Natural Gas Industry Again Beats a Tiny West Virginia County That Wanted to...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail A West Virginia county, whose elected leaders have vocally resisted natural gas industry operations, has again been told by a federal judge that it must...
View ArticleSenators Seek Answers From HUD About Public Housing Crisis in East St. Louis
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan Illinois’ Democratic senators are asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to detail what steps the agency is taking to address problems...
View ArticleMarines Move to Tackle Racial Extremists in the Corps
by Rahima Nasa The United States Marine Corps has taken steps to combat racial extremists in its ranks, issuing an updated order emphasizing that participation in white supremacist and other groups is...
View ArticleNew Mexico Senators Speak Out Over Order They Say Would Hamper Nuclear Safety...
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican New Mexico’s senators are asking Congress to block a Department of Energy order that would limit a federal board’s access to information about nuclear facilities...
View ArticleWhy Trump Should Have Read “Ask ProPublica Illinois” Before He Tweeted
by ProPublica We don’t think President Donald Trump reads ProPublica Illinois. But, well, maybe he should. On Wednesday, the president issued a pair of tweets warning about the media’s use of...
View ArticleFrom Ministry to Muckraking: The Biblical Basis for Investigative Reporting
by Marshall Allen More than a dozen years ago I was a finalist for a reporting job at a small newspaper. All I needed to do was survive an interview with the top editor. The other editors warned me,...
View ArticleProminent Houston Judge Quits St. Luke’s Board After Heart Transplant...
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica A prominent federal judge quietly resigned from the board of directors at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center this year after the...
View ArticleThe Imam’s Widow
by Rahima Nasa Every night, Alauddin Akonjee set the alarm clock in the bedroom of his home in Ozone Park, Queens, fearful he wouldn’t wake in time for morning prayer. And each morning, he and his...
View ArticleWhy Am I Seeing This? Interesting Facebook Ads From Our Political Ad Collector
by Jeremy B. Merrill These ads are collected from participants in our Political Ad Collector project. If you want to help us by submitting the ads you see to our collection, join the project. It's...
View ArticleAt Hearing for Bronx Trash Hauler, More Questions About Safety and Oversight
by Kiera Feldman Given the exhausting nature of commercial driving, federal authorities have basic safety protocols to protect workers and the public. The law limits drivers’ hours and requires...
View ArticleHow the Army Corps’ Hesitation Nearly Destroyed a City
by Al Shaw and Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting See the map.
View ArticleThere Was a Plan to Save This City From Flooding. But When the Rains Came, So...
by Lisa Song, ProPublica, and Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting In the last days of April 2011, the mayor of Cairo, Illinois, told residents to get out. A spring...
View ArticleAs Months Pass in Chicago Shelters, Immigrant Children Contemplate Escape,...
by Melissa Sanchez, Duaa Eldeib and Jodi S. Cohen One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as he waited to be released from a Chicago shelter for...
View ArticleDid Three Immigrant Teens Run Away From a Chicago Shelter Last Month?
by Melissa Sanchez, Jodi S. Cohen and Duaa Eldeib Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Discover what makes Illinois tick from our team of investigative journalists covering the state. Delivered...
View Article“Bombs in Our Backyard” Wins SEJ’s Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding...
by ProPublica The Society of Environmental Journalists announced today that the ProPublica project “Bombs in Our Backyard” is the inaugural winner of its Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding...
View ArticleMientras pasan los meses en albergues de Chicago, menores migrantes...
por Melissa Sanchez, Duaa Eldeib y Jodi S. Cohen Un guatemalteco de 16 años dijo que quería “quitarme la vida” mientras esperaba ser liberado de un albergue para jóvenes inmigrantes de Chicago. Estuvo...
View ArticleHeart Surgery “Legend” a Factor in Transplant Deaths, a St. Luke’s Colleague...
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica For months, officials at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center have declined to specify the factors behind a rash of patient deaths...
View ArticleTop Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major...
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times One of the world’s top breast cancer doctors failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments from drug and health care...
View ArticleSloan Kettering Cancer Center Orders Staff to “Do a Better Job” of Disclosing...
by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica The chief executive of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center sent an email to all staff members on Sunday saying that the...
View ArticleHere’s What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Separated From Their...
by Jodi S. Cohen, Melissa Sanchez and Duaa Eldeib They were as young as 10 months, as old as almost 18. About one-third of the children who ended up in Chicago came from Guatemala. Others had fled...
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