“Do Your Job.” How the Railroad Industry Intimidates Employees Into Putting Speed Before Safety

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Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him. This Is How They Did It.

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Appeals Court Sides With Author Sued Over ProPublica Article

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Residential Hotels Got Contracts Under the Los Angeles Mayor’s Homelessness Program Despite Violations

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Columbia University to Set Up $100 Million Fund for Patients of Predator OB-GYN

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In a Historic First, the Supreme Court Has Adopted a Code of Ethics

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OSHA Investigates Small Dairy Farms So Rarely That Many Worker Advocates Don’t Bother to Report Deaths and Injuries

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Mississippi Jailed More Than 800 People Awaiting Psychiatric Treatment in a Year. Just One Jail Meets State Standards.

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Maine Rarely Sanctions Residential Care Facilities Even After Severe Abuse or Neglect Incidents

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One Woman Died on an Alaska Mayor’s Property. Then Another. No One Has Ever Been Charged.

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Officials Approve $8 Million for Housing for Immigrant Dairy Workers in Wisconsin. Sheriff’s Office Will Try to Close Language Gaps.

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Virginia Lawmaker Calls for Commission to Study State Universities’ History of Uprooting Black Communities

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Animating the “Infinite Nightmare” of Night Raids in Afghanistan

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The Historic Claims That Put a Few California Farming Families First in Line for Colorado River Water

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How Warren Buffett Privately Traded in Stocks That Berkshire Hathaway Was Buying and Selling

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You Have a Right to Know Why a Health Insurer Denied Your Claim. Some Insurers Still Won’t Tell You.

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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

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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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