North Carolina Candidate and Campaign Manager Accused of Voter Intimidation
According to an Electionland tip, Rep. Chris Malone and his campaign manager asked people waiting at polling places if they were preparing to vote twice. Malone said he did not recall asking anyone...
View ArticleMore Than Me Addresses Inaccurate Tax Returns, Loses 2 Board Members, Has...
by Finlay Young for ProPublica In the wake of a ProPublica investigation into More Than Me, the charity scrambled this week to answer questions about inaccuracies in its tax returns. One of its...
View ArticleWhat We Learned From Letting a Mother and Her Son Tell Their Own Story
by Logan Jaffe and Jodi S. Cohen This week, we published a story we wrote less than half of. Most of it was written eight years ago, by a mother whose then 10-year-old son was going through a clinical...
View Article¿Conoces a un estudiante que fue detenido por ICE después de tener problemas...
por Hannah Dreier y Adriana Gallardo Read in English. A medida que aumentan las operaciones de inmigración bajo el presidente Donald Trump, los estudiantes inmigrantes que se meten en problemas en la...
View ArticleDo You Know a Student Who Was Detained by ICE After Getting in Trouble at...
by Hannah Dreier and Adriana Gallardo Leer en español. As immigration enforcement operations ramp up under President Donald Trump, immigrant students who get in trouble in school are at increasing...
View ArticleReports of Voter Intimidation at Polling Places in Texas
by Blake Paterson Tempers are flaring during early voting in Dallas County, Texas, and reports of voter intimidation are on the rise. The county’s nonpartisan election administrator said that the...
View ArticleHow Texans Can Avoid “Vote Flipping”
The Texas secretary of state’s office has warned that some voters who use Hart eSlate voting machines — in place in more than 80 counties — have reported seeing their choices flip to the other party’s...
View ArticleKorean Translators Barred From Texas Polling Place
Volunteer Korean translators hoping to help voters understand their ballots say an election judge in one Harris County precinct told them to stand outside the 100-foot electioneering line. According...
View ArticleImage of Bloody Fetus Sent to Beto O’Rourke Supporters
Some residents in Garland, Texas, say they received a postcard featuring an image of a bloody fetus. They have at least one thing in common: yard signs supporting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto...
View ArticleGroups Mask Partisan Attacks Behind Neutral-Sounding Names in Facebook Ads
by Jeremy B. Merrill, and Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune Some political groups on the left are borrowing a tactic from disinformation campaigns, placing ads on Facebook that pretend to be impartial...
View ArticleTwitter Used to Feel Like a Chore. Now It’s a Powerful Friend (And Fun).
by Melissa Sanchez 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...
View ArticleReporting Recipe: How to Investigate Racial Disparities at Your School
by Annie Waldman Over the past year, ProPublica has been tracking civil rights issues in schools across the country. We’ve reported on Obama-era investigations that have been closed by the Trump...
View ArticleRudy Giuliani’s Mystery Trips to Russia, Armenia and Ukraine — “Trump, Inc.”...
by Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, WNYC Rudy Giuliani has had many identities in his time on the public stage. A crusading federal prosecutor who struck terror in mobsters and Wall Street titans...
View ArticleFederal Inspectors Cite St. Luke’s in Houston for Problems in a Heart Transplant
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle The federal government has cited Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston for not having working defibrillator paddles in the...
View ArticleMissouri Counties Face Uphill Climb to Prepare for High-Stakes Midterm
by Linley Sanders Missouri is rushing to retrain thousands of poll workers just days ahead of the midterm election because of a new court ruling that forced changes to the state’s voter ID law. The...
View ArticleDallas Voters Report Intimidation Outside Polling Locations
Following up on tips received by Electionland, The Dallas Morning News reported on the fierce, often confrontational, and entirely legal electioneering — which some voters described as intimidating —...
View ArticleChicago Psychiatric Hospital Is Under Fire Over Reports Alleging Abuse of...
by Duaa Eldeib A Chicago psychiatric hospital that treats hundreds of children in state care is under federal and state investigation over safety concerns and alleged sexual assaults, and it may be...
View ArticleLast-Minute Tips for Figuring Out Your Ballot and Making Sure You Can Vote
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa While there are often reports of problems that can arise at the polls (maybe you’ve seen news of malfunctioning machines and registration purges in states that have early...
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