With Pam Bondi’s ouster, Todd Blanche is now the interim AG. Here’s our story on him from December: Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets

UPDATE: The DOJ on April 1 sued Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane in federal court. The lawsuit alleges that McGrane’s refusal to provide sensitive voter data violates the Civil Rights Act and asks the court to order him to hand over the information.

An added bonus: you can download the data we used to produce our story! Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border

Metadata for the win, no joke. Before becoming a top official at the EPA, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

NEW: The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules

In case you’re wondering who is getting rich from GOP decision to purge millions from Medicaid: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

“I have never seen in my lifetime a period when antisemitism has been expressed so overtly by both the right and the left,” said Lipstadt. “They agree on nothing else. Only on Jew-hatred.” Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe?

Welcoming our newest partners: @wpln.bsky.social @ctmirror.org @cpipr.bsky.social @wbur.org @laist.com ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Names Five New Partners

Oh happy day! ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Names Five New Partners

After Trump’s inauguration, the Department of Justice turned down a record number of cases. We did the analysis. www.propublica.org/article/trum... @kbmorales.bsky.social @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

NEW: Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration, by @kbmorales.bsky.social and @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

“The doctors said they found scrambled eggs in her lungs.” A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Who deserves justice and who deserves mercy under this administration? My colleague @jeremykohler.bsky.social has a disturbing case study: www.propublica.org/article/jose...

Often overshadowed in the attention around Trump’s pardons is the emotional and financial devastation left behind. Few decisions illustrate that more clearly than the case of Joseph Schwartz, who paid himself millions from his nursing homes while diverting money owed to taxpayers and employees.

A closer look at Joseph Schwartz’s pardon and who got left behind. A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

Impact is the good news of investigative journalism. That's why I'm so proud of this: A Utah legislator was moved to sponsor a bill — now a law — after a @sltrib.com - @propublica.org investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims. @jessicamiller.bsky.social

ICYMI: This Sheriff Says His Department Eliminated Racial Bias. Data Shows Otherwise. w/ @azluminaria.org

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.

IMPACT: Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault A legislator was moved to sponsor the bill — signed into law — following a Salt Lake Tribune-ProPublica investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims. @jessicamiller.bsky.social @sltrib.com

HOLY WOW: More than 30,000 habeas petitions have been filed in the second Trump admin, way more than in the past three administrations combined, including Trump's first.

States like Ohio and Delaware have moved aggressively to make it easier to keep doctors accused of sexual misconduct away from patients. Washington state, by contrast, allowed a doc to keep practicing after 4 complaints alleging sexual misconduct. @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

CONGRATS to partner Tony Schick and Monica Samayoa of @opb.org for winning this year’s Goldsmith Prize for Explanatory Reporting for their amazing project Power Struggle: What Stalled the Northwest’s Push for Green Energy? It was a pleasure to have worked together on this important work!!

“I don’t want to be one of those people that sat. I don’t want to be somebody’s history lesson.” "These are my neighbors, in their city, in their own words." Powerful photo essay by @peterdicampo.bsky.social

Sheriff Jerry Sheridan has declared that his department had eliminated the racial bias that plagued it under his former boss Joe Arpaio. But annual reviews of every traffic stop or arrest of a Latino driver have repeatedly contradicted Sheridan’s claim. w/ @azluminaria.org

The first accusation against Dr. Mark Mulholland came in January 2022. Two more arrived in 2023 and a fourth in 2024 before the board took action against his license last year. Then even more patients came forward. @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org

Thoughtful story by partner Rafael Carranza @azluminaria.org about the new sheriff in town in Maricopa County, Arizona: This Sheriff Says His Department Eliminated Racial Bias. Data Shows Otherwise.

SO MANY questions and thoughts after reading this story: An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing. by partner @ashleyhiruko.bsky.social @kuow.org

With the federal government refusing to identify agents or share evidence with Minnesota investigators, the dispute has become a game of constitutional chicken over states’ rights versus federal immunity.

NEW: Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable

Documents obtained by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting reveal that new Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” to waive proof-of-income requirements at Santander Consumer USA.

NEWS: New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending w/ @opb.org

Louisiana prosecutor Hugo Holland has had a career mired in controversy: concealing of evidence, allegations of racism, submission of false paperwork. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner in a judicial race. @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org

Meanwhile in Louisiana: He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge. by @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"To give the public more insight into who owns American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities."

A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination as ambassador to Hungary, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility is suing to stop collection. @emcahan.bsky.social

ProPublica analysis: Under Trump, Arrests of Immigrant Parents With U.S.-Born Children Have Surged www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“I’m worried that we’re going back to a time where people die in childhood.” How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Trump’s Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments, by @emcahan.bsky.social

GOOD NEWS: ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database

The differences between the fates of detained immigrant parents under Biden and Trump are stark, our analysis shows. Trump is deporting about four times as many moms of U.S. citizen children per day as Biden did.

The Trump Nominee Whose Company Is Suing the Trump Administration

NEW and STUNNING: A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

ICYMI: A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like. @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January. The shift follows weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread publication of letters written by detained children. @micarosenberg.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court. A look at this emerging trend. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

NEWS: The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January. @micarosenberg.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. Watch the hearing @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

OMG this scene! DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator www.propublica.org/article/trum...