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Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy
by T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi It’s the dead of night, and the USS Fitzgerald is on a secret mission to the South China Sea. The sailors on the $1.8 billion destroyer are...
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ProPublica and ProPublica Local Reporting Network Projects Are Finalists for...
by ProPublica Projects by ProPublica and the South Bend Tribune, a participating newsroom in the ProPublica Local Reporting Network, are two of seven finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for...
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Detective in Elkhart, Indiana, Wrongful Conviction Case Dies in Apparent Suicide
by South Bend Tribune The former Elkhart police detective who was central in an investigation that led to the wrongful convictions of Keith Cooper and another man died this week in an apparent...
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The Cook County Sheriff’s Office Says Its Gang Database Is on Lockdown, but...
by Mick Dumke In January, aides to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart began telling other county officials that their office was no longer using its gang database. Many welcomed the news. After all, the...
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Years of Warnings, Then Death and Disaster
by Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller When Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin was elevated to lead the vaunted 7th Fleet in 2015, he expected it to be the pinnacle of his nearly four-decade...
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How We Investigated the Navy’s Twin Disasters in the Pacific
by T. Christian Miller, Robert Faturechi and Megan Rose We set out to reconstruct the accidents in which the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain collided with cargo vessels within a few months...
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ProPublica Nominated for 4 National Magazine Awards
by ProPublica The American Society of Magazine Editors nominated ProPublica for four of its 2019 National Magazine Awards (also known as the Ellies), which honor excellence in print and digital media....
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What ProPublica Is Covering This Year
by Jess Ramirez We cover many things at ProPublica, from the border, to health, to police abuse. But all of our work is ultimately about one thing: holding the powerful to account. We do it through...
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New Evidence Emerges of Possible Wrongdoing by Trump Inaugural Committee
by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC Federal prosecutors in New York are circling Donald Trump’s inaugural committee as part of a wide-ranging investigation into possible money...
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Domineque Ray Is Executed in Alabama After Supreme Court Bid Fails
by Lauren Gill for ProPublica At 9:44 Thursday night, the curtain opened on the execution chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. Domineque Ray lay strapped to a gurney,...
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In Navy Disasters, Neglect, Mistakes, and 17 Lost Sailors
by Nate Schweber and T. Christian Miller
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Chicago Public Schools Monitored Social Media for Signs of Violence, Gang...
by Aaron Leibowitz for ProPublica Illinois, and Sarah Karp, WBEZ Chicago In January 2017, after a social media analyst for the Chicago Public Schools reviewed the Facebook profile of a Roosevelt High...
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What Do You Know About County Jails in California? Talk to Us.
by Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica, Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica The Sacramento Bee and ProPublica are investigating conditions in California’s county jails. We need...
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Appeals Court Rules Key Anti-Age Discrimination Protections Don’t Apply to...
by Peter Gosselin In a decision last month, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has sharply limited a federal law that protects workers who are 40 and older from age bias by ruling that...
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ProPublica Wins 22 Awards for Excellence in News Design
by ProPublica The Society for News Design honored ProPublica with 22 Awards of Excellence in this year’s Best of Digital Design competition. ProPublica received three silver medals, which recognize...
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Senate Committee Grills Navy Official Over 2017 Collisions, Seeking Data to...
by Robert Faturechi and T. Christian Miller A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday called on Navy officials to provide hard data showing they have improved conditions on their...
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HUD’s System for Processing Public Records Requests Died During the Shutdown
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan The partial federal shutdown ended weeks ago, but one lingering effect turns out to be citizens’ ability to get public records from a government agency. The...
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ProPublica Named a Finalist for Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics
by ProPublica The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that “A Betrayal” by ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier is one of five finalists for the Anthony Shadid...
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Large Natural Gas Producer to Pay West Virginia Plaintiffs $53.5 Million to...
by Kate Mishkin and Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail The second-largest natural gas producer in West Virginia will pay $53.5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the company was cheating...
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The Lobbying Swamp Is Flourishing in Trump’s Washington
by Derek Kravitz It’s been more than two years since President Donald Trump, who rallied campaign supporters with calls to “drain the swamp” of lobbyists and their ilk, took office. But despite that...
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