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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. The agency was examining interactions between...
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We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway.
ProPublica reporters Jennifer Smith Richards, center, and Jodi S. Cohen and Arkansas Times reporter Milo Strain research founding a private school in Little Rock. Brian Chilson/Arkansas Times We have...
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It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can...
Ever imagine yourself as a private school operator? It’s not such a wild idea. Hundreds of new private schools have popped up all over the country in recent years, responding to a surge of public...
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Her Agency Distributes Billions for Housing Projects. Her Husband’s Company...
Andrea Bell, director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, at a groundbreaking ceremony in 2025 Oregon Housing and Community Services As head of Oregon’s housing finance agency, Andrea Bell...
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School...
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune A little-known effort to bring an artificial intelligence tool into Texas public schools began about a year ago, with the...
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
Nearly identical headstones mark the burial of brothers from Owyhee County, Idaho, who died in 2022, 2024 and 2025. Each died before his first birthday. Their graves are in the same cemetery as Emma...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish...
Courtesy of Emily Marris Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence...
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“A Massive Power Grab”: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps...
Amy Miller, a lawyer for the advocacy group Disability Rights Nebraska, puts away voter registration material at the organization’s office in Lincoln. Allison Hess for ProPublica Without Amy Miller,...
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
A poster showing a sample mail-in ballot is displayed as U.S. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice on Sept. 22 in Washington,...
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Arizona Lawmaker Proposes More Federal Support for English Fluency Services
Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks at a press conference with other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in Washington, D.C. last year. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images An Arizona...
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Two Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm’s Way
K.K. Bautista, left, and her adoptive mother hold their respective children outside a camper at the Hyder Mountain Road mobile home park, where homes previously washed away. Bautista moved there...
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Illustration by Simone Noronha for ProPublica It was late May, the French Open was on and DraftKings was pushing me into the action. A promotion pinged on my phone. “BET & GET,” it boomed,...
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What Does Your Data Reveal About Sports Betting Apps? Help ProPublica Find Out.
Illustration by Simone Noronha for ProPublica If you’re one of millions of Americans who have placed an online bet on a sporting event, you know how quickly you can go from celebrating your wins to...
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Colorado Marijuana Company Voluntarily Recalls Dozens of Contaminated...
Samples of diluted cannabis edibles and flowers sit in vials at Kaycha Labs, a cannabis testing facility in Denver that looks for contaminants in marijuana products. Stephen Swofford, The Denver...
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Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Mountain View Academy in Dandridge, Tennessee Stacy Kranitz for ProPublica Across the country, states have been shuttering their youth prisons as juvenile crime has plummeted and research shows the...
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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War
The original Star-Spangled Banner, seen in 1969 at what was then the National Museum of History and Technology, now called the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution...
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Susan Collins Dismissed Our Reporting as Old News. Some of Her Claims Aren’t...
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, at the U.S. Capitol in August Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images As the scandal over Susan Collins’ relationship with Hawaii defense contractor Navatek became...
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another...
The Trump administration announced it would stop publishing complaint narratives submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Every year, millions of complaints...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in...
Beatrice Caciotti for ProPublica. Source images: U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ official Facebook page. In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at...
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Watch: The New Supreme Court
Source image: Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto via AP The Supreme Court continues to make consequential rulings in the shadows. I analyzed tens of thousands of case files from the court’s online archives,...
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