He Tried to Set Limits on His State’s School Vouchers. Billionaires Helped...
PACs targeted former West Virginia Delegate Vernon Criss following his proposal to rein in state spending on school vouchers. Will Price/West Virginia Legislature On a cold February morning at West...
View ArticleKen Paxton’s Anti-Abortion Influence Already Extended Beyond Texas. He Could...
Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Source images: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, skaman306/Getty Images, Mike Klein/Getty Images. Early in his tenure as Texas attorney general, Ken...
View ArticleThis Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials...
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View Article“Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s...
Since September 2025, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia to demand their unredacted voter rolls. The rolls contain confidential...
View ArticleTrump Says the Border Is Secure. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Keeps Declaring an...
Emily Scherer for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. Source images: The Texas Tribune and documents obtained by ProPublica. Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott repeated a claim he’s made for the past...
View ArticleFrustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How...
Margaret Flatley for ProPublica Some 86 years ago, Missouri voters enshrined a system for selecting top judges that would remove political influence from the courts. And almost immediately, it came...
View ArticleThese Women Were Trying to Escape Domestic Abuse. ICE Detained Them Instead.
They were victims, not abusers. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys, visitors and anyone else who would listen. It didn’t matter. The women were all taken to a sprawling immigration...
View ArticleNew Mexico and El Paso Spent Millions on Climate Plans. Three New Data...
Meta is building a massive data center on the northeast edge of El Paso, Texas, on the New Mexico border. Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Last December, New Mexico officials celebrated...
View ArticleScammers Are Stealing Millions From Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Could Fix...
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View ArticleHe Waited Nine Years in Prison for His Lawyer to File a Single Brief. In This...
Mark Harris for ProPublica. Source images: Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer, courtesy of Patrick Hickson, court records. In 2020, seven years after he was appointed to represent a client...
View ArticleAs Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance,...
A border patrol vehicle drives past the Tadai Me:i prayer camp on the Tohono O’odham nation on Sept. 5. Cam Mackey At 4:59 a.m. on Aug. 25, Verlon Jose, the chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation in...
View ArticleWatch: Inside Our $22K Sports Betting Experiment
Illustration by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons/ProPublica. Source images by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images. Earlier this year, we heard that reporter Jake Pearson planned to ask our editors at ProPublica...
View ArticleNew York Plans Stronger Sports Betting Regulation to Curb Gambling Addiction
DraftKings sent extensive promotional offers to ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson while he was testing the company’s safety guardrails for problem gamblers. Recreation of notifications by Chris...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a...
Photo illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Danny Johnston/AP, Douglas Rissing via iStock, Air Force Maj. David Brown and Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Isaac Garza. Among a cadre of...
View ArticleKen Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His...
Illustration by Joel Kimmel for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. Reference image: ZUMA Press Wire/Reuters Connect. In the summer of 2023, after he was impeached on charges of abusing his office for...
View ArticleAn Arizona County’s “Housing Hub” Is a Dead End for Many Homeless Families
A 12-year-old child opens the curtains of a hotel room in Tempe, Arizona, where she, her mother and four siblings were staying earlier this year while experiencing homelessness. The room was funded in...
View ArticleWe’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your...
Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica Last year, many of America’s largest health insurers vowed to reduce their use of prior authorization — the extra layer of approval insurers require before...
View ArticleU.S. Lawmakers Launch Sexual Abuse Probe of Youth Sports Giant AAU
Left image: A scene from an Amateur Athletic Union-affiliated volleyball game in 2026. Right image: Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., left, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and ranking...
View ArticleClub Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander...
Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: FAA report obtained by ProPublica, Eric Gay/AP. When SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket exploded over the Caribbean last year, the internet lit...
View ArticleAmerican Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Bottles of raw milk for sale Sarahbeth Maney for ProPublica The nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of...
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