9-Year-Old Alleges Staff Member at Chicago Psychiatric Hospital Choked and...
by Duaa Eldeib As Illinois’ child welfare agency works to clear out its remaining patients at a Chicago psychiatric hospital beset by allegations of sexual abuse and assault, problems continue to...
View ArticleHUD Tallied Numerous Violations in New York City Public Housing. It Still...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan For months, federal housing officials and prosecutors have alleged that the New York City Housing Authority misled them about conditions, rendering federal...
View ArticleYour Medical Devices Are Not Keeping Your Health Data to Themselves
by Derek Kravitz and Marshall Allen Medical devices are gathering more and more data from their users, whether it’s their heart rates, sleep patterns or the number of steps taken in a day. Insurers...
View ArticleYou Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make The Old Adage Literally True
by Marshall Allen Last March, Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about the machine that helps him breathe at night. Without his knowledge, it was spying on him. From his bedside, the device...
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by Matthew Gerring, ProPublica, and George Bixby, Will Horning, Jeiran Jahani, Rick Mangi, Dmitri Rappaport, and Albert Toledo, Chartbeat
View ArticleTrump Administration Defends Legality of VA Shadow Rulers
by Isaac Arnsdorf The Trump administration is defending the legality of having three Trump associates help steer the Department of Veterans Affairs from the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, asserting...
View ArticlePhotos: An Indonesian Village That’s Fighting for Its Life
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View Article“They Should Have Been Fired on the Spot”: In Elkhart, Indiana, the Talk Is...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica One after another, speakers at a town hall meeting Tuesday in Elkhart, Indiana, criticized the city’s Police Department after...
View ArticleMember of White Supremacist Group Pleads Guilty to Assaults at 2017 Rally
by A.C. Thompson One of the eight members or associates of a violent California white supremacist group arrested on federal riot charges has pleaded guilty to assaulting protesters and others at a...
View ArticleA Hog Waste Agreement Lacked Teeth, and Some North Carolinians Say They’re...
by Talia Buford DUPLIN COUNTY, N.C. — The lagoons were supposed to be gone by now. Nearly 20 years ago, North Carolina faced a reckoning. Hurricane Floyd inundated the state, flooding the open pits...
View ArticleWhat We’re Thankful For: Being Able to Make a Difference in Illinois
by Louise Kiernan Among the many things I’m grateful for this Thanksgiving is being able to work with a group of extraordinarily talented, driven colleagues to make our state a better place to live....
View ArticleTrump Takes a Tougher Line on Pakistan, but the 2008 Mumbai Attack Goes...
by Sebastian Rotella In a sharp break from the caution and inertia of his predecessors, President Donald Trump has slashed U.S. military aid to Pakistan and warned that Washington will take further...
View ArticleComing Soon: “I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother”
by ProPublica A young black man was dead. A young white cop was quickly fired. If that sounds surprising, you don’t know the half of it. A ProPublica investigation starts Nov. 29. You can listen to...
View ArticleAn Anti-Vaxxer’s New Crusade
by David Armstrong On the morning of April 19, 2016, Melanie Lilliston received an urgent call from the Little Dreamers day care center, in Rockville, Maryland. Her 6-month-old daughter, Millie, was...
View ArticleA Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He’s 6.
by Eva Ruth Moravec, special to ProPublica, and Ginger Thompson, ProPublica It was shortly before Thanksgiving in an immigration court in San Antonio, and the third defendant to come before Judge...
View ArticleFamilies Are Still Being Separated at the Border, Months After “Zero...
by Ginger Thompson The Trump administration has quietly resumed separating immigrant families at the border, in some cases using vague or unsubstantiated allegations of wrongdoing or minor violations...
View ArticleElkhart, Indiana, Police Chief Suspended for 30 Days Following Release of...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica For the last two weeks, the police chief in Elkhart, Indiana, has been a no-show at various forums where he might have been...
View ArticleSanitation Salvage, Troubled Garbage Hauler, Surrenders Operating License
by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica Sanitation Salvage, the embattled private trash hauler recently suspended from operations by New York City regulators, has decided to surrender its operating license....
View ArticleHow to Get Your Lawmakers to Listen
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Hello from the otherrr siiiiide… You did it! In this month’s midterm election, you and a whole lot of your fellow voters turned out to the polls to make your voices heard. But...
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