Judge: Kushner Company Must Reveal Identities of Real Estate Partners
by Alec MacGillis A federal judge in Maryland ruled Friday that Jared Kushner’s family real estate company could not keep secret the identities of its partners in Baltimore-area apartment complexes...
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by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica, and Jake Hanrahan, special to ProPublica The California man accused of killing a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student...
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New Details Alleged in Scheme to Make Millions Off First Border Wall in Texas
by Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune, and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica The kickback scheme was allegedly hashed out over weeknight drinks at a steakhouse in a border county in south Texas. Amid surf...
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Facebook’s Experiment in Ad Transparency Is Like Playing Hide And Seek
by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Shortly before a Toronto City Council vote in December on whether to tighten regulation of short-term rental companies, an entity called Airbnb Citizen ran an ad on the...
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ProPublica, NPR ‘Lost Mothers’ Series is a Finalist for Goldsmith Prize for...
by ProPublica ProPublica and NPR’s series on maternal mortality in the U.S., ‘Lost Mothers’, is one of six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Led by ProPublica reporters...
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Unnecessary Medical Care Is More Common Than You Think
by Marshall Allen It’s one of the intractable financial boondoggles of the U.S. health care system: Lots and lots of patients get lots and lots of tests and procedures that they don’t need. Women...
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Congressman’s Bill Would Force Trump Administration to Fulfill Pledge to...
by Julia Angwin Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., introduced legislation last week requiring federal authorities to examine racial disparities in auto insurance premiums, citing a story co-published by...
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As March Primary Nears, Study on Cook County Property Tax System Still Under...
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica, and Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune An independent study to gauge the fairness and accuracy of residential property tax assessments in Cook County was scheduled to be...
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Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer Resigns Over Handling of Sexual...
by Justin Elliott and Ariana Tobin American Red Cross General Counsel David Meltzer has resigned after a ProPublica story detailed troubling aspects of how he handled a sexual misconduct case...
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NLRB Member Is Under Investigation for a Conflict of Interest
by Ian MacDougall The inspector general for the National Labor Relations Board is investigating whether a Trump appointee to the board breached government ethics rules, according to two congressional...
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ProPublica Projects are Finalists for Three National Magazine Awards
ProPublica Finalists for the Ellie Awards, which honor excellence in print and digital media, were announced today, with ProPublica recognized in both the Public Interest and Reporting categories....
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Revelations About the FBI’s Delay on Clinton Emails May Be Less Than They Seem
by Peter Elkind Media reports this week have focused fresh attention on how the Federal Bureau of Investigation managed the dramatic discovery — five weeks before the 2016 presidential election — of...
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Sometimes, Impact Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
by Jason Grotto Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Few things get journalists — especially investigative journalists — more jazzed than impact. That is, when we write a story that leads to...
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How Do Young Journalists Get Their Training?
by Natalie Escobar A few weeks ago, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work and were inundated with thoughtful, challenging questions about journalism....
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Got a Question About Work in the Wake of #MeToo? You’re Not Alone.
by Ariana Tobin Last month, we published a story about a Red Cross executive accused of sexual misconduct. An internal investigation turned up troubling evidence that prompted the charity to push him...
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How VW Paid $25 Billion for Dieselgate — And Got Off Easy
by Roger Parloff for ProPublica On Dec. 6, former Volkswagen engineer Oliver Schmidt was led into a federal courtroom in Detroit in handcuffs and leg irons. He was wearing a blood-red jumpsuit, his...
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Judge Dismisses Libel Suit Involving ProPublica Article
by Ian MacDougall A judge in Brooklyn has thrown out a libel lawsuit against two reporters brought by the subjects of a 2015 ProPublica investigation that raised serious concerns about lax state...
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Florida Bill Seeks to Stop Arrests of Injured Immigrant Workers
by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR A new bill under consideration by Florida lawmakers would stop insurance companies from dodging payouts by aiding in the arrest and deportation...
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Coming From ProPublica and WNYC: ‘Trump, Inc.,’ the Podcast
by ProPublica Donald J. Trump is president, yet we're still trying to answer basic questions about his businesses. And it’s almost impossible to see the line between Trump the president and Trump the...
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