Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social

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In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024)

Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable. (Published Aug. 2024)

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. (Published Oct. 2024)

“People were dying in our backyard,” said Pastor Daniel Simmons of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, whose members helped establish the Samaritan Clinic in 2007. “It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”

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They called 911 for help. Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars. (Published 2022)

Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found. More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022. (Published Jan. 2024)

Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.

A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book. It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life. (Published Sept. 2022)

The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers. Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers. With @highcountrynews.org

Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.” Published April with @texastribune.org

The floods kept coming. He needed to grow a crop that would thrive in water — or to quit. Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social, Saluki Local Reporting Lab

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@erinmayequade.bsky.social calls for stronger laws after our investigation into child abuse in OALC: “Honestly, we should have looked at it before... These victim survivors coming forward and sharing their stories — it would just be wrong to not respond to that.” www.propublica.org/article/minn...

One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. (Published Feb.)

North Carolina lawmakers have attempted to transfer control or partial control of at least 29 boards, entities or important executive powers in the past decade that had previously been under control of the governor. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social

During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money. Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:

When the Trump administration began to root out “illegal” DEI efforts, it opened the door to funding cuts for would-be offenders. This created a “chilling effect through fear, intimidation and confusion,” said one lawyer. By @emsimani.bsky.social, design by @zisiga.bsky.social

"Not only did it seem that city leaders had failed to recognize the magnitude of the crisis until one of their own had died, they had also made those bearing the brunt of the pandemic feel responsible for their own demise."

ProPublica Managing Editor @gingerthompson.bsky.social set out to write a David-vs.-Goliath narrative about Albany, Georgia’s response to COVID-19. But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.

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“It comes down to the fact that the FDA is not doing its job,” a retired cardiologist said. “Everything you are swallowing should be tested — there should be no question about it. You don’t want a bad batch coming to the drugstore.”

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NEW: Someone Is Getting Away With Eunice Whitman’s Killing. Alaska’s Slow Justice System Let It Happen, by @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social @adn.com

NEW: Eunice Whitman's boyfriend was indicted for her murder on flawed evidence. A defense witness wrote that police should have treated no fewer than 12 people as suspects of “higher interest.” A decade after the killing, no one has been convicted in Whitman’s death. With @adn.com

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

Justine Paul spent years in jail awaiting trial even as the evidence against him fell apart. Afterward, he lived on the streets and nearly overdosed 10 times. “They took seven and a half years of his life, and I think it broke him,” his lawyer said. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, @adn.com

Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT? Earlier this year, our team compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. These are their stories. https://propub.li/492QTqQ

Those roving patrols and racial targeting that Kavanaugh allowed? This is what they led to. www.propublica.org/article/immi... (from Oct)

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Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, the oncologist who was the subject of my 2024 ProPublica investigation, will never again practice medicine in the state of Montana. One victim’s widow: “It’s definitely welcomed news — very happy to hear it — but with the caveat that this whole thing took way too long.”

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NEW: Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hurting patients.

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Andy Mannix and @jeremykohler.bsky.social have a new installment in what we've been calling our "Forgive and Forget" series. It asks the question, why don't adults with concrete knowledge of child abuse face consequences when they fail to report it to authorities? www.propublica.org/article/minn...

NEW: The Connecticut towing task force was formed as part of a legislative overhaul prompted by a @ctmirror.org and ProPublica investigation that found the state’s laws favored towing companies over vehicle owners.

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

"The hospital was understaffed, and people in the camp were so anemic that they couldn’t get enough blood donations. [Dr.] Otieno had twice donated himself while he was midsurgery in order to save a pregnant woman’s life." @annamaria.bsky.social on the real-world damage done by Trump's aid cuts:

NEW: A Minnesota senator wants to strengthen the state’s mandatory reporting laws, after a @startribune.com and ProPublica investigation found that the leaders of a Duluth church failed to report a child sex predator for years.

NEW: @annamaria.bsky.social spent time at a maternity ward in Kakuma, Kenya, after the Trump administration cut funding for food rations there. New mothers told her stories about their pregnancies as they were left to starve.

When police returned Reggie Williams’ wallet, an officer told him: Don’t do anything bad and keep your ID on you. To Williams, the warning echoed a slavery-era requirement that free African Americans carry documents to prove they weren’t enslaved. (Published Nov. with @mlk50.com)

From the indispensable @propublica.org: "The central clues that prosecutors relied on to connect him to the murder crumbled as soon as anyone checked. But it took dozens of delays, agreed to by a revolving cast of lawyers, before the state finally dropped the case in 2022."

Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

Soon after the county announced charges against Clint Massie, the sheriff began receiving calls from alleged victims across the U.S. Two of them, he realized, were sisters. Neither knew what had happened to the other, or that each had come forward. With @startribune.com

For decades, the FDA made it impossible to know which factory your prescription drugs were manufactured in. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.

"Republicans now hold increased sway not only over North Carolina’s election board, but also over its schools, building codes, environmental regulations, coastal development, wildlife management, utilities, cabinet appointments and more. All had previously been under control of the governor."