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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
ProPublica digs into a possible factor in rising homicides, beyond the obvious proliferation of guns # | Continue reading
“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
Ryan Busse once worked for a major gun-maker. He now warns about the danger of growing radicalization in the industry. | Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The measure limits homeowners associations’ ability to foreclose on residents who accumulate fines for violating community rules known as covenants. | Continue reading