NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson. This is what we documented. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

We reported in July that Trump was poised to slash regs protecting the public and the environment during rocket launches by companies like SpaceX. Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order making it happen. Here’s our story. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The biggest landlord in the US will stop using rent-setting algorithms that critics say can result in price-fixing. Greystar settled after federal prosecutors sued it, other landlords and the software’s maker. We first wrote about the practice in 2022. www.propublica.org/article/grey...

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by USAID

We learned the Trump admin is moving to slash regs on launch companies — like Elon Musk’s SpaceX — that aim to protect people and the enviro. The changes come despite explosions that sent debris raining on the Caribbean and Gulf. www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @tophersanders.bsky.social

NEW: A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.

Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.

🎧 Our reporter @abrahm.bsky.social was on @npr.org's Fresh Air today to talk about how Trump's undermining of science — at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common — is "extraordinarily concerning":

The pressure is building on health providers who offer gender-affirming care for trans kids: Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children

NEW: The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled. The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come. By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.

Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump administration. They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH.

Hooray! The new encrypted tips form Ive been working on with @phiffer.org is now live! Very, very proud and delighted with this effort. www.propublica.org/tips/#submit

White House report re “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma. By Dani Blum and Maggie Astor www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

The 2-year-old, native-born U.S. citizen, removed by ICE in February, is now stuck in Poté on a soon-to-expire tourist visa without a Brazilian citizen’s access to routine pediatric checkups, day care or school @terrencemccoy.bsky.social and Marina Dias report www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Late Wed., Sen. Amy Klobuchar told us there is bipartisan support for AI rules and bipartisan oppo to the moratorium: “By preventing cities and states from protecting renters and allowing landlords to leverage AI to collude, House Republicans would raise rents even more while reducing competition."

In 2022, @propublica.org found landlords were using RealPage software to raise rents — potentially in violation of laws against collusion. Cities then moved to ban such pricing algorithms. But now, @wsj.com reports that House Republicans are seeking to “muzzle” those local efforts. THREAD

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

SpaceX's Starship 9 is scheduled to launch tonight. The last two Starship launches resulted in explosions and rained debris over the Caribbean, which will also be in flight path for this launch. UK officials tried — to no avail — to get the FAA to change the rocket's flight plans.

Update: Shortly after we published this story, the FAA announced it had approved Starship 9's launch, pending the completion of an investigation into the previous explosion.

Worried about 2 SpaceX Starships that exploded over British territories, the UK sent a letter Wed expressing safety concerns abt the next rocket. Late today, FAA approved Starship 9's launch anyway. It will occur at non-peak times but could disrupt 175 flights www.propublica.org/article/spac...

NEW: Behind closed doors, the Trump administration has mounted a “maximum pressure” campaign on a poor African democracy. The objective: push the country to help Elon Musk's Starlink business. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

New from PP: The US has been pressuring countries in Africa to grant licenses to Musk’s Starlink. “If this was done by another country, we absolutely would call this corruption,” said a former Bush official. “Because it is corruption.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

DOGE cuts to the IRS: -Auditors: Down 31% -Revenue officers who oversee challenging tax cases: down 18% -Tax examiners: Down 10% blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories... The thing is: They have to know that the result will be more tax cheating. So how can that not be the intent?

Experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s proposal to slash roughly 43 percent of funding for federal housing programs, like Section 8 vouchers, could have devastating effects for millions of Americans.

You might be wondering how the Trump administration is shutting the Education Department -- something only Congress can do. Look to ED's Office for Civil Rights for the answer: Render it "useless," then subvert the core mission. This story takes you inside OCR and how students are being harmed.

"The flu vaccination rate for U.S. children has plummeted from about 64% five years ago to 49% this season."

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

The deportation of Heidy Sánchez has been "sudden and traumatic for their infant daughter, still breastfeeding and with ongoing health issues... 'The baby does not want to eat. They ripped the child from her mother’s arms at the immigration office.'" www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

🚨NEW investigation from me and @jeremykohler.bsky.social We dug into the past of Ed Martin, Trump's top prosecutor in D.C. What we found is remarkable. Best of all: We got the receipts. Pls read and share. www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...

The morning after the election, I had a panicked thought: “My threat model is wrong.” I’d been giving privacy advice for years, but my counsel would not protect against an authoritarian president seeking revenge against political enemies. Tyranny was going to require a new threat model.

Our story today about workers' concerns that one of the largest baby formula plants in the US isn't always following food safety procedures comes on the heels of this CBS story on the impact of FDA cuts on food inspections: www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

Workers at one of the US's largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Labs facility is engaging in unsanitary practices. Tbt to my vid on @heathervogell.bsky.social's investigation into Abbot & Mead Johnson's efforts to protect the US's formula biz abroad at the cost of young children's health.

Days after Trump slashed FDA, workers at one of the largest US baby formula plants say it’s engaging in unsanitary practices, like in '22. In one case, cardboard from a trash bin was used to funnel organic formula, they said. Abbott called the accounts “untrue or misleading” tinyurl.com/5ybj2k6e

The huge baby formula plant whose ’22 closure led to a shortage is failing to properly fix leaks and clean, workers told me. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” said one, who worries a child will get sick. Abbott called the workers’ accounts “untrue or misleading.” tinyurl.com/5ybj2k6e

NEW: “Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” one told ProPublica. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

Workers told @propublica.org that an employee used cardboard from a trash bin to funnel coconut oil into a tank during production of the company’s Pure Bliss by Similac Organic brand formula. New, by @heathervogell.bsky.social

NEW: There’s a massive Agent Orange site in Vietnam. USAID was funding a cleanup. Then Trump stopped work. Now the rainy season is about to start, and the runoff could poison hundreds of thousands. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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New: NASA official tells staff to use caution in public after reports that federal worker was hassled. www.propublica.org/article/nasa...

The Trump admin is killing aid programs en masse, contrary to what it told a federal court. One program is for extremely malnourished babies -- who may die within hours without treatment. The program costs $120k / month. www.propublica.org/article/trum...