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NEW: Ahead of next week’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished institutional guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 presidential election.
Here’s what to know.
#News #Trump #Elections #Midterms #Vote #Voting #Democracy #USPolitics #MidtermElections
Amid investigations by ProPublica and others, officials across the country are demanding information about how online sportsbooks entice customers to keep betting — and proposing new rules to help protect consumers.
#News #Sports #Gambling #Law #Louisiana #Ohio #Congress #Tech #Technology
A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promises back.
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Oil #FossilFuels #UnitedNations #Science #Research
Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents
ProPublica has cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent detaining a citizen during the current Trump administration. Explore our database to learn more about each incident.
#News #ICE #DHS #Immigration #Trump #Law #Data #Research #Journalism #Minnesota #Texas #California #Illinois #Chicago #Minneapolis
10/29/2026, 4 engagements
NEW: Two new bills in Congress, backed by the plastics industry, promote misleading claims about recycling.
One environmental expert called the legislation “peak greenwashing.”
#News #Congress #Plastic #Environment #Recycling #Law #Consumer #Greenwashing
NEW on “Paper Trail”: President Trump claims hundreds of thousands of people who are not U.S. citizens have been illegally voting in our elections.
His own unprecedented efforts to root out these voters show otherwise, our investigation found.
Listen to our latest episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/homeland-security-investigations-noncitizen-voter-fraud-cases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Elections #Vote #Voting #Midterms #USPolitics #Immigration #Immigrants
NEW: A top U.S. official endorsed a key policy change on hormone replacement therapies while holding at least $115,000 in stock in a company that provides access to menopause treatments.
Ethics experts called it an “obvious conflict of interest.”
#News #Health #Women #Ethics #Conflict #Government #Business
10/29/2026, 2 engagements
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.
#News #Politics #USPolitics #Law #Trump #Election #Vote #Voting #Midterms
10/28/2026, 3 engagements
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.
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Pollution #Data #Regulation #Environment
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.
#News #Florida #Cybersecurity #Tech #Technology #Law #Data #Hacking
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.
#News #Memphis #Tennessee #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #USPolitics
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.
#News #ICE #Police #Immigration #Immigrant #Deportation #Texas
10/25/2026, 4 engagements
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.
#News #Food #SNAP #Poverty #Crime #Government #USDA #Tech #Technology
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.
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Fraud #Business #Investment #TX #Government #USPolitics
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.
#News #BirdFlu #H5N1 #Utah #Pandemic #PublicHealth #Health #Science
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.
#News #Washington #Nuclear #Energy #Labor #DepartmentOfEnergy #WorkersRights
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.
#Education #School #CivilRights #Government #Trump #Data #Journalism #Research #Parenting #Children #Teaching #Discrimination #SexaulAssault
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.
#News #Data #USPS #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #Rural #USPolitics
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.
#News #Colorado #Marijuana #Cannabis #Safety #Regulation #Health
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.
#News #NewMexico #Flood #Emergency #Safety #Rescue #FirstResponders
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.
#News #Trump #Venezuela #Oil #Gas #Economy #Politics #Geopolitics #Business
10/21/2026, 4 engagements
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.
#News #SouthCarolina #Defense #FBI #Government #Corruption #USPolitics
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.
#News #Immigration #Immigrants #ICE #DHS #USPolitics #Congress #Law
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.
#News #WestVirginia #Billionaires #Election #Midterms #School #Education #SchoolChoice
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.
#News #KenPaxton #Texas #Law #Senate #Election #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics
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.
#News #DHS #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Trump #USPolitics #Cybersecurity
10/19/2026, 2 engagements
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.
#News #Trump #Law #Judge #DOJ #Vote #Voting #Election #Lawsuit #Legal
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:
#News #SusanCollins #FBI #Trump #Maine #Defense #Government #Corruption #USPolitics #Law
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.
#News #Missouri #GOP #Republicans #Law #Courts #Legal #USPolitics
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.
#News #Texas #TX #Border #Security #Governor #GregAbbott #USPolitics
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.
#News #NewMexico #ElPaso #Texas #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #DataCenters #Energy #Pollution
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.
#News #Women #Abuse #Violence #Immigrants #Immigration #ICE #Trump
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.
#News #Pennsylvania #Prison #CriminalJustice #Law #Philadelphia #Legal
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.
#News #SNAP #Crime #Theft #Fraud #Congress #Government #Poverty #Hunger
10/13/2026, 5 engagements
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.
#News #Indigenous #Native #Arizona #Trump #BorderPatrol #Border
10/10/2026, 4 engagements
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.
#Video #Sports #Gambling #Journalism #Regulation #Consumer #Technology
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.
#News #NewYork #NY #Sports #Gambling #DraftKings #Regulation #Consumer
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.
#News #Pentagon #Defense #Government #USPolitics #Law #Ethics #PrivateEquity #Military
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.
#Health #Insurance #Medicine #HealthInsurance #Journalism
10/9/2026, 2 engagements
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.
#News #Arizona #MaricopaCounty #Homeless #Housing #Shelter #Family
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.
#News #KenPaxton #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Security #Travel #Money #Ethics
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.
#News #Sports #Athletics #Safety #Children #Youth #Abuse #Congress #Government
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.
#News #Space #Technology #Tech #SpaceX #Starship #Caribbean #Disney
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.
#News #Health #Food #Safety #Regulation #Children #Medicine #Dairy #RFKJr
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.
#News #Phoenix #Arizona #Homeless #Housing #Family #Community
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.
#News #Crime #CriminalJustice #Law #Prison #DeathRow #ChristaPike #Tennessee #Texas #Florida
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.
#News #Sports #Gambling #Betting #Baseball #Basketball #Football #Journalism
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.
#News #Immigration #Immigrants #USPolitics #Trump #ICE #DHS #CivilRights
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.
#Journalism #School #Teaching #Education #Children #Regulation #Media
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.
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Water #Safety #Health
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.
#News #Oregon #Housing #Government #Ethics #Conflict #Law
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.
#News #Journalism #Education #School #Teaching #Arkansas #WestVirginia #NorthCarolina #Parenting #Children #Family
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.
#News #Texas #Education #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Teaching #Students #School
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 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.
#News #Idaho #Religion #Law #Medicine #Health #Children #Family
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.
#News #Health #PublicHealth #California #Regulation #Food #Safety #Farming
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.
#News #Election #Vote #Voting #Trump #WhiteHouse #Disability #Disabled
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.
#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #USPS #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Law #USPolitics
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.
#News #Arizona #Education #Reading #Students #Teaching #Language
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.
#News #Hurricane #NorthCarolina #Law #Government #Flood #Policy #Safety
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.
#News #Sports #SportsBetting #Gambling #Draftkings #Baseball #Basketball #Tennis #Football
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.
#News #Colorado #Denver #Marijuana #Vape #Recall #Cancer #Chemical
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.
#News #Tennessee #Children #Prison #Crime #CriminalJustice #Data #Research
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.
#News #Museum #Smithsonian #DC #History #Trump #Politics
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.
#News #SusanCollins #Maine #FBI #Trump #Government #Corruption #Law #USPolitics #Journalism
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.
#News #Finance #Business #Consumer #Debt #Government #Accountability
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.
#News #Government #Corruption #Trump #FBI #DOJ #Maine #Ethics #SusanCollins
9/22/2026, 1 engagement
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.
#News #School #Education #Disability #Accessibility #Students #Children #Parenting
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.
#News #Environment #Energy #Methane #Climate #ClimateChange #EPA
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.
#Journalism #CriminalJustice #Law #Prison #Justice #Cancer #Death
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.
#News #Women #Health #Pregnancy #Abortion #Data #Research #Texas
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 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:
#Podcast #ForeverChemicals #PFAS #Science #Research #Health
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.
#News #Law #Immigration #ICE #Judge #Mississippi #Louisiana #Oklahoma #Minnesota
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.
#News #University #College #Students #SexualAssault #Law #Lawsuit #Transparency #Records
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.
#News #Texas #TX #Immigration #ICE #Emergency #Medicine #Health
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.
#News #Idaho #Parenting #Children #Health #History #Medicine #Law
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.
#News #Army #Texas #Military #Defense #Ukraine #Pentagon #Government #Tech
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.
#News #Hegseth #PeteHegseth #Defense #Pentagon #Iran #Trump #Military
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.
#News #Idaho #Law #Children #Religion #Health #Medicine #Parenting
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.
#News #Pregnancy #Women #Drugs #Health #Medicine #Research #Science
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.
#News #Oregon #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Transparency
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.
#News #Missouri #GOP #Republican #LGBTQ #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics
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:
#Immigration #ICE #Chicago #Venezuela #Immigrant #Trump #USPolitics #Podcast #Journalism
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.
#News #Sports #Children #Volleyball #Texas #Abuse #Parenting
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.
#News #Congress #Trump #Health #PublicHealth #Data #Africa #Geopolitics
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.
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Measles #Medicine #Children #Vaccines #Science
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.
#News #Education #School #Wisconsin #Milwaukee #Parenting #Children
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.
#News #Trump #Election #Vote #Voting #USPolitics #DHS #Law
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.
#News #Charity #Nonprofit #Trump #DOJ #Law #Philanthropy #USPolitics
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.
#News #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Voting #DHS #Law #Politics
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.
#News #Sports #Basketball #Children #Parenting #Family #Kids
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.
#News #Tennessee #Children #Prison #Abuse #CriminalJustice
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.
#News #Defense #Military #Ukraine #Government #Technology #Tech
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.
#News #Accountability #Journalism #Media #Records #Data #Government #Trump
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.
#News #EPA #Environment #Government #Omaha #Children #Health #Family
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.
#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #HumanRights #Funding #Politics
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.
#News #Veterans #Congress #Government #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Trump
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