Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. (Published Aug. 2025 with @adn.com)

UPDATE: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 40,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We're continuing to track the increase in these cases:

The Federal Parent Locator Service contains sensitive details about individual children, and it’s meant for finding people who owe child support. Granting access to DHS would violate a federal law that explicitly limits its use, officials said.

A recent series of groundbreaking investigations have shed light on the oil industry’s wastewater crisis — and how it's threatening land, water and people all over the country. RSVP for our virtual talk w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org @desmog.com tomorrow, April 28 at 4 pm ET:

Memphis Mayor Paul Young has repeatedly said Trump’s task force is meant to help the city police target violent crime, not detain immigrants. That’s not what our data analysis with @mlk50.com shows.

"In his work as an organizer around the state, he often hears of people getting towed soon after asking for repairs or reporting problems with housing conditions at their properties. 'They’re still using these tow trucks like hired hitmen to go after tenants'" www.propublica.org/article/conn...

This is why we need local journalism and why we can't look away when something seems fixed. Some Connecticut Towing Companies Are Ignoring New Law Aimed at Helping Low-Income Residents, by partners @ginnymonk.bsky.social and Dave Altimari of @ctmirror.org

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We've updated our habeas tracker again, and more than **40,000** new cases have been opened since Trump took office again. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

NEW: A limited-government advocate in Texas persuaded five small towns to incorporate as “liberty cities,” which feature lean governments, little to no taxation and scant regulation. At least two of them struggle to provide basic services. With @texastribune.org

NEW: Connecticut legislators overhauled the state’s towing law last year to make it more fair for low-income residents who couldn’t afford the fees to get their cars back. But some towing companies aren’t following the new rules. With @ctmirror.org

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.

Conservative education activists such as Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice now have access to the top levers of the government. “If America’s public schools cease to exist tomorrow, America would be a better place,” Justice told ProPublica. (Published Oct. 2025)

New solar installations in the U.S. dropped by 14% last year. Among the challenges: pushback from critics who claim, without evidence, that solar panels pose a health threat.

Nearly a year ago, Trump's counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka said his blueprint to combat threats was “imminent.” By July, he was “on the cusp” of unveiling it — a phrase he repeated in October and again in January. No plan has appeared, and no explanation given for the delay.

For years, Molly Parker has reported on housing and broken promises in Cairo, Illinois. But this story became one of the most windy and wild reporting journeys of her life. It started with a question: What in the hell is this abandoned printer doing here? From our weekly newsletter:

WATCH: A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica's @robert-faturechi.bsky.social reached out to a Canadian defense official and a Latvian businessman tied to Ukraine. The impostor wasn’t after money, but confidential information. So the real Faturechi did some reporting of his own.

Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” (Published Nov. 2025)

Under Purdue’s new $7.4 billion settlement plan, estimated payouts for people whose family members fatally overdosed on OxyContin dropped to as little as $8,000. It used to be $48,000. With @inquirer.com

Drillers have long injected a toxic waste product of oil and gas production underground. Increasingly, it doesn’t stay where it should, instead contaminating drinking water or blasting back to the surface. ➡️ Join our virtual discussion: https://events.propublica.org/wastewater-crisis/bluesky

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022 with @newyorker.com)

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. (Published Dec. 2025 with @highcountrynews.org)

Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.

In 2011, a Chicago officer pulled a woman over just to get her phone number, then called or texted her nearly 30 times. Between 2017 and 2019, he was reported for sexual misconduct three more times before he was finally arrested. (Published May 2025 w/ @invisible.institute)

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. (Pub. Dec. 2025 w/ @theassemblync.bsky.social)

Letters reveal a decadeslong strategy, starting with targeted programs for needy kids then expanding benefits to all families, by politicians, church officials, and activists who all believe that the separation of church and state is illegitimate. (Published Jan. 2025 w/ @newyorker.com)

Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat. Despite little reputable evidence for this, their fears have helped undercut efforts across the U.S. to broaden energy sources, slowing installations even as customer costs are rising. ☀️ My new story at @propublica.org -

Documents obtained by ProPublica and @opb.org revealed that Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” to waive proof-of-income requirements at car loan company Santander Consumer USA. (Published March)

NEW: Critics claim large solar farms are a public health threat. Despite little reputable evidence for this, their fears have helped undercut efforts across the U.S. to broaden energy sources, slowing installations even as customer costs are rising.

“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)

Four female patients complained to the state’s medical commission about OG-GYN Dr. Mark Mulholland from 2022 through 2024. Because the board waited until September 2025 to restrict Mulholland’s license, he kept practicing — and seeing more patients who would later file complaints.

1/ We’re honored to announce “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram,” an investigative documentary by ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social, is a 2026 Peabody Award winner: propub.li/4cuPT1O

When DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story: https://propub.li/3OBQMwk

The war in Iran has locked Trump into a showdown with a sophisticated state sponsor of terrorism at a time when U.S. security agencies have hemorrhaged experts and the White House counterterrorism czar has yet to release a plan to fight threats.

Watch ProPublica's @jenafifield.bsky.social on PBS News Hour below and read her recent investigation with @dougbockclark.bsky.social into the Trump White House's efforts to exert influence over local elections here:

Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its opioid drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation from the company’s $7.4 billion settlement. Read ProPublica (@propublica.org ) and The Inquirer’s report ⤵️

When two men announced their plans to solve this Illinois town’s housing crisis with a 3D printer, City Council member Connie Williams warned them not to make promises they couldn’t keep. “They were like, ‘No, no … God sent us,’” she said. With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

Despite all of the noise about holding the Sacklers accountable, it’s shocking that this is where we have ended up. After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement. “A Punch in the Gut” w/ @inquirer.com

Are You Waiting for Opioid Settlement Money From Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? Get in Touch. Our recent investigation details changes to a bankruptcy settlement that leaves out some of the hardest-hit victims of the opioid crisis. Here’s how you can share your story with ProPublica & @inquirer.com:

NEW: Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation under a new payout plan. With @inquirer.com

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.” “I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call. (Published Feb.)

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

For the first time since ProPublica reported on preventable deaths of pregnant women under Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s medical board has disciplined doctors in those cases.

The U.S. is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world. And yet, when it comes to health outcomes among the world’s wealthiest countries, the U.S. ranks last. Read "Sick in a Hospital Town," a 2026 Hillman Prize winner:

New Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon is all over the news as details come out of all the penny-pinching he's done since taking over the NBA team. This probably won't come as a surprise to folks familiar with how Dundon amassed his wealth from sketchy subprime auto loans:

ProPublica & partners are nominated for 2 @theemmys.tv awards! Our films “Estatus: Venezolano” and “Sobreviviendo al CECOT” are nominated in the outstanding news feature in Spanish and outstanding investigative news coverage in Spanish categories, respectively: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...