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2026-07-10 14:30:05 CEST

NEW: Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile.
The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chile-suspects-venezuela-cabello-killing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Venezuela #Chile #Law #Crime #Politics #Geopolitics #Trump #Maduro

2026-07-08 14:30:05 CEST

NEW: Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — investments.
https://www.propublica.org/article/401k-retirement-investment-plan-risk-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #WallStreet #Finance #PersonalFinance #Investment #Trump

2026-06-25 13:30:04 CEST

NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.
Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.
One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #Environment #Research #Science #Academia

2026-06-04 14:23:40 CEST

NEW: In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church’s culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the U.S. and Canada, ensnaring parents, children and grandchildren in the same cycle of abuse.
https://www.propublica.org/article/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-generational-sexual-abuse

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

2026-05-01 15:30:07 CEST

8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
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From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key takeaways from our recent investigation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Elections #ElectionIntegrity #Midterms

2026-04-27 16:30:29 CEST

A limited-government advocate in Texas persuaded five small towns to incorporate as “liberty cities,” which feature lean governments, little to no taxation and scant regulation.
At least two of them struggle to provide basic services.
https://www.propublica.org/article/art-martinez-de-vara-dallas-hero-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Dallas #Police #Law #Government #USPolitics

2026-04-27 15:30:11 CEST

Following our reporting, Connecticut legislators overhauled the state’s towing law last year to make it more fair for low-income residents who couldn’t afford the fees to get their cars back.
But we found that some towing companies aren’t following the new rules.
https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-towing-companies-ignore-new-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Connecticut #Towing #Cars #Law #Poverty #Housing #Landlords

2026-04-24 15:30:12 CEST

Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat.
Despite little reputable evidence for this, their fears have helped undercut efforts across the U.S. to broaden energy sources, slowing installations even as customer costs are rising.
https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Solar #Energy #Health #Michigan #Local #Law #PublicHealth

2026-04-23 15:30:07 CEST

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Are You Waiting for Opioid Settlement Money From Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? Get in Touch.
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Our recent investigation details changes to a bankruptcy settlement that leaves out some of the hardest-hit victims of the opioid crisis. Here’s how you can share your story with ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/purdue-endo-mallinckrodt-opioid-settlement-callout
#Health #Medicine #Drugs #Law #Legal #Pain #ChronicPain

2026-04-23 15:30:06 CEST

“A Punch in the Gut”: After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement
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Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/purdue-settlement-leaves-opioid-victims-behind?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #Medicine #Drugs #Law #Legal #Pain #ChronicPain

2026-04-22 17:56:25 CEST

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This was originally published in our Dispatches newsletter as an introduction to the full investigation here: https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige

2026-04-22 15:30:07 CEST

Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out.
When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.
Then things got weird.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printer-cairo-illinois-housing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Illinois #Housing #3DPrinting #House #FBI #Journalism

2026-04-21 15:30:12 CEST

The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan
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Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sebastian-gorka-trump-counterterrorism-czar-iran-terrorism?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Terrorism #FBI #Trump #IranWar #WhiteHouse #Security

2026-04-20 15:30:12 CEST

NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #DonaldTrump #WhiteHouse #Law #Legal #Family

2026-04-17 18:30:59 CEST

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.
A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps.
“We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-trump-immigration-ice-cbp-excessive-force
#news #trump #ice #minneapolis #immigration #government

2026-04-17 16:34:12 CEST

NEW: Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women
Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas. The state’s medical board ruled that the doctors’ substandard care led to the deaths and ordered them to complete extra training.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tmb-disciplines-doctors-ngumezi-crain-cases
#news #texas #abortion #doctors #pregnancy

2026-04-16 15:02:35 CEST

NEW: For more than a century, factories spewed toxic dust across Omaha, contaminating the soil and causing lead poisoning. We talked to experts about how to stay safe from lead exposure.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-contamination-omaha-nebraska-faq
#news #health #lead #nebraska #omaha

2026-04-16 13:57:08 CEST

NEW: 3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town?
Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis.
More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weirder things got.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige
#news #government #illinois #fbi #housing

2026-04-15 16:30:11 CEST

A ProPublica and MLK50 analysis shows that just 17 of more than 800 immigration arrests made by Trump’s crime-fighting task force in and around Memphis were for violent crimes.
82% of the immigration arrests followed a traffic stop.
https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-immigration-arrests-crime-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Memphis #Tennessee #Immigration #Crime #Data #Police

2026-04-15 15:30:10 CEST

For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across Omaha’s east side.
Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-kids-blood-tests?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nebraska #Omaha #Environment #Pollution #Children #Health

2026-04-14 21:09:51 CEST

NEW: Colorado Marijuana Regulators Pledge Crackdown on Intoxicating Hemp
Citing potential tax avoidance and “serious risks to public safety,” the Marijuana Enforcement Division warned companies about selling illegal chemically converted hemp as marijuana.
https://www.propublica.org/article/colorado-marijuana-regulators-crackdown-intoxicating-hemp
#news #marijuana #colorado #government #drugs

2026-04-14 16:55:53 CEST

NEW: As Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled
ProPublica and FRONTLINE found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement.
Over and over, the accusations fell apart under scrutiny.
https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-doj-trump-arrests-convictions
#news #trump #ice #cbp #LosAngeles #Minneapolis #doj #government

2026-04-13 17:04:12 CEST

NEW: Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine.
So, the real Robert did some reporting of his own.
https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter
#news #journalism #privacy

2026-04-13 16:03:05 CEST

NEW: Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held.
But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover
#news #government #trump #elections #democracy

2026-04-11 01:47:48 CEST

NEW: A Judge Worried a Proposed Settlement Doesn’t Do Enough to Help Victims. The DOJ Is Still Moving Forward.
The proposed $68 million settlement involves a Texas land developer that the DOJ had previously accused of preying on Hispanic residents.
It includes no money for victims but more than $20 million for police and immigration enforcement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/colony-ridge-settlement-court-hearing-doj
#news #government #trump #texas #criminaljustice #doj

2026-04-10 18:03:06 CEST

NEW: Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Fix to School Threats Law After Kids Were Arrested for Jokes and Misunderstandings
Tennessee lawmakers voted to change a controversial law so school officials will now only have to report threats they deem “credible.” It comes after an investigation by ProPublica and WPLN that showed children were wrongly ensnared by the legislation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-changed
#news #kids #schools #police #criminaljustice #parents #Tennessee

2026-04-09 19:10:18 CEST

NEW: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims
The Biden administration sued a Texas land developer accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents.
Trump’s DOJ is now offering an unprecedented settlement that experts say could target the very people who were harmed by the developer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-colony-ridge-texas-settlement-victims
#news #government #texas #trump #doj

2026-04-09 15:51:15 CEST

NEW: They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud.
Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others.
But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kentucky-addiction-recovery-care-medicaid-fraud
#news #healthcare #kentucky #drugs

2026-04-09 15:15:59 CEST

NEW: For-Profit Hospital Chain Never Put Aside Money for Malpractice Insurance to Compensate Injured Patients
Eager to save money, Prospect Medical promised to “self-insure” malpractice claims brought against its doctors and hospitals. The chain’s bankruptcy now threatens to leave hundreds of patients whose claims are pending with no recourse.
https://www.propublica.org/article/prospect-medical-malpractice-bankruptcy-hospitals-doctors-philadelphia
#news #health #healthcare #hospitals #doctors #insurance #government #business

2026-04-08 15:30:08 CEST

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-snap-benefits-trump-legislation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2026-04-07 15:30:08 CEST

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Who is Leonard Leo? He's a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.
But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
(Published Oct. 2023)
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #Law #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #Legal #GOP

2026-04-07 15:30:08 CEST

Fifteen laws in 11 states that could immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate-related legal claims have either been passed or are being debated.
Many bills are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FossilFuels #Oil #Gas #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Law

2026-04-06 15:30:11 CEST

Remember the cyberattacks on the U.S. government in the early 2020s? The Biden admin asked tech companies to help and got some “free” upgrades.
The Trump admin is doing similarly with AI. But our reporting shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Cybersecurity #Government #Trump #Microsoft #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology

2026-04-03 15:30:06 CEST

In 2023, the FDA deemed 19 peptides too unsafe to be dispensed by compounding pharmacies.
Now, under RFK Jr., the agency is poised to reverse itself — despite the fact that few clinical studies support claims of the peptides’ effectiveness or safety.
https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-safety-fda-compounding-pharmacies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FDA #RFKJr #Health #Peptides #Safety #Pharmacy

2026-04-02 19:30:10 CEST

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2026-04-02 15:30:07 CEST

The federal government is charging a skyrocketing number of migrants with trespassing in military zones.
But the boundaries can be hard to pinpoint — even for investigative reporters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/military-zones-border-migrants-charges?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #Military #Defense #Border #Law #Government #Journalism

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

2026-03-31 15:30:07 CEST

Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Law #Crime #Legal #Terrorism #Fraud #Drugs #PamBondi #Trump

2026-03-30 15:30:06 CEST

Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme.
Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent.
https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Arkansas #Health #Fraud #Law #Legal #USPolitics

2026-03-27 16:30:29 CET

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2026-03-27 15:30:13 CET

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Our 2023 investigation found that one man felt compelled to drop his sexual assault complaint against his therapist after a failed polygraph test.
The therapist, now in prison, continued to practice for two more years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-therapist-built-reputation-for-helping-gay-latter-day-saints-they-say-he-sexually-abused-them?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Utah #SexualAssault #Abuse #MentalHealth #Therapy #Police #Law

2026-03-27 15:30:12 CET

Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault
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A state legislator was moved to sponsor the bill — now signed into law — following a Salt Lake Tribune-ProPublica investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-polygraphs-sexual-assault-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Utah #Police #Law #SexualAssault #Abuse #MentalHealth

2026-03-27 14:10:04 CET

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.
This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Vaccines #Data #Science #Research #Model

2026-03-26 23:00:53 CET

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2026-03-26 15:43:56 CET

After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding.
These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-minneapolis-neighbors-protest-ice/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Minneapolis #MutualAid #Community #Minnesota #Photography

2026-03-26 15:43:12 CET

“We're not a racist organization, and we don't racial profile.”
That’s a claim that Sheriff Jerry Sheridan has made again and again.
But annual reviews of every traffic stop or arrest of a Latino person have repeatedly contradicted him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sheriff-jerry-sheridan-maricopa-county-court-oversight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arizona #MaricopaCounty #Police #Data #Courts #Racism

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

2026-03-25 22:00:47 CET

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2026-03-25 18:30:10 CET

After we documented children crawling through trains to get to school, the mayor of Hammond, Indiana, said train company Norfolk Southern pledged to help fund an overpass. Now the project is dead after the company reneged, he says.
Norfolk Southern denies making a commitment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/norfolk-southern-train-crossing-hammond-indiana-school-pedestrian-overpass?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trains #Children #Walking #Safety #Indiana #School

2026-03-25 14:30:07 CET

New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending
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Documents obtained by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting reveal that Tom Dundon was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” to waive proof-of-income requirements at Santander Consumer USA.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-moda-center-portland-oregon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Portland #Oregon #NBA #Basketball #Law #Cars #Loan #Business

2026-03-24 20:17:19 CET

Today, Congressional Democrats are spotlighting a particularly troubling part of Trump's immigration dragnet: the American kids — including some featured in ProPublica's reporting — who have been collateral damage in the deportation campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/american-kids-detained-trump-immigration-deportation-democrats-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Democrats #Immigration #Congress #Children #Immigrants #Deportation #Trump #ICE #DHS

2026-03-24 14:30:10 CET

This Louisiana prosecutor...
• Was forced to resign from the DA’s office for submitting false paperwork
• Withheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases
• Compared a Black teen to a dog and told the jury to “get rid of it”
Now he’s running for judge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hugo-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Louisiana #Law #Legal #Courts #Election #NewOrleans #Shreveport

2026-03-23 14:30:22 CET

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Our Nursing Home Inspect database helps you find issues that inspectors identified in more than 14,000 U.S. nursing homes.
To give the public more insight into who owns U.S. nursing homes, we just added a new search feature.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nursing-home-inspect-database-update?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Research #Data #Health #Healthcare #Journalism

2026-03-23 14:30:21 CET

The Trump Nominee Whose Company Is Suing the Trump Administration
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A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination as Ambassador to Hungary, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now, the facility is suing to stop collection.
https://www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #Healthcare #Medicaid #Law #Lawsuit #Trump

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 16:30:13 CET

This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January.
The shift follows weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread publication of letters written by detained children.
https://www.propublica.org/article/families-detained-at-dilley-plummets?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Texas #Immigrant #Family #USPolitics #Law

2026-03-20 15:30:13 CET

In 2024, Trump won Idaho by one of the largest margins in the country.
Now, its secretary of state is resisting the administration’s efforts to gather sensitive voter data ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-voter-data-trump-justice-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Idaho #Vote #Trump #Data #Election #Midterms #Law #GOP

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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2026-03-19 14:30:17 CET

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2026-03-19 13:30:07 CET

RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.
History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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2026-03-18 19:59:11 CET

Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
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Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of transportation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Wisconsin #USPolitics #Ethics #Transportation #Congress #Election

2026-03-18 17:30:32 CET

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2026-03-18 14:30:15 CET

Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.
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A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Microsoft #Cybersecurity #Government #Technology #Tech #Cloud

2026-03-17 20:01:06 CET

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2026-03-17 14:30:14 CET

Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.
We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oil #Gas #Environment #Oklahoma #Data #EPA #Regulation

2026-03-16 14:30:24 CET

One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land.
His case was dismissed, but federal prosecutors keep pursuing similar cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-military-trespassing-charges-pam-bondi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Legal #Courts #Immigration #USPolitics #DOJ #PamBondi

2026-03-14 19:37:43 CET

This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.
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David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for DHS while the Trump administration is relitigating the president’s baseless claims that the 2020 vote was stolen. https://www.propublica.org/article/david-harvilicz-homeland-security-voting-machines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2026-03-14 14:23:05 CET

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
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Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-ordered-c-sections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Florida #Law #Pregnancy #Medicine #Doctors #Courts #Legal

2026-03-13 17:30:07 CET

Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved limiting campaign contributions in 2020. Four years later, the Legislature finally adopted limits, but an advocate for tighter controls says recent changes render Oregon’s contribution limits “illusory.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-campaign-finance-reform-legislature-loopholes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oregon #Law #Election #Campaign #Finance #Reform #Government

2026-03-13 16:30:13 CET

Nevada Regulators Fine Peptide Providers at Anti-Aging Festival Where Two Women Became Critically Ill
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Three individuals, along with the group accused of supplying the peptides, were fined between $5,000 and $10,000 for their involvement in an incident at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival in Las Vegas last summer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/raadfest-peptide-injections-nevada-fines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nevada #LasVegas #Health #Medicine #Doctors #Peptide

2026-03-12 18:52:29 CET

NEW: Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say
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Unlike in Fulton County, Georgia, where actual ballots were seized, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-election-records-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arizona #Election #Phoenix #MaricopaCounty #Vote #Data #FBI

2026-03-12 14:30:07 CET

The FAA once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.
https://www.propublica.org/article/faa-trump-space-junk-safety-spacex-rockets?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Aviation #Space #Rockets #Safety #Trump

2026-03-12 13:30:11 CET

Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
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Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-mental-health-therapists-quit-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Military #Army #Veterans #MentalHealth #PTSD #Health #Psychology #Psychiatry #SocialWork #Trump

2026-03-11 21:28:51 CET

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Columbia's report was prompted by a 2023 ProPublica investigation that revealed how the university protected a predator who abused more than 1,000 patients during his nearly 25-year career.
https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-obgyn-sexually-assaulted-patients-for-20-years?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Columbia #University #Doctor #Health #Medicine #Women #SexualAbuse #Education #HigherEd

2026-03-11 21:23:19 CET

Decades after patients first warned Columbia University that one of its doctors sexually abused them, the school is acknowledging a culture of silence that allowed the abuse to continue and some school administrators are finally facing consequences.
https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-university-robert-hadden-obgyn-sexual-abuse-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Columbia #University #Doctors #Health #Women #Medicine #SexualAbuse #Education #HigherEd

2026-03-11 14:30:10 CET

DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases
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The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-trump-child-support-federal-parent-locator-service-immigration?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #DHS #Data #Children #Privacy #Government #USPolitics #Law #DomesticViolence

2026-03-10 22:30:10 CET

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
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A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Iran #IranWar #DOD #Pentagon #Trump #Military #Hegseth #PeteHegseth

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

2026-03-06 19:38:22 CET

New York Attorney General is Investigating Columbia for Allowing Predatory Doctor to See Patients Despite Warnings
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In 2023, ProPublica revealed that Columbia University had ignored women who accused OB-GYN Robert Hadden of sexual assault, enabling the doctor's abuse for decades. Survivors say they hope school officials will now be held accountable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-university-new-york-ag-investigation-robert-hadden-assault?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewYork #NYC #Columbia #University #Doctor #SexualAssault #Women #Law

2026-03-06 15:30:14 CET

The Navy is no longer allowed to shroud its criminal trials in secrecy and must provide public access to hearings and records, a federal judge ruled last month, the result of a yearslong lawsuit filed by ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/navy-court-records-ruling-first-amendment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Legal #Navy #Constitution #Transparency #Journalism #Media

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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