Nike says an average worker at the foreign factories that make its goods earns almost twice the local minimum wage. Workers in the company’s second-largest hub, Indonesia, say local wages remain chronically low. With @oregonian.com

For @oregonian.com and @propublica.org: The average worker at suppliers that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers I spoke with in Indonesia, Nike’s second-largest production hub, said they made that much. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

A note from our editors:

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Last year, I went to Cambodia to explore Nike's claim that it pays factory workers 1.9X the minimum wage on average. It wasn't true there. My reporting partner, @matthewkish.bsky.social, went to Indonesia and asked ~100 workers whether they earn 1.9X. None did. Said one union official: "Bullshit."

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child. A 16-year-old citizen DHS calls this "utmost professionalism" w/ @mckenziefunk.com

In Portland, where Border Patrol shot two people last week, "there is no body camera footage from any of the six Border Patrol officers."

As the Trump administration gutted USAID this year, officials, including Marco Rubio, said over and over that lifesaving operations would continue around the world and that nobody had died because of the cuts.

Such preventable death. Such powerful reporting. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

NEW: For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha. For decades, the government cleaned it up. But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer. Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

"Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud." 👀 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump sent the National Guard to fight what he called "violent radical left terrorism" in Portland. At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats. Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."

Trump sent the National Guard to fight what he called "violent radical left terrorism" in Portland. At the same time, he's been withholding millions to prepare for what emergency managers say are actual terror threats. Trump's FEMA says its spending became "a slush fund for woke projects."

"They’re using a clearly vulnerable, clearly sympathetic population in a way that sends a powerful message to literally every other population ... that no one is safe.” www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Thanks, @oregonian.com, for front-paging our story about Fox News' misleading coverage of Portland before Trump ordered in the National Guard. www.propublica.org/article/port...

Grateful to @oregonian.com and @oregoncapitalchronicle.com for sharing our story about Fox News' misleading coverage of Portland before Trump ordered the National Guard. ICYMI: www.propublica.org/article/port...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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.

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.” By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

And that's a permanent injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Immergut preventing the National Guard from being deployed in Portland. The judge says the president exceeded his authority. The opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF

President Trump claimed the National Guard was needed in "war-ravaged" Portland. But a @propublica.org review of protests in the months leading up to his claims -- including more than 700 (!!) videos -- show a different reality. via @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

NEW: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. In 2 months before Trump said he was sending the National Guard, federal officers fire on, grab, pepper-spray or tear gas people 20 times -- without charging anyone. "Gratuitous," one expert said.

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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

The Trump administration isn't tracking how many American citizens have been detained by immigration agents. So ProPublica did. @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented citizens being dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot. A must-read. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant. By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Two things felt different to the ppl I spoke with who’d been protesting at the ICE building for months. 1st was the sheer volume of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs used, seemingly unprovoked. 2nd was seeing so many videographers/live-streamers embedded with the feds as they marched out.

President Trump said conditions continue to deteriorate. Here’s what the newsroom saw.

A judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt its mobilization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect the ICE building in Portland and its officers amid nightly protests. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

The guy buying the Portland Trail Blazers is using a fortune "that was built on predatory lending. ... He made lots of profit ... on the backs of low- and poor-credit individuals.” And now the team is poised to ask for public money to stay in Portland. www.propublica.org/article/tom-...

NEW: Portland Trail Blazers buyer Tom Dundon created a company that Oregon sued in 2020, alleging it issued predatory loans to residents. He went on to invest in another subprime lender that’s come under regulatory scrutiny. With @opb.org

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When Oregon mapped wildfire risks to properties, some insurance brokers and homeowners blamed the map, without evidence, for policy cancellations and price hikes. Others called it part of a big plan to “depopulate rural areas.”

RFK Jr. in January: "If confirmed, I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines." Today:

This Oregon heroin bust was billed as having an "astronomical" amount of liquid heroin, what prosecutors called "enough for 50 million fatal doses." It was mostly water, not even enough for a single fatal dose. Via @maxbernstein.bsky.social. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Wow. Oregon repeatedly promised free cleanup to fire survivors who lost their homes this summer. Then yanked it without explanation. The state says: "Our intent was not to lie to people.”

The Idaho coroners' association president said his focus right now is on “low-hanging fruit” rather than major systemic fixes. A few of the coroners his association represents, though, say it's time for an overhaul of Idaho's frontier-era system. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

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.

NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With @opb.org