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The Coal Industry Extracted a Steep Price From West Virginia. Now Natural Gas...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail It was a warm Monday afternoon in late February. Thousands of teachers, public school employees and supporters rallied on the steps of West Virginia’s...
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Were Henry’s Civil Rights Violated?
by Hannah Dreier The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether the civil rights of a Long Island teenager were violated when immigration officials used admissions he made to police as...
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HUD May Soon Evict Residents in Two Public Housing Complexes in Southern...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that about 40 families remaining in two dilapidated public housing complexes in...
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How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge...
by Jeremy B. Merrill Cambridge Analytica thinks that I’m a “Very Unlikely Republican.” Another political data firm, ALC Digital, has concluded I’m a “Socially Conservative,” Republican, “Boomer...
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Bank of Internet, Which Had Been Under Federal Investigation, Appears In...
by Justin Elliott A bank that had been under federal investigation until last year has played a role in two recent real estate transactions involving Kushner Companies, Jared Kushner’s family company....
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FBI’s Violent Crime Database to Get Financial Boost From Justice Department
by T. Christian Miller The Justice Department is seeking to bolster the FBI’s efforts at apprehending violent criminals — issuing grants for local police departments to test rape kits and requiring...
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ProPublica, NPR Win MOLLY Journalism Prize for “Sold for Parts”
by ProPublica The Texas Observer and the Texas Democracy Foundation announced today that ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell and NPR’s Howard Berkes are the winners of the 2018 MOLLY National...
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ProPublica’s Rachel Glickhouse Named Livingston Award Finalist
by ProPublica Rachel Glickhouse, the partner manager for ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project, has been named a finalist in this year’s Livingston Awards, which honor outstanding achievement by...
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University of Illinois at Chicago Officials Defend Handling of Researcher’s...
by Jodi S. Cohen University of Illinois at Chicago officials on Tuesday told faculty, staff and students that research misconduct by one of the campus’ star faculty members was an anomaly and there...
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“Sold for Parts” Wins Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
by ProPublica Hunter College announced today that the ProPublica and NPR series “Sold for Parts” won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. In the series’ first piece, ProPublica...
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ProPublica Illinois, Chicago Tribune Win Driehaus Award for Investigative...
by ProPublica The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune project “The Tax Divide” is the winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Investigative Reporting. The award honors achievement...
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Baltimore to Pay Largest Settlement in City History — $9 Million — to Man...
by Megan Rose Baltimore officials today approved a $9 million settlement — the largest in city history — to James “J.J.” Owens, who spent two decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Owens’...
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Climate Change and Vulnerable Communities — Let’s Talk About This Hot Mess.
by Talia Buford Climate change will impact us all, no matter who we are or where we live. But that doesn’t mean it will hit us equally. Climate change may not discriminate, but people do. As a...
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Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military
A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica, and Jake Hanrahan, special to ProPublica The 18-year-old, excited by his handiwork at the bloody rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last...
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Trump’s Appointees Pledged Not to Lobby After They Leave. Now They’re Lobbying.
by Derek Kravitz and Alex Mierjeski Lobbyists who joined the Trump administration and now want to return to their old trade have a problem: President Trump said they can’t. Days after taking office,...
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Whoops! Jared Kushner Made Even More Mistakes in His Federal Filings
by Justin Elliott Jared Kushner’s ethics disclosure filing misstated the financials on two Brooklyn loans, the latest in a long series of errors and omissions on the form. A Kushner representative...
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Did Your Employer Ask You to Sign Away Your Right to Talk? We Want to Know...
by Ariana Tobin When you walk into the lobby of many major tech companies, one of the first things you’ll encounter is a tablet screen laying out what you can and can’t talk about after you leave....
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One West Virginia County Tried to Break Its Dependence on the Energy...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — Matt Wender’s vision for Fayette County begins with the New River Gorge. Whitewater rafters, hikers and mountain bikers congregate...
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Those Questions You’ve Been Asking About Journalism? We Ask Them, Too.
by Logan Jaffe In early January, we at ProPublica Illinois decided to make explaining our jobs part of our jobs. We asked you to send us questions about how journalism works — and since then we’ve...
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We’ve Updated FEC Itemizer. See What’s New.
by Derek Willis and Sisi Wei, ProPublica, and Aaron Bycoffe, special to ProPublica
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