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White House Power Player Jared Kushner Is Keeping Parts of His Real Estate...
by Justin Elliott and Al Shaw Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and the heir to a family real estate empire, has emerged as perhaps Donald Trump’s closest adviser. A near-constant presence by...
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Help ProPublica and USA Today Investigate Alternative Schools
by Heather Vogell and Ariana Tobin ProPublica and USA Today are teaming up to cover a neglected sector of American K–12 education: a vast and growing system of “alternative” schools. These schools are...
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Justice Department Changes Position on Texas’ Discriminatory Voter ID Law
by Jessica Huseman After arguing for nearly six years that Texas’ voter ID law intentionally discriminated against minorities, the U.S. Department of Justice has informed the other plaintiffs in the...
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Trump Said He Made $21 Million in Income From His New York Contracts. He...
by Derek Kravitz and Cezary Podkul When he was running for president last May, Donald Trump released 104 pages of details about his finances, including a claim that he earned nearly $21 million...
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Map: Bomb Threats to Jewish Community Centers and Organizations
by Ken Schwencke and Al Shaw A timeline of bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and other organizations
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5 Trump Cabinet Members Who’ve Made False Statements to Congress
by Eric Umansky and Marcelo Rochabrun As most of the world knows by now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not tell the truth when he was asked during his confirmation hearings about contacts with...
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Despite Federal Law, Some Rural Hospitals Still Turn Away Women in Labor
by Julie Lasson, for ProPublica, This story was co-published with the Louisville Courier-Journal. The young woman’s water broke late one morning in August 2014, as she stood in the bathroom of her...
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How the Trump Administration May Be Skirting Its Own Ethics Rules
by Justin Elliott The Trump administration appears to be either ignoring or exempting top staffers from its own watered-down ethics rules. As we have detailed, President Trump in January issued an...
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Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts
by Heather Vogell Florida’s Department of Education is expanding an inquiry into how schools classify students who leave without graduating, in response to a ProPublica report that the state may have...
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For New York Families in Custody Fights, a ‘Black Hole’ of Oversight
by Joaquin Sapien When Anna Frank lost custody of her 9-year-old son, she blamed her husband and the judge who decided the case in his favor. She also faulted Barbara Burkhard, a psychologist...
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These For-Profit Schools Are ‘Like a Prison’
by Sarah Carr, Francesca Berardi, Zoë Kirsch and Stephen Smiley, The Teacher Project, This story was co-published with Slate. Teenagers at Paramount Academy sometimes came home with mysterious...
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Rules Frozen by Trump Could Melt Away Without a Trace
by Jesse Eisinger Ridding day care centers of fluorescent lightbulbs with toxic PCBs. Requiring a backup engineer on freight trains to avoid crashes. Restricting drones from flying over people....
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Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government
by Justin Elliott , Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw A Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed “ethnic cleansing” in a plot to “liquidate” the white working class. A former reality show...
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Here Are More Than 400 Officials Trump Has Quietly Deployed Across the...
by Al Shaw , Justin Elliott and Derek Kravitz ProPublica has obtained a list of more than 400 people hired by the Trump administration to fill key roles across the federal government.
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Trump Invites Bids to Build Wall, Cites Importance of ‘Aesthetics’
by T. Christian Miller President Donald Trump built his campaign on the promise of a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border. Just a month after his inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security...
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In an Angry and Fearful Nation, an Outbreak of Anti-Semitism
by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke In late November, Marna Street, a violist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was walking to her car after a rehearsal. Street was shocked by what she...
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There’s No Guarantee Trump’s Tax Returns Would Reveal Russia Ties
by Allan Sloan, ProPublica, This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Every week seems to bring yet another revelation about possible relationships between Russia and people close to...
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About $765 Billion Is Wasted Each Year on Health Care. Can You Help Us Find It?
by Marshall Allen Experts say the United States might be squandering a quarter of the money spent on health care. That's an estimated $765 billion a year wasted on things like administrative red tape,...
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What Hospitals Waste
by Marshall Allen ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate What Hospitals Waste The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. We’re tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all...
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Senators to White House: How Will Kushner Avoid Overlap Between Business...
by Justin Elliott Two senators and a congressman are pressing the White House to disclose exactly how Jared Kushner will comply with conflict of interest laws. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Tom...
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