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2026-08-28 16:30:07 CEST

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

2026-08-28 15:30:15 CEST

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

2026-08-26 15:30:07 CEST

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

2026-08-26 14:30:04 CEST

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

2026-08-25 17:30:08 CEST

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

2026-08-25 15:30:05 CEST

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

2026-08-24 16:30:07 CEST

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

2026-08-21 16:30:12 CEST

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

2026-08-21 15:30:04 CEST

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

2026-08-20 16:30:09 CEST

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

2026-08-20 15:30:09 CEST

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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

2026-08-20 15:30:09 CEST

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

2026-08-19 16:30:17 CEST

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

2026-08-18 15:30:13 CEST

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

2026-08-17 15:30:09 CEST

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

2026-08-15 16:30:14 CEST

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

2026-08-14 16:30:09 CEST

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

2026-08-14 15:30:04 CEST

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

2026-08-13 15:30:06 CEST

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

2026-08-12 15:30:12 CEST

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

2026-08-12 14:30:04 CEST

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

2026-08-11 15:30:07 CEST

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

2026-08-10 15:30:21 CEST

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

2026-08-07 16:30:15 CEST

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

2026-08-07 15:30:04 CEST

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

2026-08-06 22:38:15 CEST

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

2026-08-06 15:30:09 CEST

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

2026-08-05 15:30:07 CEST

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

2026-08-04 16:30:06 CEST

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

2026-08-04 15:30:23 CEST

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

2026-08-03 16:30:06 CEST

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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

2026-08-03 16:30:06 CEST

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.
By @nprofile…htem
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

2026-08-03 14:30:05 CEST

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

2026-08-02 23:00:08 CEST

What’s going on with America’s farms and food?
Join us on Aug. 4 for a members-only discussion about America’s farms, how our food is made and where regulations are failing to keep workers and consumers safe.
Not yet a member? Any donation makes you one: https://give.propublica.org/campaign/726982/donate?c_src=mstdn&c_src2=exposing-harm-food-invite
#News #Agriculture #Farming #Food #Safety #Regulation #Cyclospora

2026-07-31 16:30:12 CEST

California schools will soon be able to easily search the names of bus drivers, janitors and other school support staff to see if they have substantiated claims of misconduct.
Why hasn’t a similar system for teachers succeeded?
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-teacher-misconduct-database-bill-failed-al-muratsuchi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #California #School #Teacher #Education #Data #Law #Transparency

2026-07-31 15:30:04 CEST

Trump’s Canada Tariffs Decimate Border Crossings, Business in Upper Michigan
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Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sign of relief.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-canada-tariffs-michigan-sault-ste-marie?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Michigan #Canada #Trump #Tariffs #Trade #Business #Economy

2026-07-30 15:30:10 CEST

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls.
But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused.
https://www.propublica.org/article/andy-beshear-kentucky-opioid-drug-crisis-medicaid-spending-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Kentucky #AndyBeshear #Medicaid #Fraud #Healthcare #Health #Drugs

2026-07-29 22:54:29 CEST

Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate
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The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit operators.
https://www.propublica.org/article/transdev-senate-oversight-bus-crashes-public-transit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Bus #Safety #Crash #School #Transit #Transportation #Congress

2026-07-29 15:30:07 CEST

When Microsoft reviewed the early results of Anthropic’s new AI model for cybersecurity, it was a sobering scene: Hundreds of bugs were identified, many of them critical.
What followed was a “mad dash” to patch them — but many more remain.
https://www.propublica.org/article/anthropic-mythos-microsoft-software-vulnerabilities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Cybersecurity #Tech #Microsoft #Technology #Anthropic #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hacking

2026-07-28 16:30:15 CEST

This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
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Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nick-adams-state-flag-charity-civics-state-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #MAGA #Trump #Nonprofit #Charity #Funding #Education #USPolitics

2026-07-28 15:30:04 CEST

NEW: ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of Justice Department lawyers.
We found judges nominated by both parties who are frustrated that they can no longer take the government at its word.
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Law #Legal #Courts #Trump #Justice #Ethics #USPolitics

2026-07-27 15:30:09 CEST

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding.
One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-science-grants-russell-vought-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Science #Physics #Research #Funding #Academia

2026-07-24 17:09:43 CEST

NEW: James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-james-talarico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Fraud #Law #KenPaxton #JamesTalarico

2026-07-24 15:30:12 CEST

NEW: The owner of a private school in Arkansas ordered students to scrub floors and urged them to attack a classmate. Few records exist of the incident.
Reporter Jennifer Smith Richards pieced together what happened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-private-school-abuse-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arkansas #School #Education #Children #Violence #Trauma #Parenting

2026-07-23 14:30:07 CEST

Reporter Annie Waldman toured Mark McAfee’s Raw Farm for a story about raw milk’s foothold in America despite its health dangers. Here’s what he told her about recalls, outbreaks and his relationship with the federal government.
https://www.propublica.org/article/5-quotes-raw-milk-mark-mcafee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Farming #Health #California #Wellness

2026-07-22 14:30:20 CEST

Farmers want the Trump administration to overhaul the H-2A visa program to make it more favorable to their businesses. But cutting red tape could cut labor protections, too.
https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-protections-profits-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Agriculture #Law #Trump #Immigration #Immigrants #Farm #Labor

2026-07-21 15:30:07 CEST

NEW: ProPublica journalist Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers.
It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
https://projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Food #Farm #Agriculture #Ethics #Labor #Groceries #Immigrant #Workers

2026-07-20 16:30:37 CEST

Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.
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As ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune investigated child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, reporters found a common theme: children who were victims of sexual misconduct going on to repeat the behavior.
https://www.propublica.org/article/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-child-sexual-assault-cycle-abuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Minnesota #Washington #Religion #Children #SexualAssault #Abuse #Church

2026-07-20 15:30:41 CEST

NEW: On Alaska’s Adak Island, it costs more than $340,000 per year to provide hundreds of buildings — all but a few of them empty — with internet access no one uses.
The money being wasted is yours.
https://www.propublica.org/article/adak-island-alaska-internet-subsidy-fcc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Alaska #Internet #FCC #Wifi #Business #Government #Money

2026-07-18 14:30:13 CEST

A man was ordered to pay libel damages after calling the head of an Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.” Years later, he made similar claims against Islamic private schools applying for Texas’ voucher program, new legal filings say.
https://www.propublica.org/article/islamic-private-schools-texas-vouchers-sam-westrop?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#news #texas

2026-07-17 23:51:59 CEST

Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
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Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
https://www.propublica.org/article/human-rights-aid-right-wing-causes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #Europe #HumanRights #HumanitarianAid #Rightwing #Politics

2026-07-17 14:30:20 CEST

When ProPublica first spoke with law professor Bennett Gershman he described the Alice Sebold rape case as “the most heinous kind of prosecutorial misconduct.” But as a paid expert for Syracuse he now asserts the city “did not engage in misconduct.”
#LawEnforcement #Crime #Police #NewYork #Law
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2026-07-16 23:15:03 CEST

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In case you missed it:
Ken Paxton vowed to “stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity.” But experts say he may have violated state law by using an address where he no longer appears to live to vote in six elections in two years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Law #Vote #Election #Voting #Elections #TX #USPolitics

2026-07-16 23:12:19 CEST

NEW: After ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed Ken Paxton repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live, Democrats called for an investigation into whether the Texas attorney general committed election fraud.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-democrats-ken-paxton-voting-complaint?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Law #Election #Vote #Fraud #Investigation

2026-07-16 16:30:17 CEST

DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double
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The number of scammers trying to capitalize on immigrants’ fears by posing as lawyers and ICE agents has surged since Trump’s reelection, ProPublica found. Now, DHS says it is seeking to identify and find these fraudsters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-immigration-scams-fraud-homeland-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Fraud #Immigrant #Law #Trump

2026-07-13 16:30:08 CEST

In 2023, New Mexico’s AG ordered an investigation into one school district after ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth revealed Native students were expelled more often than any other group.
The investigation confirmed “substantial racial disparities.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-ag-report-gallup-mckinley-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewMexico #Law #School #Education #Indigenous #Children

2026-07-13 15:30:37 CEST

A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
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Under Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, security forces have worked with the U.S. to destroy drug labs and kill or capture crime bosses. But the president is saying she won’t extradite members of her own political party.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-mexico-drug-trade-sheinbaum?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Mexico #Crime #Drugs #Politics #Trump #USPolitics

2026-06-30 00:43:52 CEST

NEW: Former Louisiana death row inmate Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, convicted based in part on forensic evidence now widely regarded as junk science, is officially a free man.
“I am flooded with relief,” one of his lawyers said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-death-row-prisoner-freed-jimmie-duncan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Louisiana #CriminalJustice #Prison #Law #Justice #Crime

2026-06-05 21:14:00 CEST

NEW: Founder of Kentucky Drug Rehab Center Indicted on Fraud and Money Laundering Charges
Tim Robinson, the former CEO of Addiction Recovery Care, which once operated more than 40 drug treatment facilities statewide, was charged with attempting to resell millions of dollars worth of tax credits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-robinson-indicted-addiction-recovery-care
#news #kentucky #healthcare

2026-05-11 16:30:20 CEST

Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens.
Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-collins-georgia-senate-truck-crashes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Congress #Immigration #Trucks #Transportation #Driving

2026-05-06 14:30:09 CEST

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children

2026-04-02 19:30:10 CEST

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2026-04-01 15:30:05 CEST

Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #EPA #Environment #Oil #Gas #Energy #Government #Methane

2026-03-26 14:29:18 CET

Four female patients complained to the state medical commission about alleged sexual misconduct by Dr. Mark Mulholland from 2022 to 2024.
The board waited until April 2025 to file a formal statement of charges.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mark-mulholland-washington-sexual-misconduct-allegations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Washington #Health #Women #SexualAssault #Medicine #Seattle

2026-03-26 01:00:19 CET

Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable
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With the federal government refusing to identify agents or share evidence relating to the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the dispute has become a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.
https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-trump-ice-shooting-lawsuit-alex-pretti-renee-good?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Minnesota #ICE #Trump #Law #Constitution #Lawsuit #AlexPretti #ReneeGood

2026-03-23 13:30:31 CET

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Family #Deportation #Children #Data #Trump

2026-03-20 14:30:07 CET

Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor.
Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-hearing-c-section?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Florida #Pregnancy #Law #Courts #Medicine

2026-03-20 13:30:07 CET

To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nuclear #Energy #DOGE #Technology #Tech #Safety #Trump #AI

2026-03-19 16:30:32 CET

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2026-03-10 14:30:18 CET

Under the Trump administration, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor.
In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%.
Read our full investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-cfpb-experian-transunion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Data #Finance #PersonalFinance #Credit #Trump #DataViz #Research #Journalism
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2026-03-09 21:42:45 CET

The Navajo Nation report cited a 2022 New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica investigation that found Native students in New Mexico were disproportionately punished, with the Gallup-McKinley district — which has the nation's largest Indigenous student body — largely responsible.
https://www.propublica.org/article/gallup-mckinley-native-students-discipline-navajo-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Navajo #Native #Indigenous #Students #School #Education #NewMexico

2026-03-09 16:41:45 CET

WATCH: “Keep the family healthy.” Those were some of the last words Clifford Thomas’ mother said to him.
But in Albany, a town with a health care monopoly and no Medicaid expansion, staying healthy is a luxury that many are priced out of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgCsj9nDZQ
#Documentary #Video #Healthcare #Georgia #Medicaid #Health #Insurance #BlackMastodon #Family #Journalism

2026-03-05 15:30:11 CET

Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees
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Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate. The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Trump #USPolitics #Government #Data #Research #Journalism #Law #Ethics

2026-03-05 14:30:06 CET

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-financial-disclosures-steve-feinberg?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Government #USPolitics #Law #Finance #Data #Research

2026-03-04 16:18:46 CET

NEW: When asked if top aide Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem replied, “No.”
But internal DHS records contradict her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-misled-senate-judiciary-corey-lewandowski-contracts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=3-04
#news #government #kristinoem #dhs #congress #trump

2026-03-04 15:30:12 CET

During his reelection campaign last fall, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said you can’t “arrest your way” out of homelessness.
But a ProPublica analysis found that under Keller, the city has increasingly jailed homeless people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homelessness-citations-surge-tim-keller?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Albuquerque #NewMexico #Homeless #Housing #Police #Prison #Law

2026-03-04 14:00:24 CET

#ICYMI: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.
(Published Nov. 2025)
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DHS #KristiNoem #ICE #Government #USPolitics #Law #Advertising

2026-03-03 15:30:16 CET

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia
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Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nike #Indonesia #Labor #Jobs #Work #Wages #Factory

2026-03-02 18:20:53 CET

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2026-03-02 17:59:08 CET

ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-office-foia-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Law #USPolitics #Journalism #Media #FOIA #Records

2026-03-02 16:30:19 CET

For the fourth year, ProPublica will invite up to 10 news editors from media companies across the country to participate in a yearlong investigative editing training program, led by our newsroom’s award-winning staff.
Interested? Apply by March 30.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-investigative-editor-training-program-2026?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Media #Journalism #Investigation #Editing #Education

2026-03-02 15:30:16 CET

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We know that emergency managers are critically important but aren’t often thought about until after tragedy strikes.
We are building a source network to fuel in-depth coverage of the nation’s emergency preparedness. Share your expertise here: https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/emergency-managers-disaster-needs-survey?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #Survey #Emergency #Disaster #FEMA

2026-03-02 15:30:15 CET

What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever
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We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/emergency-managers-united-states-resource-needs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Emergency #Disaster #Resources #Tornado #Hurricane #FEMA

2026-02-28 16:30:05 CET

From inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence survivor began collecting other prisoners’ stories of abuse.
Their accounts helped shape a new Oklahoma law intended to reduce their sentences — but will it work?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-survey-domestic-violence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oklahoma #Women #Prison #Abuse #DomesticViolence #Law

2026-02-28 15:30:05 CET

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-denier-summit-trump-midterms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Election #Democracy #USPolitics #Midterms #Law

2026-02-27 15:30:06 CET

A push for more transparency on drug labels.
Clearer guidance for doctors in Texas on how to legally provide abortions.
Here’s a look at some recent impact from our newsroom.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-investigations-february-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Journalism #Media #Nonprofit #Law #USPolitics

2026-02-26 17:30:12 CET

Senate leaders are urging the Department of Defense to prioritize the purchase of generic drugs manufactured in the U.S., warning that the country’s overreliance on foreign factories poses an “existential risk” to the military.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-warn-hegseth-foreign-drug-manufacturers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOD #Military #Congress #Senate #Drugs #Medicine

2026-02-26 17:11:39 CET

Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils and paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others.
After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dilley-detention-center-kids-art-removal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #DHS #Texas #Immigration #Children #Immigrants #Family #Art

2026-02-25 18:38:57 CET

NEW: Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs
The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bop-prison-staffing-shortages-ice-democrats-william-marshall
#News #ICE #Prison #CriminalJustice #Democrats

2026-02-25 15:47:51 CET

NEW: Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files
“None of this has been thought through very carefully,” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cia-law-enforcement-records-privacy-intelligence-community
#news #Trump #CIA #LawEnforcement #Privacy #Government #criminaljustice

2026-02-24 15:33:48 CET

NEW: If Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team wins this case, thousands of immigrant moms and dads could be exposed to deportation for minor involvement in the juvenile court system, a new realm for President Trump’s deportation regime.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-deportation-family-court-sotero-mendoza-rivera
#news #trump #immigration #deportation #PamBondi #government #courts #law #criminaljustice

2026-02-23 23:11:10 CET

At the new ProPublica Narrated, you can listen to narrated versions of our important new investigations alongside the most compelling journalism from the ProPublica archives.
Give it a listen here:
https://www.propublica.org/propublica-narrated-podcast
#news #podcasts #journalism

2026-02-23 14:56:17 CET

NEW: ProPublica recently reported that the U.S. Forest Service knowingly issued protective gear containing #PFAS to wildland firefighters.
The agency says it has now stopped distributing those garments.
https://www.propublica.org/article/pfas-firefighter-gear-forest-service
#news #wildfires #safety #foreverchemicals #government

2026-02-22 14:30:52 CET

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back
An #Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.
Why are nearly all of them still in prison?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-survivors-act-domestic-violence
#news #crime #criminaljustice #domesticviolence #law #justice #women #courts

2026-02-20 21:17:20 CET

NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.
That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.
https://www.propublica.org/article/south-carolina-measles-hospital-admissions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=2-20
#News #SouthCarolina #Measles #Health #HealthCare

2026-02-20 01:30:14 CET

NEW: Powerful #Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had repeatedly blocked lawmakers from voting on a bipartisan bill to extend postpartum #Medicaid coverage.
The legislation now goes to Gov. Tony Evers, who is expected to sign it into law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-new-mothers-robin-vos?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=2-19
#news #government #parents #healthcare #mom

2026-02-19 19:30:48 CET

NEW: EmblemHealth has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with the New York attorney general’s office after failing to correct provider directory errors that made it more difficult for customers to get mental health care.
https://www.propublica.org/article/emblem-health-ghost-network-settlement-mental-health?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-mastodon-post&utm_content=2-19
#news #NewYork #Insurance #Law #health #mentalhealth

2026-02-11 15:30:09 CET

Roughly 5,000 North Carolina homeowners affected by Hurricane Helene are awaiting help from the state.
But records show problems like rigid rules and insufficient staffing, which occurred in a previous rebuilding program, are starting to surface.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hurricane-helene-housing-recovery-program-lessons?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NorthCarolina #Government #Hurricane #Housing #Family #House

2026-02-10 21:30:10 CET

A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.
It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Law #GOP #Republicans

2026-02-10 18:50:24 CET

Firefighters Wore Gear Containing “Forever Chemicals.” The Forest Service Knew and Stayed Silent for Years.
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As early as 2021, government officials were alerted to the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in pants used by wildland firefighters, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-forever-chemical-firefighter-pfas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PFAS #Fire #WIldfires #Government #Chemicals #Safety #Health