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Federal Judge Sees New York State Conspiracy to Thwart Care for Mentally Ill
by Joaquin Sapien A federal judge in Brooklyn has accused state officials of secretly trying to subvert a landmark court order to improve care for thousands of mentally ill residents of New York City....
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U.S. Immigration Agency Will Lose Millions Because It Can’t Process Visas...
by Marcelo Rochabrun Lost amid the uproar over the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants is a change coming to the legal immigration system that’s expected to be costly for both...
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The Car Insurance Industry Attacks Our Story. Here’s Our Response.
Earlier this week, we published an investigation with Consumer Reports in which we found that many minority neighborhoods pay higher car insurance premiums than white areas with the same risk. Our...
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The White House Still Hasn’t Released Most Staffers’ Financial Disclosures
by Ariana Tobin and Derek Kravitz Last Friday night, the White House began making staffers’ financial disclosures “available,” which give a glimpse of officials’ often extraordinary personal wealth....
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Hate Crime Law Results in Few Convictions and Lots of Disappointment
by Ryan Katz, Lance Reyna was assaulted in a school bathroom in 2010. Reyna — who is transgender and gay — was a student at Houston Community College when an attacker held a knife to his throat,...
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Official Involved in Bush-Era Purge of Gay Employees Now in Trump Administration
by Justin Elliott It was one of the uglier scandals of the Bush administration: Top officials at an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers launched a campaign against their own employees based...
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ProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold Medal
ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Donate ProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold Medal April 10, 2017 ProPublica and the New York Daily News today won the Pulitzer Prize for...
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The Trump Administration Lost Again in Court, This Time on Voter ID
by Jessica Huseman A federal court in Texas has again ruled the state’s 2011 voter identification law intentionally discriminated against minorities. It’s the latest loss in the case for Texas — which...
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For-Profit School Chain Camelot Suffers Setback Following Abuse Allegations
by Zoë Kirsch, The Teacher Project, This story was co-published with Slate. The Muscogee County School Board in Columbus, Georgia, dealt another blow to embattled Camelot Education when it voted...
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Trump’s Wall: How Much Money Does the Government Have For It Now?
by T. Christian Miller During the campaign, President Donald Trump promised to build a wall across the southern border some 1,000 miles long. The number of miles the president currently has money for:...
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Another Startling Verdict for Forensic Science
by Ryan Gabrielson Updated (Apr. 14, 2017): Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this week that the Justice Department is closing a federal agency formed four years ago that was designed to...
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DeVos Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for...
by Annie Waldman The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white. As an undergraduate...
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Trump is Hiring Lobbyists and Top Ethics Official Says ‘There’s No Transparency’
by Justin Elliott President Trump has stocked his administration with a small army of former lobbyists and corporate consultants who are now in the vanguard of the effort to roll back government...
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California Group Home Liable for Millions in Case of Abused Boy
by Joaquin Sapien A jury in Sacramento, California, last week awarded more than $11 million to the family of a 16-year-old-boy who had been sexually assaulted by a peer at his group home in Davis. The...
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Secret Hospital Inspections May Become Public at Last
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog. The public could soon get a look at confidential reports about errors, mishaps and mix-ups in the nation’s hospitals that put...
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New Jersey Seeks to Sanction Psychologist for Disclosing Patients’ Diagnoses...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The New York Times. The State of New Jersey is moving to revoke or suspend the license of a prominent psychologist, accusing him of failing to...
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Crime Lab Scandal Forces Prosecutors to Disavow Thousands of Drug Convictions
by Patrick G. Lee During her career as a Massachusetts lab chemist, Annie Dookhan has admitted to making up drug test results and tampering with samples, in the process helping send scores of people...
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Russia’s Shadow-War in a Wary Europe
by Sebastian Rotella As the French prepare to vote Sunday in a presidential election marked by acrimonious debate about Russian influence in Europe, there’s little doubt about which candidate Moscow...
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Remember Those Temporary Officials Trump Quietly Installed? Some Are Now...
by Derek Kravitz Last month, ProPublica revealed that the Trump administration had installed hundreds of political appointees across the federal government without formally announcing them. The more...
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We’re Investigating Hate Across the U.S. There’s No Shortage of Work.
by Joe Sexton and Rachel Glickhouse An African-American homeless man slain with a sword on the streets of New York. A mosque attacked in Fort Collins, Colorado, its windows smashed by a man who...
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