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How Taxpayers Covered a $1,000 Liquor Bill for Trump Staffers (and More) at...
by Derek Kravitz for ProPublica In April 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, estate and club, for a two-day summit. While Xi and his...
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How Companies and Allies of One Powerful Democrat Got $1.1 Billion in Tax Breaks
by Nancy Solomon, WNYC, and Jeff Pillets CAMDEN, N.J. — On a blustery day here in early March, a waterfront amphitheater in one of America’s poorest cities became the unlikely venue for a rare public...
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Six ProPublica Reporters Named Livingston Finalists
by ProPublica Journalists Hannah Dreier, Derek Kravitz, Alex Mierjeski, Claire Perlman, Al Shaw and Finlay Young have been named finalists for the 2019 Livingston Awards for their work on three...
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ProPublica’s Hannah Dreier Wins MOLLY National Journalism Prize and Is a...
by ProPublica The Texas Observer and the Texas Democracy Foundation announced this week that Hannah Dreier is the winner of the 2019 MOLLY National Journalism Prize for her “Trapped in Gangland”...
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TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat — and Gutted It
by Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel Despite signing a deal with the IRS that pledged they would help tens of millions of Americans file taxes for free, tax software giants Intuit, the maker of TurboTax,...
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¿Qué personas tienen mayor probabilidad de ser sometidas a auditoría?...
por Paul Kiel y Jesse Eisinger Read in English. Cuando Natassia Smick, de 28 años, presentó en enero la declaración de impuestos de su familia, ya tenía planes para el reembolso que ella y su esposo...
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New Jersey Task Force Examines Tax Breaks for George Norcross Projects
by Nancy Solomon, WNYC, and Jeff Pillets NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey gubernatorial task force examining possible irregularities in the awarding of state tax breaks zeroed in Thursday on a series of...
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Pediatrician Who Treated Immigrant Children Describes Pattern of Lapses in...
by Michael Grabell Inside a weathered green group home in southern New Jersey, Yosary grew weaker and weaker. She felt tired all the time, and when she got out of bed in the morning, she sometimes...
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You Can’t Tax the Rich Without the IRS
by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel The hot policy in Democratic circles these days is raising taxes on the rich. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a plan to tax “ultramillionaires,” as she calls them. Sen....
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Elizabeth Warren and Other Senators Call for Refunds and Investigations of...
by Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel Several senators led by Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., are calling for the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate five tax software...
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What Will Come of the More Than Me Rape Scandal?
by Finlay Young for ProPublica Monrovia, Liberia — Seven months ago, protesters thronged the streets here, demanding that the American charity More Than Me be held accountable for the rapes of girls...
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Senior IRS Leaders Launch Review of Agency’s Partnership With TurboTax and...
by Justin Elliott Amid calls for investigations from members of Congress, the IRS announced late Friday that it has convened a team of senior leaders to review concerns raised about its Free File...
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Once Defiant, All Four White Supremacists Charged in Charlottesville Violence...
by A.C. Thompson Last year, when federal authorities arrested and charged four members or associates of a white supremacist gang for their roles in the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in...
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What Happened to All the Jobs Trump Promised? An Update
by Daniela Porat, Lena V. Groeger and Isaac Arnsdorf
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The Birth-Tissue Profiteers
by Caroline Chen Their shoulders and backs and knees were giving out. Pills and steroid injections hadn’t eased their pain. They were scared of surgery. So, one afternoon last October, two dozen men...
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Texas House Unanimously Votes to Create Governor’s Task Force on Sexual Assault
by Mark Greenblatt, Newsy The Texas House of Representatives voted 146-0 Tuesday to create the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Task Force inside the governor’s office, bringing money and support at the...
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Kentucky’s $1.5 Billion Information Highway to Nowhere
by Alfred Miller, Louisville Courier-Journal The internet arrived in some parts of eastern Kentucky’s Jackson and Owsley counties on the back of a mule named Old Bub. Nine years ago, Old Bub trudged...
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Una de las pediatras que atendió a niños inmigrantes describe un patrón de...
por Michael Grabell En un hogar grupal deteriorado y pintado de verde, en el sur de Nueva Jersey, Yosary se debilitaba cada vez más. Se sentía cansada todo el tiempo, y, a veces, al levantarse por las...
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What’s Really Going On Inside Mississippi’s Prisons? We Need Your Help to...
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, and Kengo Tsutsumi, ProPublica The Mississippi Department of Corrections has received national praise for its criminal justice reform...
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Years Ago, I Investigated Mississippi’s Prisons. Here’s Why I’m Doing It Again.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting The call came in the fall of 2013. It was an inmate on his cellphone. He was inside a Mississippi prison, and he had something to tell...
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