ProPublica Honored With the First Amendment Coalition’s Free Speech & Open...
by ProPublica The First Amendment Coalition awarded ProPublica its Free Speech & Open Government Award for “Trump Town,” a series of articles and a searchable database of 2,724 of President Donald...
View Article“I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother”
by Joe Sexton PART I Nine Minutes in Weirton The dispatcher for the Weirton Police Department took the 911 call at 2:51 a.m. on May 6, 2016. “Please send somebody to 119 Marie Ave., Weirton, West...
View ArticleDeVos’ Inspector General to Audit Dismissals of Civil Rights Complaints
by Annie Waldman The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Education has announced that it is scrutinizing how the department handles civil rights complaints, potentially fueling a...
View ArticleChicago Throws Out 23,000 Duplicate Tickets Issued Since 1992 to Motorists...
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ The city of Chicago said Thursday it has dismissed some 23,000 outstanding duplicate vehicle sticker tickets and will refund motorists who have...
View ArticleThe Los Alamos Lab Worker Who Started a Year Too Late for Benefits
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican For several months in the early 2000s, Gilberto Ulibarri attached a respirator to his face each day to fix pipes in the sewers of Los Alamos National Laboratory....
View ArticleIn an 18-Year-Old Program to Help Ill Nuclear Workers, a Petition Has...
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican Ten years ago, a Los Alamos National Laboratory security guard named Andrew Evaskovich submitted a petition seeking compensation for fellow nuclear lab workers...
View ArticleIll Nuclear Workers’ Benefits Petitions Have to Be Reviewed Within 6 Months....
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican Ten years ago, a security guard at Los Alamos National Laboratory submitted a petition to the federal government seeking compensation and benefits for his fellow...
View ArticleHere’s What We’ve Been Reading This Week
by Helga Salinas There’s been a lot of good journalism this week. Here are just a few of the stories we’ve liked and think you might find interesting, too. How Chicago-area municipalities are paying...
View ArticleAs Houston Methodist’s Lung Program Grew, So Did Its Rate of Failed Transplants
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle Godfrey “G.W.” Biscamp could barely breathe. After months of struggling with an inflammatory lung disease, his doctor told him he was in need of a transplant, and...
View ArticleAs St. Luke’s Heart Program Faltered, Deaths After Liver and Lung Transplants...
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica During the summer of 2017, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center posted a banner on its website, celebrating its liver and lung...
View ArticleUn encausado se presenta solo al tribunal de inmigración. Tiene 6 años de edad.
por Eva Ruth Moravec, en reporte especial para ProPublica, junto con Ginger Thompson, ProPublica Fue poco antes al Día de Acción de Gracias en uno de los tribunales de inmigración de San Antonio,...
View ArticleTodavía hay familias que están siendo separadas en la frontera, meses después...
por Ginger Thompson Read in English. La administración de Trump ha vuelto a separar a familias en la frontera, esta vez en forma sigilosa y justificando el acto con alegatos imprecisos y no...
View ArticleA Chicago Psychiatric Hospital Will Lose Federal Funding Over Safety and...
by Duaa Eldeib Federal authorities announced Friday they were pulling funding from a Chicago psychiatric hospital under investigation following numerous allegations of sexual abuse, assault and...
View ArticleWith Trump’s Justice Department Retreating, Who Will Now Police the Police?
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica This article was produced in partnership with the South Bend Tribune, a member of ProPublica s Local Reporting Network. It was...
View ArticleVA Shadow Rulers Had Sway Over Contracting and Budgeting
by Isaac Arnsdorf Newly released emails about the three Trump associates who secretly steered the Department of Veterans Affairs show how deeply the trio was involved in some of the agency’s most...
View ArticleElkhart City Council Members Support Investigation of Police Department
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune At least three members of Elkhart, Indiana’s city council say they would support paying for an independent review of the city’s police force if the U.S....
View ArticleTrump Jr. Invested in a Hydroponic Lettuce Company Whose Chair Was Seeking...
by Jake Pearson and Peter Elkind Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, took a stake last year in a startup whose co-chairman is a major Trump campaign fundraiser who has sought financial...
View ArticleHow We Found Donald Trump Jr.’s Secret Investment in a Fundraiser’s Business
by Jake Pearson and Derek Kravitz Donald Trump Jr. and Gentry Beach, a Dallas-based investor and college friend of Trump Jr., have done business together before, despite past claims by both men that...
View ArticleHe is West Virginia’s Speaker of the House — and a Lawyer for Natural Gas...
by Ken Ward Jr. and Kate Mishkin, The Charleston Gazette-Mail Toward the end of this year’s legislative session, a little-noticed bill was moving through the West Virginia House of Delegates to limit...
View ArticleLiving Apart, Coming Undone
by Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, and Tom Jennings for Frontline The stench from Abraham Clemente’s apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn, this summer was overwhelming. Maggot-infested scrambled eggs were...
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