California to Investigate Racial Discrimination in Auto Insurance Premiums
by Julia Angwin This story was co-published with Consumer Reports. The California Department of Insurance has launched an investigation into whether eight auto insurers in the state discriminate...
View ArticleCalifornia Hate Crime Against Sikh Man Yields Prison Terms for Assailants
by A.C. Thompson Wearing a slightly baggy suit, a maroon turban wrapped around his head, Maan Singh Khalsa looked across the courtroom at Judge Patricia Scanlon and wiggled his right hand. The damage...
View ArticleOver 50 and Looking for a Job? We Want to Hear From You
by Peter Gosselin How do Americans live the last third of their lives? What we hear, especially when it comes to working, is that this usually is a time of stability, increased flexibility and...
View ArticleThe Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’
by Alec MacGillis This story was co-published with The New York Times Magazine. The Townhouse on High Seas Court in the Cove Village development, in the Baltimore suburb of Essex, was not exactly the...
View ArticleTrump’s Immigration Pick Attacked Obama Programs in Ghost-Written Senate Letters
by Marcelo Rochabrun Lee Francis Cissna, President Trump’s nominee to head the federal agency that handles applications for visas, refugee status and citizenship, has put little on the public record...
View ArticleTrump Administration Says It Isn’t Anti-Science As It Seeks to Slash EPA...
by Lisa Song When the city of Toledo temporarily lost access to clean drinking water several years ago after a bloom of toxic algae, the Environmental Protection Agency sent scientists from its Office...
View ArticleIn a Lonely Corner of Coney Island, a Fight Over Care for the Vulnerable
by Joaquin Sapien The knifing happened the night of May 2, just inside the “smoking room” at Oceanview Manor, home to dozens of mentally ill adults in Coney Island, Brooklyn. A dispute between two...
View ArticleThree Strategies to Defend GOP Health Bill: Euphemisms, False Statements and...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with Stat. Earlier this month, a day after the House of Representatives passed a bill to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act,...
View ArticleProsecutors Race to Keep Notorious Angel-of-Death Behind Bars
Peter Elkind, special to ProPublica, This story was co-published with Texas Monthly. Updated (May. 25, 2017): Immediately after indicting Genene Jones today for murder, the grand jury set a bond of $1...
View ArticleVegas Judge Had Long History of Prosecutorial Misconduct
by Megan Rose ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Vegas Judge Had Long History of Prosecutorial Misconduct The behavior of Bill Kephart, who led the murder prosecution of Fred...
View ArticleKafka in Vegas
by Megan Rose This story was co-published with Vanity Fair. ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Chris Buzelli, special to ProPublica Kafka in Vegas Fred Steese served more...
View ArticleAnnouncing ProPublica’s 12 Diversity Scholarship Recipients
by Lena Groeger We’re excited to announce the 12 recipients of the 2017 ProPublica Diversity Scholarship. Each of these talented journalists will receive a $500 scholarship to attend one of the annual...
View ArticleDoctor’s Records in U.S. Doping Investigation Don’t Match Patients’ Copies
by David Epstein for ProPublica, and Mark Daly, BBC This story was co-published with the BBC. Two years ago, two men played key roles in an investigation by ProPublica and the BBC into possible...
View ArticleA Few Things Got Left Out of The Daily Caller’s Report on Confederate...
by A.C. Thompson On May 14, The Daily Caller, a popular conservative website, published a news story about recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Led by prominent white supremacists and...
View ArticleA Drug Quintupled in Price. Now, Drug Industry Players Are Feuding Over the...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times, This article is a collaboration between ProPublica and The New York Times. Updated (May. 31, 2017): This story has been been...
View ArticleHave You Had Difficulty Paying For or Accessing Prescription Drugs? We Want...
by Charles Ornstein It’s no secret that drug prices have been rising rapidly and have placed a heavy burden on American families, particularly those with health plans that force them to pay thousands...
View ArticleTom Price Bought Drug Stocks. Then He Pushed Pharma’s Agenda in Australia.
by Robert Faturechi In the spring before the 2016 presidential election, the Obama administration’s 12-nation trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, was still alive....
View ArticleMeet the ProPublica Data Institute Class of 2017
by Lena Groeger and Sisi Wei We’re thrilled to announce the 12 outstanding journalists who will be joining us this year.
View ArticleNevada Passes Modest Measures to Curb Prosecutorial Misconduct
by Megan Rose Two Nevada laws designed to counter bad behavior by state prosecutors, or at least give some defendants the ability to undo troubling plea agreements, passed last week, although one was...
View ArticleHe Was About To Pick Up His Newborn Son After Surgery When He Was Arrested By...
by Marcelo Rochabrun Early last Monday morning, Oscar Millan’s longtime partner called him from a Boston hospital, weepy with relief. Their son, Oscar Matias, had been born two weeks earlier with a...
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