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

by Jeremy Kohler ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. After the 2 … | Continue reading


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

by Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, illustrations by Nate Sweitzer for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest sto … | Continue reading


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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.

by Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, and Ryan Krull, Riverfront Times ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing aro … | Continue reading


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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

by Jonathan D. Salant and Michael D. Sallah, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Haajrah Gilani, Medill Investigative Lab; and Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abu … | Continue reading


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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

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News This article was produced for Verite News by Richard A. Webster, who covered Jefferson Parish as part of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in 2021-22. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like … | Continue reading


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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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Feuds amplified on social media may be fueling homicides among young Americans

ProPublica digs into a possible factor in rising homicides, beyond the obvious proliferation of guns # | Continue reading


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Climate Crisis Has Stranded 600 Million Outside Most Livable Environment

“Climate change is remapping where humans can exist on the planet. As optimum conditions shift away from the equator and toward the poles, more than 600 million people have already been stranded outside of a crucial environmental niche that scientists say best supports life.” # … | Continue reading


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Ryan Busse once worked for a major gun-maker. He now warns about the danger of growing radicalization in the industry. | Continue reading


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Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge. | Continue reading


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Inside the "Private and Confidential" Conservative Group That Promises to "Crush Liberal Dominance"

A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Federalist Society leader helped create a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court, and then received more than a billion dollars from a wealthy Chicago business owner to disburse to … | Continue reading


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After a Decade of Tracking Politicians' Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More

Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all. But service changes made after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter have rendered it impossible for us to continue tracking these tweets.(propublica.org) | Continue reading


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Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go? | Continue reading


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The Federal Program to Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina Shortchanged the Poor. New Data Proves It.

The complaints started as soon as Louisiana launched its massive program to help homeowners rebuild after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Community leaders said the largest rebuilding program in U.S. history would be unfair to the state's poorest residents.(propublica.org) | Continue reading


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They Trusted Their Prenatal Test. They Didn't Know the Industry Is an Unregulated "Wild West."

Amanda wanted to warn someone. In June 2021, her daughter - the one she and her husband had tried for three years to conceive - had died after only 28 hours. With an underdeveloped nose, she had battled for every breath. Nobody knew why. Later, an autopsy report revealed their da … | Continue reading


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How Google's Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World

Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.(propublica.org) | Continue reading


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Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why

Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting competition. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law

DeSantis' move, secretly aided by GOP-linked national operatives, came over the objections of the Republican-controlled state legislature. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was incensed. Late last year, the state's Republican legislature had drawn congressional maps that largely kept dis … | Continue reading


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The megadrought gripping the western states is only part of the problem. Alternative sources of water are also imperiled, and the nation’s food along with it. | Continue reading


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How to Apply

ProPublica's Local Reporting Network pays the salary (up to $75,000) and a stipend for benefits for reporters at news organizations across the country so they can spend a year working on an accountability journalism project of importance to their communities.(propublica.org) | Continue reading


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Mississippi's Missing Search Warrants Prevent Scrutiny of No-Knock Raids

Public defender Merrill Nordstrom walked into a Mississippi federal courtroom in May 2021 ready to challenge the no-knock search warrant behind her client's arrest. It had happened two years earlier, after an informant bought less than a gram of marijuana from Antoine Bryant. Pol … | Continue reading


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How America's Democracy Is "Ripe to be Exploited"

Voters in Sweden this month gave a leading role to a far-right party with neo-Nazi roots. Italy is also on the cusp of putting a party in power that has fascist origins. And of course, in the United States, one party has increasingly embraced election denialism and attempted to u … | Continue reading


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ProPublica exposes a million-dollar Instagram verification scheme exploiting music platforms

A jeweler. A plastic surgeon. An OnlyFans Model. They and others received a blue check in likely the biggest Instagram verification scheme revealed to date. After ProPublica started asking questions, Meta removed badges from over 300 accounts. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making

Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen. Now they’re trying a new tactic: buying out homeowners to avoid finishing the job. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

The 5G Government Fiasco That Nearly Closed the U.S. Air Travel System

The upgrade to 5G was supposed to bring a paradise of speedy wireless. But a chaotic process under the Trump administration, allowed to fester by the Biden administration, turned it into an epic disaster. The problems haven’t been solved. | Continue reading


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An upcoming execution in Oklahoma draws surprising critics in the deeply red state: pro-death-penalty lawmakers who believe the state may execute an innocent man. | Continue reading


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A Government Official Helped Them Register. Now They've Been Charged With Voter Fraud.

His last night as a prisoner in North Florida, Kelvin Bolton couldn't sleep. Fifty-five years old, with a wispy goatee the same color as the gray flecks in his hair, he was about to get out after serving a 2 1/2-year sentence for theft and battery.(propublica.org) | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

Texas Officials Celebrated End of Abortion Rights After Cutting Back Postpartum Medicaid Extension

Gov. Greg Abbott claimed Texas provides expectant mothers "necessary resources so that they can choose life for their child," but it is now one of a dwindling number of states not to offer Medicaid coverage for a full year after residents give birth.(propublica.org) | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

Google Allowed a Sanctioned Russian Ad Company to Harvest User Data for Months

The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information and details about users’ interests and online activity. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale

After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires. | Continue reading


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Facebook Finally Agrees to Eliminate Tool That Enabled Discriminatory Ads

Six years after ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed advertisers to exclude Black users and others, the company agreed to a settlement with the Justice Department to overhaul its ad algorithm system. | Continue reading


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HFT Billionaire Jeff Yass Is Gaming the Tax System

Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. | Continue reading


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Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT groups — had other plans. | Continue reading


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Ocean Freight Shipping Costs Are Driving Goods Prices Higher

A cadre of ocean carriers are charging exorbitant, potentially illegal, fees on shipping containers stuck because of congestion at ports. Sellers of furniture, coconut water, even kids’ potties say the fees are inflating costs. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

Google Says It Bans Gun Ads. It Makes Money from Them

The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

Trial Diary: A Journalist Sits on a Baltimore Jury

Could 12 strangers agree on justice in Baltimore, a city riddled with killings and distrust of the police, in a shooting case where the victim was an actor on the legendary drama “The Wire”? | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 2 years ago

The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2B on a Plan to Save Salmon

The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart. | Continue reading


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Colorado Legislature Passes HOA Foreclosure Reform Bill

The measure limits homeowners associations’ ability to foreclose on residents who accumulate fines for violating community rules known as covenants. | Continue reading


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