For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, a Memorized Phone Number...
by Ginger Thompson On a hot and steamy Sunday morning, the man smuggling 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid and her mother, Cindy, across the border into the United States told them to be ready...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About Wilbur Ross’ Many Conflicts — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast
by ProPublica There’s a chance you missed it amid the other news, but Forbes had a blockbuster story about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. It turns out, Ross bet against the stock of a company after...
View ArticleHUD Is Failing to Protect Children From Lead Paint Poisoning, Audits Find
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to protect hundreds of thousands of children living in subsidized housing from potential exposure...
View ArticleWho Are You, Readers? And Do You Trust Us?
by Helga Salinas Helga Salinas is ProPublica Illinois’ new engagement reporting fellow. (Courtesy of Maura Salinas) I often think about these questions: Who are you, readers? And do you trust us? Does...
View ArticleVideo: Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a 6-Year-Old Has to Find Her...
by Nadia Sussman and Ginger Thompson Earlier this week, millions of people were captivated by audiotape of an insistent six-year-old girl from El Salvador demanding that workers at a U.S. Customs and...
View ArticleMedicare to Terminate Funding for St. Luke’s Heart Transplant Program in Houston
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle The federal Medicare program informed Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center on Friday that it would cut off funding to its heart...
View ArticleJared Kushner’s Grandmother Bemoaned the “Closed Doors” That Faced Refugees...
by Allan Sloan Way before Jared Kushner became internationally famous by moving into the White House to work for his father-in-law Donald Trump, those of us who live in New Jersey knew the family was...
View ArticleI’ve Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets...
by Hannah Dreier There’s one thing everyone can agree with President Donald Trump on about the street gang MS-13: The group specializes in spectacular violence. Its members attack in groups, in the...
View ArticlePara una niña de seis años atrapada en el laberinto de inmigración, un número...
por Ginger Thompson En una mañana cálida y bochornosa de domingo, el traficante que ayudaba a cruzar ilegalmente la frontera de Estados Unidos a Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid, una niña de seis años, y...
View ArticleVideo: Separada de su madre en la frontera, una niña de seis años tiene que...
por Nadia Sussman y Ginger Thompson La semana pasada, millones de personas fueron cautivadas por la grabación de audio de una insistente niña de seis años exigiendo que funcionarios en un centro de la...
View ArticleBehind the Headline: María Eugenia Vela
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa A lawyer from the small Mexican town of Allende, María Eugenia Vela was at work on the evening of March 18, 2011, waiting for a judge to sign off on reports she had written. Her...
View ArticleBehind the Headline: Demetrius Smith
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Demetrius Smith was wrongly accused of shooting someone — not once, but twice. In 2008, a jury found Smith guilty of murder and sentenced him to life plus 18 years for shooting...
View ArticleProPublica Wins Two Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Journalism
by ProPublica The UCLA Anderson School of Management has recognized two ProPublica investigations as winners in its 2018 Gerald Loeb Awards, one of the most prestigious honors in business journalism....
View ArticleFDA Repays Industry by Rushing Risky Drugs to Market
by Caroline Chen Nuplazid, a drug for hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease, failed two clinical trials. In a third trial, under a revised standard for measuring its effect,...
View ArticleHe estado cubriendo MS-13 durante un año. Estos son los cinco puntos en los...
por Hannah Dreier Read In English. Hay algo con lo que todos pueden estar de acuerdo con Donald Trump respecto a MS-13: la especialidad de la pandilla es la violencia espectacular. Sus miembros atacan...
View ArticlePaying the President
by Derek Kravitz and Derek Willis, ProPublica, and Paul Cronan, Mark Schifferli, and Charlie Smart, Fathom Information Design See the project.
View ArticleWe’ve Found $16.1 Million in Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump Properties
by Derek Kravitz, Alex Mierjeski and Gabriel Sandoval Since Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president in late 2015, at least $16.1 million has poured into Trump Organization-managed and...
View ArticleThree City Sticker Tickets on the Same Car in 90 Minutes?
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ In less than 90 minutes on an October afternoon in 2014, Chicago police officers slapped three $200 tickets on a South Side woman’s 1999 Ford...
View ArticleEstos son los centros con niños inmigrantes que están cerca de ti
por Decca Muldowney, Alex Mierjeski, Claire Perlman, Lilia Chang, Ken Schwencke, Adriana Gallardo and Derek Kravitz
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