Baltimore Judge Tosses Alford Plea, Rebuking Prosecutor
by Megan Rose In a hearing in Baltimore City Circuit Court today, a judge threw out Demetrius Smith’s conviction for a shooting he has long insisted he did not commit and chastised the prosecutor in...
View ArticleTrump’s Chosen: Who Made It Through A Year In The Whirlwind?
by Jessica Huseman, Ian MacDougall and Rob Weychert
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Watchdogging a Nonprofit Watchdog
by Mick Dumke and Logan Jaffe Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Earlier this week, we published a story with the Chicago Sun-Times that identifies a right-leaning public policy organization...
View ArticleRussian Politician Who Reportedly Sent Millions to NRA Has Long History in Spain
by Sebastian Rotella As the Spanish police investigated the presence of a notorious Russian organized crime group on the resort island of Mallorca in 2012, they realized that a key figure described by...
View ArticleReinventing Represent
by Allison McCartney and Derek Willis As of this writing and since late Friday night, Congress has been unable to reach agreement to fund the federal government, resulting in a shutdown. What better...
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Meet Column Setter
by Rob Weychert Grid systems are fundamental to many visual design processes. They govern the spatial relationships in a layout by establishing a set of standard sizes and positions for various...
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Rauner Takes Aim at State Lawmakers Who Appeal Property Taxes
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica, and Ray Long, Chicago Tribune Gov. Bruce Rauner’s executive order seeking to bar state lawmakers from representing clients before a board that hears property tax appeals...
View ArticleManhattan District Attorney Says He’ll No Longer Accept Contributions From...
by Jesse Eisinger After controversy over how he handled two prominent investigations, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said he would no longer take campaign donations from defense attorneys...
View ArticleNewly Defanged, Top Consumer Protection Agency Drops Investigation of...
by Paul Kiel In 2013, ProPublica published an investigation of the subprime lender World Finance. World was charging annual interest rates that could exceed 200 percent, often trapping customers in...
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Trump NLRB Appointee Finds a Way Around Conflict of Interest Rules
by Ian MacDougall A Trump administration appointee to the National Labor Relations Board benefited the interests and clients of his former law firm when he cast the deciding vote to undo rules...
View ArticleProPublica, Audible Present ‘The Making of a Massacre’ Event Remembering...
ProPublica In March of 2011, a Mexican ranching town near the Texas border was besieged by unspeakable violence. Gunmen from the Zetas drug cartel — seeking vengeance against an alleged informant –...
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Chicago Cop Under Investigation Again Over Social Media Posts
by Jodi S. Cohen In September, Chicago Police Officer John Catanzara made headlines after posting on Facebook a picture of himself, in uniform, holding an American flag and a homemade sign that read,...
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The Red Cross Forced Out an Executive Over Sexual Harassment — Then Helped...
by Justin Elliott and Ariana Tobin When Save the Children hired Gerald Anderson in 2013, the global charity believed it was hiring a veteran humanitarian executive with a sterling resume. Anderson had...
View ArticleA Chicago Cop’s Facebook Posts and a City’s Struggle With Racism
by Jodi S. Cohen The Chicago Police Department says complaints against officers for making racial and ethnic slurs and other discriminatory comments have declined in recent years. But as a story we...
View ArticleJudge: Kushner Company Must Reveal Identities of Real Estate Partners
by Alec MacGillis A federal judge in Maryland ruled Friday that Jared Kushner’s family real estate company could not keep secret the identities of its partners in Baltimore-area apartment complexes...
View ArticleCalifornia Murder Suspect Said to Have Trained With Extremist Hate Group
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica, and Jake Hanrahan, special to ProPublica The California man accused of killing a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student...
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New Details Alleged in Scheme to Make Millions Off First Border Wall in Texas
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica The kickback scheme was allegedly hashed out over weeknight drinks at a steakhouse in a border county in south Texas. Amid surf...
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Facebook’s Experiment in Ad Transparency Is Like Playing Hide And Seek
by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Shortly before a Toronto City Council vote in December on whether to tighten regulation of short-term rental companies, an entity called Airbnb Citizen ran an ad on the...
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ProPublica, NPR ‘Lost Mothers’ Series is a Finalist for Goldsmith Prize for...
ProPublica ProPublica and NPR’s series on maternal mortality in the U.S., ‘Lost Mothers’, is one of six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Led by ProPublica reporters Nina...
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