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Scenes From a Black Site
by Daniel DeFraia, special to ProPublica Recently declassified CIA documents provide the first detailed look at the interrogation in Thailand of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the al-Qaida prisoner whose...
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A Prisoner in Gina Haspel’s Black Site
by Tim Golden and Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, and Daniel DeFraia, special to ProPublica He was a small man, one interrogator recalled, and so thin that he would slip in his restraints when the...
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Talk to Us About Los Alamos National Laboratory — and Other National Labs...
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican, and Beena Raghavendran ProPublica and The Santa Fe New Mexican are investigating health and safety conditions at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the...
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Trump Vowed to Punish Companies That Moved Jobs Overseas. Is Congress...
by Michael Grabell Two weeks before the presidential election, Donald Trump flew into a faded textile town in North Carolina and riled up the crowd over one of his campaign’s signature promises:...
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Two Leading Bidders for Lucrative Los Alamos Lab Contract Have Checkered...
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican In the coming weeks, the U.S. Department of Energy will select a new team to run Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and one of...
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Connecticut Set to End “Dual Arrests” in Domestic Violence Cases
by Sarah Smith, special to ProPublica The Connecticut Legislature has sent a bill to the governor’s desk that seeks to end having victims of domestic violence arrested along with their abusers because...
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Haspel, Spies and Videotapes
by Tim Golden In November 2005, the CIA’s chief of undercover operations, Jose Rodriguez, turned to his closest aide for help in a crisis. Congress was threatening an investigation into the agency’s...
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Chicago Begins To Rethink How Bankruptcy Lawyers Get Paid
by Melissa Sanchez Twice in the past three years, Kimberly Williams-Hayes has filed for bankruptcy. The first time, she made about $5,400 in total payments toward her debt before her case was...
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ProPublica, WMFE and Orlando Public Library to Host Forum on PTSD in First...
by ProPublica The Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, laid bare an issue first responders have been dealing with for decades: how responding to horrific incidents can lead to post-traumatic...
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Russian Oligarch-Linked Firm That Paid Michael Cohen Was Also Represented by...
by Justin Elliott The news on Tuesday that the same shell company that Michael Cohen, a longtime personal lawyer for Donald Trump, had used to pay $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels had also...
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Covering the Midterms With Electionland 2018
by Scott Klein and Jessica Huseman In the run-up to the 2016 election, ProPublica organized a project called Electionland to cover voting, nationally and in real time. Along with a coalition of news...
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Congress Aims to Force Pentagon Reform on Open Burning of Munitions
by Abrahm Lustgarten The next round of Department of Defense funding will come with an important requirement: Congress wants the Pentagon’s outmoded and highly toxic practice of burning old munitions...
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Where Did Trump’s Cash Come From? — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast Extra
by Eric Umansky Last week, the Washington Post had an intriguing story: In the nine years before now-President Donald Trump announced his candidacy, his company paid $400 million in cash to buy a...
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Takeaways From Our Urbana-Champaign Free Street Theater Journalism Workshop
by Natalie Escobar Last weekend, we took our partnership with Free Street Theater and Illinois Humanities on the road, hosting theater-journalism workshops in Urbana-Champaign and Carbondale. As we...
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Group to Send Lawyers to Help Incarcerated Teens
by Duaa Eldeib Young men in custody at a youth correctional facility in southern Illinois may soon have private attorneys to represent them in court after officials said they were concerned about...
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New Commissioner Says FTC Should Get Tough on Companies Like Facebook and Google
by Jesse Eisinger Declaring that “the credibility of law enforcement and regulatory agencies has been undermined by the real or perceived lax treatment of repeat offenders,” newly installed Democratic...
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ProPublica Illinois Wins Four Awards from Chicago Headline Club
by ProPublica ProPublica Illinois took home four Peter Lisagor Awards at the Chicago Headline Club’s annual awards dinner on May 11. The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune project “The Tax...
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At a Killer’s Sentencing, Native Americans Talk of Both Healing and Enduring...
by Rahima Nasa The May 11 sentencing of James Walker proceeded as planned inside Grays Harbor, Washington, Superior Court: The 32-year-old pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the second degree in the...
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Police Are Mislabeling Anti-LGBTQ and Other Crimes as Anti-Heterosexual
by Rachel Glickhouse and Rahima Nasa Rob heard a loud knock at his door late one night in August 2014. His landlord had been calling him about maintenance issues in his Columbus, Ohio, apartment, but...
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