Tom Price Intervened on Rule That Would Hurt Drug Profits, the Same Day He...
by Robert Faturechi On the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top...
View ArticleThe White House Wouldn’t Post Trump Staffers’ Financial Disclosures. So We Did.
by Ariana Tobin and Derek Kravitz In a remarkable Friday night news dump, the Trump administration made dozens of White House staffers’ financial disclosure forms available. But they did it with an...
View ArticleTrump’s Changing Trust, Annotated
by Al Shaw and Derek Kravitz Here’s an annotated look at notable changes to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust’s certification document.
View ArticleTom Price’s $150,000-Plus Stock Windfall
by Robert Faturechi Tom Price doesn’t appear to have suffered a financial hit when he fulfilled his pledge to sell off some assets as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services. On...
View ArticleWhen the Designer Shows Up In the Design
by Lena Groeger This story was co-published with Source. Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger I want you to imagine the American Midwest. Don’t think about what it looks like...
View ArticleRestaurant Chain Settles Age Bias Case for $12 Million
by Peter Gosselin Texas Roadhouse has agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit by the government that accused the national steakhouse chain of labeling workers over 40 such things as “Old N’...
View ArticleTrump Lawyer Confirms President Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever...
by Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw Update, April 4, 2017: In an interview with ProPublica, Trump Organization attorney Alan Garten confirmed that President Trump can withdraw profits and underlying assets...
View ArticleChicago Area Disparities in Car Insurance Premiums
by Al Shaw , Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson Some car insurers charge higher premiums in Chicago’s minority neighborhoods than in predominantly white neighborhoods with similar risk of accidents.
View ArticleMinority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas...
by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu, ProPublica ProPublica MACHINE BIAS Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Alyssa Schukar, special to ProPublica Minority...
View ArticleFederal Judge Sees New York State Conspiracy to Thwart Care for Mentally Ill
by Joaquin Sapien A federal judge in Brooklyn has accused state officials of secretly trying to subvert a landmark court order to improve care for thousands of mentally ill residents of New York City....
View ArticleU.S. Immigration Agency Will Lose Millions Because It Can’t Process Visas...
by Marcelo Rochabrun Lost amid the uproar over the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants is a change coming to the legal immigration system that’s expected to be costly for both...
View ArticleThe Car Insurance Industry Attacks Our Story. Here’s Our Response.
Earlier this week, we published an investigation with Consumer Reports in which we found that many minority neighborhoods pay higher car insurance premiums than white areas with the same risk. Our...
View ArticleThe White House Still Hasn’t Released Most Staffers’ Financial Disclosures
by Ariana Tobin and Derek Kravitz Last Friday night, the White House began making staffers’ financial disclosures “available,” which give a glimpse of officials’ often extraordinary personal wealth....
View ArticleHate Crime Law Results in Few Convictions and Lots of Disappointment
by Ryan Katz, Lance Reyna was assaulted in a school bathroom in 2010. Reyna — who is transgender and gay — was a student at Houston Community College when an attacker held a knife to his throat,...
View ArticleOfficial Involved in Bush-Era Purge of Gay Employees Now in Trump Administration
by Justin Elliott It was one of the uglier scandals of the Bush administration: Top officials at an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers launched a campaign against their own employees based...
View ArticleProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold Medal
ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Donate ProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold Medal April 10, 2017 ProPublica and the New York Daily News today won the Pulitzer Prize for...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration Lost Again in Court, This Time on Voter ID
by Jessica Huseman A federal court in Texas has again ruled the state’s 2011 voter identification law intentionally discriminated against minorities. It’s the latest loss in the case for Texas — which...
View ArticleFor-Profit School Chain Camelot Suffers Setback Following Abuse Allegations
by Zoë Kirsch, The Teacher Project, This story was co-published with Slate. The Muscogee County School Board in Columbus, Georgia, dealt another blow to embattled Camelot Education when it voted...
View ArticleTrump’s Wall: How Much Money Does the Government Have For It Now?
by T. Christian Miller During the campaign, President Donald Trump promised to build a wall across the southern border some 1,000 miles long. The number of miles the president currently has money for:...
View ArticleAnother Startling Verdict for Forensic Science
by Ryan Gabrielson Updated (Apr. 14, 2017): Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this week that the Justice Department is closing a federal agency formed four years ago that was designed to...
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