms #School #Education #SchoolChoice

NEW: In Texas, Ken Paxton successfully defended a near-total ...

2026-10-19T13:30:28Z

NEW: In Texas, Ken Paxton successfully defended a near-total abortion ban before Roe v. Wade was struck down, and he blocked federal guidance for emergency abortion care.

His allies see an opening to further restrict abortion if his Senate bid is successful.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-texas-abortion-senate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KenPaxton #Texas #Law #Senate #Election #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics

NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency ...

2026-10-19T12:30:31Z

NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DHS #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Trump #USPolitics #Cybersecurity

Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s ...

2026-10-16T13:30:12Z

Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for turning over state voter rolls.

“Clearly, this demand is devoid of any factual basis,” one judge wrote.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-doj-voter-data-lawsuits/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Law #Judge #DOJ #Vote #Voting #Election #Lawsuit #Legal

NEW on “Paper Trail”: A defense contractor CEO told the FBI ...

2026-10-15T17:30:04Z

NEW on “Paper Trail”: A defense contractor CEO told the FBI that he had bribed politicians — and that Susan Collins was his most important patron. Then Trump shut down an elite FBI anti-corruption unit.

So we took it upon ourselves to investigate. Listen to the full episode:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/susan-collins-bribery-allegations-fbi-martin-kao?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SusanCollins #FBI #Trump #Maine #Defense #Government #Corruption #USPolitics #Law

NEW: For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system ...

2026-10-15T14:30:11Z

NEW: For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges.

But after the state Supreme Court overruled a gerrymandering attempt by the GOP, some Republican lawmakers are calling for the system to be overturned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-plan-judge-selection-republican-attacks?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Missouri #GOP #Republicans #Law #Courts #Legal #USPolitics

NEW: Since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott first declared an emergency at ...

2026-10-15T13:30:12Z

NEW: Since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott first declared an emergency at the border in 2021, he’s renewed or amended the proclamation at least 69 times.

The proclamation has greatly expanded his powers without going through the state Legislature.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-border-security-disaster-proclamation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #Border #Security #Governor #GregAbbott #USPolitics

NEW: Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, spent millions ...

2026-10-14T14:30:24Z

NEW: Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, spent millions of dollars drafting separate plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Neither plan took into account how the construction of three new data centers could upend climate goals in both places.
https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-texas-new-mexico-greenhouse-gas-emissions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NewMexico #ElPaso #Texas #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #DataCenters #Energy #Pollution

NEW: The women were victims of domestic abuse. That’s what they ...

2026-10-14T13:30:23Z

NEW: The women were victims of domestic abuse.

That’s what they told police officers, attorneys and anyone who would listen.

It didn’t matter.

They were all taken to an immigration detention center.
https://www.propublica.org/article/domestic-violence-immigrant-victims-ice-detention?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Women #Abuse #Violence #Immigrants #Immigration #ICE #Trump

NEW: After four witnesses recanted, a Pennsylvania man spent 20 ...

2026-10-13T13:30:35Z

NEW: After four witnesses recanted, a Pennsylvania man spent 20 years in prison insisting he was innocent of murder.

Records show his lawyer, to whom he wrote dozens of letters pleading for help, did little to help besides asking for more time.
https://www.propublica.org/article/post-conviction-legal-delays-pennsylvania?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Pennsylvania #Prison #CriminalJustice #Law #Philadelphia #Legal

NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who ...

2026-10-13T12:30:23Z

NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food.

Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamp-snap-benefits-theft-skimmers-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SNAP #Crime #Theft #Fraud #Congress #Government #Poverty #Hunger

NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a ...

2026-10-10T13:30:19Z

NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol.

A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall.

The tribe was warned: Do not interfere.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tohono-oodham-nation-arizona-border-wall?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Indigenous #Native #Arizona #Trump #BorderPatrol #Border

WATCH: Reporter Jake Pearson had an idea: Ask ProPublica editors ...

2026-10-10T12:30:10Z

WATCH: Reporter Jake Pearson had an idea: Ask ProPublica editors for $$$, mimic the patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings and see if the app would encourage his recklessness.

What he didn’t expect was how little pushback he’d get as he spiraled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8IyGjdY1sg

#Video #Sports #Gambling #Journalism #Regulation #Consumer #Technology

NEW: The New York State Gaming Commission announced plans to ...

2026-10-09T20:51:20Z

NEW: The New York State Gaming Commission announced plans to require online sportsbooks to beef up user protections.

The move follows reporting by ProPublica and others that raised questions about how apps like DraftKings treat problem gamblers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-gaming-commission-sports-betting-regulation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NewYork #NY #Sports #Gambling #DraftKings #Regulation #Consumer

NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help ...

2026-10-09T16:48:19Z

NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense.

After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-kollitides-pentagon-contracts-alvarez-marsal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Pentagon #Defense #Government #USPolitics #Law #Ethics #PrivateEquity #Military

We’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica ...

2026-10-09T14:30:15Z

We’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your Health Insurance Denial.
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ProPublica is looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization impacts patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests, medical equipment or medication.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/propublica-health-insurance-prior-authorization-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Health #Insurance #Medicine #HealthInsurance #Journalism

An Arizona County’s “Housing Hub” Is a Dead End for Many ...

2026-10-09T13:35:15Z

An Arizona County’s “Housing Hub” Is a Dead End for Many Homeless Families
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Family homelessness in Maricopa County has risen to its highest level in more than a decade. But shelters are full, and it can take months to get in, leaving parents with little to no help.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-homeless-hub-hotline-shelters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arizona #MaricopaCounty #Homeless #Housing #Shelter #Family

NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken ...

2026-10-09T12:30:05Z

NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security.

We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-travel-security-costs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #KenPaxton #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Security #Travel #Money #Ethics

U.S. Lawmakers Launch Sexual Abuse Probe of Youth Sports Giant ...

2026-10-08T18:19:48Z

U.S. Lawmakers Launch Sexual Abuse Probe of Youth Sports Giant AAU
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Bipartisan leadership of a powerful House committee demanded answers from the Amateur Athletic Union after a ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found that the massive youth sports organization has failed to protect kids from sexual abuse.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aau-child-sex-abuse-house-energy-commerce-committee-probe-amateur-athletic-union?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Sports #Athletics #Safety #Children #Youth #Abuse #Congress #Government

A new report obtained by ProPublica shows SpaceX used videos from ...

2026-10-08T14:30:06Z

A new report obtained by ProPublica shows SpaceX used videos from Club Med tourists and Disney cruise attendees to learn more about a Starship rocket crash last year, seemingly using “the public to fill the gap,” in the view of one expert.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-starship-caribbean-explosion-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Space #Technology #Tech #SpaceX #Starship #Caribbean #Disney

American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk ...

2026-10-08T13:30:18Z

American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
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Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products.
https://www.propublica.org/article/raw-milk-ban-children-pediatricians-health-safety-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #Food #Safety #Regulation #Children #Medicine #Dairy #RFKJr

Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the ...

2026-10-07T13:30:18Z

Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.
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Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who are homeless is failing them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-homeless-austin-davis-az-hugs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Phoenix #Arizona #Homeless #Housing #Family #Community

I’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened ...

2026-10-06T18:58:55Z

I’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened to Christa Pike Wasn’t an Anomaly.
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The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.
https://www.propublica.org/article/christa-pike-tennessee-execution-lethal-injection-failure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Crime #CriminalJustice #Law #Prison #DeathRow #ChristaPike #Tennessee #Texas #Florida

Amid public health concerns over online sports betting, major ...

2026-10-06T13:30:33Z

Amid public health concerns over online sports betting, major operators like DraftKings say their in-app safeguards can prevent users from spiraling out of control.

Our reporter decided to find out for himself whether that was true.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sports-gambling-draftkings-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Sports #Gambling #Betting #Baseball #Basketball #Football #Journalism

NEW: The government doesn’t track how often immigration ...

2026-10-06T12:30:19Z

NEW: The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did.

We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administration.
https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Immigration #Immigrants #USPolitics #Trump #ICE #DHS #CivilRights

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy ...

2026-10-05T14:30:29Z

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions?

This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one.

We founded two. Here’s how.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reporters-private-school-owners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #School #Teaching #Education #Children #Regulation #Media

NEW: Following our investigation with The Frontier, an Oklahoma ...

2026-10-05T13:30:45Z

NEW: Following our investigation with The Frontier, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste.

We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
https://www.propublica.org/article/enid-oklahoma-oil-disposal-well-plugged?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Water #Safety #Health

NEW: Oregon’s top housing official failed to report her ...

2026-10-02T14:30:18Z

NEW: Oregon’s top housing official failed to report her husband’s involvement with projects that her agency funds.

She disclosed this only after we asked.

“In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need ProPublica for this kind of thing,” a former official said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-housing-director-husband-conflict?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oregon #Housing #Government #Ethics #Conflict #Law

NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running ...

2026-10-02T13:45:10Z

NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school.

But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-private-schools-arkansas-west-virginia-north-carolina?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Journalism #Education #School #Teaching #Arkansas #WestVirginia #NorthCarolina #Parenting #Children #Family

A little-known effort to bring an AI learning tool into Texas ...

2026-10-01T21:30:05Z

A little-known effort to bring an AI learning tool into Texas public school classrooms began about a year ago, with the help of the state's top education official.

https://www.propublica.org/article/alpha-school-ai-texas-public-schools-mike-morath?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Education #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Teaching #Students #School

NEW on our “Paper Trail” podcast: Under Trump 2.0, the White ...

2026-10-01T14:30:22Z

NEW on our “Paper Trail” podcast: Under Trump 2.0, the White House has often ignored Congress to carry out its agenda.

Entire agencies, like USAID, have been gutted. ICE has grown explosively.

Behind it all is one man: Russell Vought.

Listen to our latest episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/who-is-russell-vought-trump-shadow-president?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Podcast #WhiteHouse #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Government #RussellVought

NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister ...

2026-10-01T13:30:20Z

NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died.

Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan.

Later, a fourth sibling died.

Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-faith-healing-multiple-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Religion #Law #Medicine #Health #Children #Family

A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little ...

2026-09-30T13:30:06Z

A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
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California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-raw-milk-regulation-emily-marris-moonlight-ridge-farm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #PublicHealth #California #Regulation #Food #Safety #Farming

A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal ...

2026-09-29T12:30:04Z

A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote.

It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
https://www.propublica.org/article/disabled-voters-nonprofit-funding-cuts-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Election #Vote #Voting #Trump #WhiteHouse #Disability #Disabled

NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the ...

2026-09-28T15:45:04Z

NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-plan-to-restrict-mail-voting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #USPS #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Law #USPolitics

Three bills proposed by an Arizona congresswoman would fund ...

2026-09-28T14:30:07Z

Three bills proposed by an Arizona congresswoman would fund literacy classes, dual language programs and training for teachers of students learning English in the state, in hopes of remedying gaps identified by Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-english-fluency-legislation-adelita-grijalva?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arizona #Education #Reading #Students #Teaching #Language

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the ...

2026-09-28T13:30:17Z

The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could be swept away.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hurricane-helene-flood-prone-areas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Hurricane #NorthCarolina #Law #Government #Flood #Policy #Safety

NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the ...

2026-09-26T13:45:04Z

NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards.

One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-sports-gambling-problem-vip-fanduel?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Sports #SportsBetting #Gambling #Draftkings #Baseball #Basketball #Tennis #Football

NEW: After Colorado officials failed to implement stricter ...

2026-09-25T17:30:05Z

NEW: After Colorado officials failed to implement stricter testing protocols that were planned to take effect in July, a marijuana manufacturer recalled dozens of products when a third-party lab found contamination by a chemical that can cause cancer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/marijuana-vape-recall-craft-colorado-regulatory-delay?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Colorado #Denver #Marijuana #Vape #Recall #Cancer #Chemical

NEW: Across the country, states have shuttered their youth ...

2026-09-25T13:30:08Z

NEW: Across the country, states have shuttered their youth prisons in recent years as research shows they aren’t effective at helping kids stay out of trouble after release.

Tennessee is building more.
https://www.propublica.org/article/juvenile-crime-decrease-youth-prisons-tennessee-construction?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Tennessee #Children #Prison #Crime #CriminalJustice #Data #Research

For decades, the Smithsonian Institution, which draws some 15 ...

2026-09-24T13:30:14Z

For decades, the Smithsonian Institution, which draws some 15 million visitors every year to its assemblage of 21 museums, has managed to stay mostly above the political fray. But that institutional exceptionalism is now imperiled as never before.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-smithsonian-museum-american-history-became-target-trump-culture-war?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Museum #Smithsonian #DC #History #Trump #Politics

NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins ...

2026-09-23T22:45:05Z

NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge.

Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
https://www.propublica.org/article/debunking-susan-collins-fbi-navatek-investigation-claims?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SusanCollins #Maine #FBI #Trump #Government #Corruption #Law #USPolitics #Journalism

Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer ...

2026-09-23T12:00:26Z

Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability.

Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-consumer-complaint-database?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Finance #Business #Consumer #Debt #Government #Accountability

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to ...

2026-09-22T11:30:06Z

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins.

Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Government #Corruption #Trump #FBI #DOJ #Maine #Ethics #SusanCollins

NEW: To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, ...

2026-09-11T13:30:18Z

NEW: To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education.

But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-disabilities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #School #Education #Disability #Accessibility #Students #Children #Parenting

NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule ...

2026-09-11T12:30:05Z

NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/methane-gas-epa-proposal-stripper-wells?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Environment #Energy #Methane #Climate #ClimateChange #EPA

I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of ...

2026-09-09T13:30:22Z

I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life.
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For years, I followed the case of Fred Steese, who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. When he died in August, it felt like the universe had dealt him yet another injustice.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wrongful-conviction-cancer-death?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Journalism #CriminalJustice #Law #Prison #Justice #Cancer #Death

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of ...

2026-09-09T12:00:43Z

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period.

The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ectopic-pregnancy-deaths-doubled-analysis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Women #Health #Pregnancy #Abortion #Data #Research #Texas

Federal prosecutors today charged ICE agent Christian Castro with ...

2026-09-03T17:49:10Z

Federal prosecutors today charged ICE agent Christian Castro with lying about the shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

Last night, we reported that the prosecutor had planned to bring more serious civil rights charges but was blocked by DOJ officials in D.C. 👇

NEW on “Paper Trail”: We now know harmful “forever ...

2026-09-03T14:30:06Z

NEW on “Paper Trail”: We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth.

Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret.

One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long. Listen:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Podcast #ForeverChemicals #PFAS #Science #Research #Health

These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been ...

2026-09-03T13:30:04Z

These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
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Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be deported rather than wait in detention centers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detention-judges-habeas-petitions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Law #Immigration #ICE #Judge #Mississippi #Louisiana #Oklahoma #Minnesota

Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From ...

2026-08-28T14:30:07Z

Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
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The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.
https://www.propublica.org/article/syracuse-sexual-assault-lawsuit-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #University #College #Students #SexualAssault #Law #Lawsuit #Transparency #Records

NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or ...

2026-08-28T13:30:15Z

NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks.

“They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-calls-camp-east-montana-texas-detention?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #Immigration #ICE #Emergency #Medicine #Health

NEW: In Idaho, prosecutors can't file neglect or manslaughter ...

2026-08-26T13:30:07Z

NEW: In Idaho, prosecutors can't file neglect or manslaughter charges against parents who say their faith prohibited giving lifesaving medical care to their children.

Until the early 1970s, that wasn’t the case.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-law-faith-healing-exemption?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Parenting #Children #Health #History #Medicine #Law

The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco --- ...

2026-08-26T12:30:04Z

The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
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ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/army-artillery-factory-fiasco-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Army #Texas #Military #Defense #Ukraine #Pentagon #Government #Tech

NEW: After U.S. missile strikes killed hundreds of civilians in ...

2026-08-25T15:30:08Z

NEW: After U.S. missile strikes killed hundreds of civilians in Iran and Yemen, the Defense Department is poised to reinstate a program meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. Pete Hegseth gutted it over the objections of top commanders.

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mitigation-response-trump-defense-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Hegseth #PeteHegseth #Defense #Pentagon #Iran #Trump #Military

NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to ...

2026-08-25T13:30:05Z

NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care.

Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Law #Children #Religion #Health #Medicine #Parenting

His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. ...

2026-08-24T14:30:07Z

His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major Flaws.
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Dr. Craig Towers was hailed as a hero for his research on detoxing pregnant opioid users. After he published a study that found naltrexone could help patients stay off drugs, addiction specialists started asking if his work was too good to be true.
https://www.propublica.org/article/craig-towers-knoxville-tennessee-newborn-withdrawal-study?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Pregnancy #Women #Drugs #Health #Medicine #Research #Science

Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State ...

2026-08-21T14:30:12Z

Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret.
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The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-affordable-housing-cost-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oregon #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Transparency

NEW: Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban ...

2026-08-21T13:30:04Z

NEW: Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors.

Campaign messaging never explicitly states the amendment would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved only two years ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Missouri #GOP #Republican #LGBTQ #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics

NEW on “Paper Trail”: Hundreds of immigration agents stormed ...

2026-08-20T14:30:09Z

NEW on “Paper Trail”: Hundreds of immigration agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex overnight last year, some rappelling down from a helicopter.

Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested “terrorists.”

We uncovered a very different story. Listen to the full episode:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/why-chicago-south-shore-apartment-immigration-raid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Immigration #ICE #Chicago #Venezuela #Immigrant #Trump #USPolitics #Podcast #Journalism

Parents of kids who play sports: Did you know that there’s an ...

2026-08-20T13:30:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…fg4g
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Parents of kids who play sports: Did you know that there’s an official list you can check to see if their coaches have been accused of sexual abuse?

Here’s how to use it — and how to let us know what you find.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/what-parents-should-know-sexual-abuse-youth-sports-aau-safesport?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Sports #Children #Coach #Abuse #SexualAbuse #Parenting #Parents #Family

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from ...

2026-08-20T13:30:09Z

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ryan-richardson-pharr-texas-usa-volleyball-safesport-abuse-teens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Sports #Children #Volleyball #Texas #Abuse #Parenting

Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators ...

2026-08-19T14:30:17Z

Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-health-data-africa-humanitarian-aid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Congress #Trump #Health #PublicHealth #Data #Africa #Geopolitics

NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are ...

2026-08-18T13:30:13Z

NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
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In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-cases-vaccines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #PublicHealth #Measles #Medicine #Children #Vaccines #Science

NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses ...

2026-08-17T13:30:09Z

NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs.

But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-wisconsin-atlas-preparatory?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #School #Wisconsin #Milwaukee #Parenting #Children

How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters ...

2026-08-15T14:30:14Z

How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noncitizen-voting-trump-homeland-security-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Election #Vote #Voting #USPolitics #DHS #Law

Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law ...

2026-08-14T14:30:09Z

Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations after Trump’s Justice Department charged the group with fraud.

We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donor-advised-funds-charity-contributions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Charity #Nonprofit #Trump #DOJ #Law #Philanthropy #USPolitics

How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters ...

2026-08-14T13:30:04Z

How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donor-advised-funds-charity-contributions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Voting #DHS #Law #Politics

The AAU, one of the country's largest youth sports ...

2026-08-13T13:30:06Z

The AAU, one of the country's largest youth sports organizations, is failing on nearly every level to adequately protect children in its care from sexual abuse, a ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/aau-youth-sports-sexual-abuse-failure-amateur-athletic-union?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Sports #Basketball #Children #Parenting #Family #Kids

NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by ...

2026-08-12T13:30:12Z

NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company.

Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wayne-halfway-house-jason-crews-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Tennessee #Children #Prison #Abuse #CriminalJustice

NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out ...

2026-08-12T12:30:04Z

NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking.

Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Defense #Military #Ukraine #Government #Technology #Tech

At ProPublica, we file a lot of public records requests. But ...

2026-08-11T13:30:07Z

At ProPublica, we file a lot of public records requests.

But since the start of the second Trump administration, writes news apps developer Al Shaw, getting public records has become a “Kafkaesque” process of bounced emails and broken portals.
https://www.propublica.org/article/foia-requests-responses?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Accountability #Journalism #Media #Records #Data #Government #Trump

NEW: The EPA hasn’t reevaluated its cleanup guidelines for ...

2026-08-10T13:30:21Z

NEW: The EPA hasn’t reevaluated its cleanup guidelines for homes in a residential Superfund site in Omaha, Nebraska, in 17 years, despite research showing that even small amounts of lead can cause IQ loss in children and heart attacks in adults.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-remediation-epa-standards-omaha-nebraska?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #EPA #Environment #Government #Omaha #Children #Health #Family

Trump administration officials suggested funding research on ...

2026-08-07T14:30:15Z

Trump administration officials suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa.

“It’s laughable to suggest that on the African continent, the prime issue of human rights concern is whites in South Africa,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-afrikaner-south-africa-money?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #HumanRights #Funding #Politics

Citing a previous ProPublica investigation, House Democrats ...

2026-08-07T13:30:04Z

Citing a previous ProPublica investigation, House Democrats pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins for answers in a letter last week about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under the Trump administration.
https://www.propublica.org/article/democrats-veterans-affairs-doug-collins-letter-mental-health?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Veterans #Congress #Government #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Trump

As we dug into a little-known church, we started to see a ...

2026-08-06T20:38:15Z

As we dug into a little-known church, we started to see a pattern: women describing similar abuse; a preacher who knew what was going on.

And the same prescription for the problem: forgiving and forgetting it happened.

Listen to the latest episode of "Paper Trail": https://www.propublica.org/podcast/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-sexual-abuse-clint-massie?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Church #Religion #Minnesota #Police #Children #Abuse

He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned ...

2026-08-06T13:30:09Z

He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
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Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-wrongful-conviction-compensation-liz-murrill-elvis-brooks?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Louisiana #Law #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Justice #Legal

Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City ...

2026-08-05T13:30:07Z

Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?
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After our tests showed many yards still contain toxic lead after remediation, the city’s response to residents has been inconsistent. Some received additional testing and cleanup, while others were denied.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-retesting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Omaha #Nebraska #EPA #Environment #Testing #Family

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's willing to ...

2026-08-04T14:30:06Z

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's willing to "micromanage" Corpus Christi's water crisis.

But he's gone quiet on the financial troubles of an agency that could help expand the region's water supply — despite Abbott having appointed its entire board.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-nueces-river-authority?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Water #TX #Politics #River #GregAbbott #CorpusChristi

The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, ...

2026-08-04T13:30:23Z

The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site.

New soil tests by The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-contamination-epa-superfund-omaha-nebraska-analysis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Omaha #Nebraska #Environment #Pollution #Children #Health #EPA

A 2024 High Country News-ProPublica investigation found that ...

2026-08-03T14:30:06Z

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A 2024 High Country News-ProPublica investigation found that solar developer Avangrid continued to push for the project despite being warned of its threats to Native food supply, ceremonies and history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-state-is-leaving-tribal-cultural-resources-at-mercy-of-solar-developers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Washington #Indigenous #Native #Solar #Energy #RenewableEnergy

NEW: Renewable energy developer Avangrid has pulled a ...

2026-08-03T14:30:06Z

NEW: Renewable energy developer Avangrid has pulled a long-standing and controversial solar project on Washington’s Badger Mountain, a site sacred to Indigenous nations, following years of delays and tribal objections.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-badger-mountain-solar-project-canceled-avangrid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Washington #Indigenous #Native #Solar #Energy #RenewableEnergy

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an ...

2026-08-03T12:30:05Z

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts-brendan-carr-ethics-complaint-warner-bros-merger?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #FCC #Government #Ethics #USPolitics #Paramount #CBS #Entertainment #Business