After Two-Week Review, St. Luke’s in Houston Reopens Its Heart Transplant...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center said Friday it has reopened its storied heart transplant program, two weeks after suspending it...
View ArticleWest Virginia Paid for a CEO to Go on a Trade Delegation to China. Turns Out,...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail Last November, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping looked on in Beijing as officials from the state of West Virginia and a Chinese...
View ArticleWhy Are Millions Paying Online Tax Preparation Fees When They Don’t Need To?
by Tik Root for ProPublica As internet use took off at the turn of the millennium, the Office of Management and Budget asked the Internal Revenue Service to create no-cost electronic tax-filing...
View ArticleBehind the Headline: Noemi Martinez
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Noemi Martinez of Jacksonville, Fla., was in a desperate hurry last July, as she ran to catch the bus from one job interview to the next. Along the way, she veered off the...
View ArticleBehind the Headline: Christopher Copolillo
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Christopher Copolillo was a grad student at the University of Southern California in 2017, when the Trump administration announced plans to cut $3.9 billion from the Pell Grant...
View ArticleBehind the Headline: Marie McCausland
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Four days after Marie McCausland gave birth to her first child, the hospital sent her and her husband home with their new baby boy. Hours later, she felt awful: severe chest...
View ArticleListen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
by Ginger Thompson Leer en Español. The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for...
View ArticleEscucha a los niños que acaban de ser separados de sus padres en la frontera
par Ginger Thompson Read in English. El desesperado llanto de diez niños centroamericanos, separados de sus padres un día de la semana pasada por las autoridades de inmigración en la frontera, es una...
View ArticleDHS Chief is Confronted With ProPublica Tape of Wailing Children Separated...
by Stephen Engelberg Minutes after ProPublica posted a recording of crying children begging for their parents, Kirstjen Nielsen stepped up to the podium in the White House briefing room to answer...
View ArticleWhen Do Reporters Collaborate, and When Do They Compete?
by David Eads At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever since,...
View ArticleHow the Case for Voter Fraud Was Tested — and Utterly Failed
by Jessica Huseman In the end, the decision seemed inevitable. After a seven-day trial in Kansas City federal court in March, in which Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach needed to be tutored on...
View ArticleVideo: The Voices Missing From the Immigration Debate
by ProPublica As the Trump administration continues to defend its “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which, since April, has separated more than 2,300 children from their parents at the border,...
View ArticleBehind the Criminal Immigration Law: Eugenics and White Supremacy
by Ian MacDougall Amid a bipartisan backlash, President Trump has tried repeatedly to shift blame to Democrats for his own administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, which has resulted in...
View ArticleU.S. Marine to Be Imprisoned Over Involvement With Hate Groups
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica Vasillios Pistolis, a United States Marine Corps lance corporal who ProPublica and Frontline identified as a neo-Nazi and assailant...
View ArticleSuppressed Study: The EPA Underestimated Dangers of Widespread Chemicals
by Abrahm Lustgarten, Lisa Song and Talia Buford A major environmental health study that had been suppressed by the Trump administration because of the “public relations nightmare” it might cause the...
View ArticleFederal Judge to Consider Independent Monitor for Illinois Child Welfare Agency
by Duaa Eldeib The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois asked a federal judge on Wednesday to take the rare step of appointing a “special master” to resolve disputes and data requests related to...
View ArticleHave You Experienced or Witnessed Civil Rights Violations at a School? Share...
by Adriana Gallardo and Annie Waldman Every year, parents and families file thousands of complaints to the U.S. Department of Education alleging civil rights violations at a school or college, ranging...
View ArticleHas Your School Been Investigated for Civil Rights Violations?
by Lena Groeger and Annie Waldman Check if your school has been investigated.
View ArticleDeVos Has Scuttled More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Inherited From Obama
by Annie Waldman Whether schoolchildren in DeSoto County, Mississippi, are paddled varies by their race. Black students are almost two and a half times more likely than whites to endure the corporal...
View ArticleProPublica Wins Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation
by ProPublica The Radio Television Digital News Association announced today that ProPublica won an Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in innovation for its “Lost Mothers” database, a collaboration...
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