Pro-Russian Bots Take Up the Right-Wing Cause After Charlottesville
by Isaac Arnsdorf Angee Dixson joined Twitter on Aug. 8 and immediately began posting furiously — about 90 times a day. A self-described American Christian conservative, Dixson defended President...
View ArticleFlorida Lawmakers to Review Law Targeting Injured Undocumented Workers
By Howard Berkes, NPR, and Michael Grabell, ProPublica, This story was co-published with NPR. The second-highest ranking member of the Florida Senate pledged a legislative review of a state law that...
View ArticleFailure to Set Cost of Carbon Hampers Trump’s Effort to Expand Use of Fossil...
by Andrew Revkin President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost fossil fuel extraction face a courtroom hurdle of his own making. His March 28 executive order “promoting energy independence and economic...
View ArticleThe Breakthrough: Behind the Scenes of Hillary Clinton’s Failed Bid for...
by Jessica Huseman .player_box, div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed { display: none; } We watched on election night as dejected Hillary Clinton supporters poured out of New York City’s Javits...
View ArticleLegisladores de Florida revisarán la ley que persigue a trabajadores...
por Howard Berkes, NPR, y Michael Grabell, ProPublica, Read in English. La senadora con el segundo rango más alto de Florida prometió una revisión legislativa de una ley estatal que ha permitido que...
View ArticleWhy Houston Isn’t Ready for Harvey
by Al Shaw, ProPublica, Neena Satija and Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune Houston faces massive flooding from Harvey. Here’s where it’s flooded in the past.
View ArticleWhite Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before...
By George Joseph, Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right”...
View ArticleHave You Experienced Hate Speech on Facebook? We Want To Hear From You.
by Julia Angwin, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner, ProPublica, Earlier this month, in the wake of the Charlottesville attack on protesters, a post began circulating on Facebook titled: “Heather...
View ArticleTrump’s Pardon Aside, Reporters Have Built Long Rap Sheet Against Sheriff Joe
by Ryan Gabrielson President Donald Trump issued his first pardon to Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff famous for using his local police force to aggressively pursue undocumented...
View ArticleHouston’s Dams Won’t Fail. But Many Homes Will Have to Be Flooded to Save Them
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune and Reveal, and Al Shaw and Lisa Song, ProPublica, The water that goes around the spillways is going to have to leave the reservoir...
View ArticleAre You an Immigrant Protected by DACA? We Want to Hear From You.
by Marcelo Rochabrun Since he became president, Donald Trump has been pondering whether to continue one of President Obama’s signature immigration programs. Known as Deferred Action for Childhood...
View ArticleWe’ve Updated Prescriber Checkup
by Ryann Grochowski Jones , Lena Groeger and Charles Ornstein Medicare’s popular prescription-drug program serves more than 42 million people and pays for more than one of every four prescriptions...
View ArticleWhy Giving Birth is Safer in Britain Than in the U.S.
by Kate Womersley, special to ProPublica At 11:58 p.m. this past June 25, Helen Taylor gave birth to her first baby, a boy, at West Suffolk Hospital in the East of England. At 11:59 p.m., with 15...
View ArticleAt Last, Air Monitor Set to Test for Lead Near Military Open Burn Site
by Abrahm Lustgarten Virginia environment officials say they will soon begin monitoring the air near a public elementary school outside the town of Radford amid concerns that pollution from an Army...
View ArticleLifting the Veil on Another Batch of Shadowy Trump Appointees
by Derek Kravitz President Donald Trump has left hundreds of government jobs unfilled that require a vote by the Senate. Yet his administration has installed more than 1,000 people through political...
View ArticleWill Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?
by Marcelo Rochabrun Marco Guajardo starts a new job today that, he said, will provide him with health insurance for the first time. Matias Zubko is set to close on a new house on Wednesday. Roberto...
View ArticleThousands of Criminal Cases in New York Relied on Disputed DNA Testing...
by Lauren Kirchner This story was co-published with The New York Times. Over the past decade, the DNA laboratory in the office of New York City’s chief medical examiner emerged as a pioneer in...
View ArticleAnother Thing Disappearing From Rural America: Maternal Care
by Adriana Gallardo Maternity care is disappearing from America’s rural counties, and for the 28 million women of reproductive age living in those areas, pregnancy and childbirth are becoming more...
View ArticleWe've Updated Prescriber Checkup
by Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein and Lena Groeger
View ArticleRisky, Overused Medications Prescribed Far Less Often in the Aloha State
by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones If you think you would be healthier if you lived in Hawaii, you may be right. People in Hawaii appear to be much less likely to overuse problematic...
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