Inside Illinois’ Youth Lockups, Children Go Without Basic Services and Face “Excessive” Punishments

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Meet ProPublica’s 2023 Class of Emerging Reporters

by Talia Buford ProPublica’s Emerging Reporters Program, now in its ninth year, provides support and mentorships to college students who are pursuing careers in investigative journalism and need additional training and financial support … | Continue reading

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Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment

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Here’s What Can Happen When Kids Age Out of Foster Care

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The EPA Has Found More Than a Dozen Contaminants in Drinking Water but Hasn’t Set Safety Limits on Them

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Los Angeles Mayor Orders Residential Hotels to Be Used for Temporary Homeless Housing

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The Scandal That Never Happened

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The Supreme Court Will Decide if Domestic Abuse Orders Can Bar People From Having Guns. Lives Could Be at Stake.

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A Texas Billionaire’s Associates Are Trying to Sink a School Tax Election via Their Dark Money Nonprofit

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UC Berkeley Takes Significant Step to Repatriate 4,400 Native American Human Remains

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People Who Used Recalled Philips Breathing Machines Face Painful Choices

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A Sweeping Report on a Michigan School Shooting Finds Multiple Failures and a Troubled Aftermath

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This Billion-Dollar Plan to Save Salmon Depends on a Giant Fish Vacuum

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In 2018, We Reported on an Abusive Cop. He Was Just Sentenced to a Year in Prison.

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Top Philips Executive Approved Sale of Defective Breathing Machines by Distributors, Despite Tests Showing Health Risks

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Secrecy Shields Powerful Adults in Our Juvenile Justice Systems. Kids Showed Me What’s Really Happening.

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Dairy Workers on Wisconsin’s Small Farms Are Dying. Many of Those Deaths Are Never Investigated.

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Voters in at Least 10 States Are Trying to Protect Abortion Rights. GOP Officials Are Throwing Up Roadblocks.

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Trump’s Court Whisperer Had a State Judicial Strategy. Its Full Extent Only Became Clear Years Later.

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Minnesota Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Controversial Contract-for-Deed Real Estate Practices

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A Prominent Museum Obtained Items From a Massacre of Native Americans in 1895. The Survivors’ Descendants Want Them Back.

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The Mississippi Supreme Court Moved to Ensure Poor Criminal Defendants Would Always Have a Lawyer. It’s Not Working.

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California Oil Companies Face Tougher Enforcement Under New Law

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The GOP’s Secret to Protecting Gerrymandered Electoral Maps? Claim Privilege.

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Western States Opposed Tribes’ Access to the Colorado River 70 Years Ago. History Is Repeating Itself.

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When Foster Parents Don’t Want to Give Back the Baby

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Local Newspapers Are Vanishing. How Should We Remember Them?

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How a Maneuver in Puerto Rico Led to a $29 Billion Tax Bill for Microsoft

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Legislation to Support Stillbirth Prevention Heads to House After Unanimous Senate Approval

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We Don’t Talk About Leonard

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These Men Say Their Utah Therapist Touched Them Inappropriately During Sessions Paid for by the LDS Church

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Columbia University Deals With Revelations About Its Decadeslong Failure to Stop a Predator

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U.S. Senator Expands Call for Crackdown on Philips Respironics

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Book Bans in Texas Spread as New State Law Takes Effect

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Police Resistance and Politics Undercut the Authority of Prosecutors Trying to Reform the Justice System

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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority

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Democratic Rep. Clyburn’s Role in Redrawn Congressional Maps Becomes Key in Supreme Court Redistricting Case

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Texas Took Over Its Largest School District, but Has Let Underperforming Charter Networks Expand

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A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.

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A Racist Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to Reclaim Their Story.

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A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder

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Senator Calls for DOJ Action Against Philips for Keeping CPAP Machine Complaints Secret

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It’s Not Personal: Why Clarence Thomas’ Trip to the Koch Summit Undermines His Ethics Defense

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Southeast Asian Casinos Emerge as Major Enablers of Global Cybercrime

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Louisiana Supreme Court Ruling Overturns Reform Law Intended to Fix “Three-Strikes” Sentences

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How a Big Pharma Company Stalled a Potentially Lifesaving Vaccine in Pursuit of Bigger Profits

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Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

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Billionaires gifted Clarence Thomas at least 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, box seats, and more

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood. | Continue reading

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