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Suppressed Study: The EPA Underestimated Dangers of Widespread Chemicals
by Abrahm Lustgarten, Lisa Song and Talia Buford A major environmental health study that had been suppressed by the Trump administration because of the “public relations nightmare” it might cause the...
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Federal Judge to Consider Independent Monitor for Illinois Child Welfare Agency
by Duaa Eldeib The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois asked a federal judge on Wednesday to take the rare step of appointing a “special master” to resolve disputes and data requests related to...
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Have You Experienced or Witnessed Civil Rights Violations at a School? Share...
by Adriana Gallardo and Annie Waldman Every year, parents and families file thousands of complaints to the U.S. Department of Education alleging civil rights violations at a school or college, ranging...
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Has Your School Been Investigated for Civil Rights Violations?
by Lena Groeger and Annie Waldman Check if your school has been investigated.
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DeVos Has Scuttled More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Inherited From Obama
by Annie Waldman Whether schoolchildren in DeSoto County, Mississippi, are paddled varies by their race. Black students are almost two and a half times more likely than whites to endure the corporal...
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ProPublica Wins Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation
by ProPublica The Radio Television Digital News Association announced today that ProPublica won an Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence in innovation for its “Lost Mothers” database, a collaboration...
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For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, a Memorized Phone Number...
by Ginger Thompson On a hot and steamy Sunday morning, the man smuggling six-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid and her mother, Cindy, across the border into the United States told them to be...
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What You Need to Know About Wilbur Ross’ Many Conflicts — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast
by ProPublica There’s a chance you missed it amid the other news, but Forbes had a blockbuster story about Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. It turns out, Ross bet against the stock of a company after...
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HUD Is Failing to Protect Children From Lead Paint Poisoning, Audits Find
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to protect hundreds of thousands of children living in subsidized housing from potential exposure...
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Who Are You, Readers? And Do You Trust Us?
by Helga Salinas Helga Salinas is ProPublica Illinois’ new engagement reporting fellow. (Courtesy of Maura Salinas) I often think about these questions: Who are you, readers? And do you trust us? Does...
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Video: Separated From Her Mother at the Border, a 6-Year-Old Has to Find Her...
by Nadia Sussman and Ginger Thompson Earlier this week, millions of people were captivated by audiotape of an insistent six-year-old girl from El Salvador demanding that workers at a U.S. Customs and...
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Medicare to Terminate Funding for St. Luke’s Heart Transplant Program in Houston
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle The federal Medicare program informed Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center on Friday that it would cut off funding to its heart...
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Jared Kushner’s Grandmother Bemoaned the “Closed Doors” That Faced Refugees...
by Allan Sloan Way before Jared Kushner became internationally famous by moving into the White House to work for his father-in-law Donald Trump, those of us who live in New Jersey knew the family was...
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I’ve Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets...
by Hannah Dreier There’s one thing everyone can agree with President Donald Trump on about the street gang MS-13: The group specializes in spectacular violence. Its members attack in groups, in the...
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Para una niña de seis años atrapada en el laberinto de inmigración, un número...
por Ginger Thompson En una mañana cálida y bochornosa de domingo, el traficante que ayudaba a cruzar ilegalmente la frontera de Estados Unidos a Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid, una niña de seis años, y...
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Video: Separada de su madre en la frontera, una niña de seis años tiene que...
por Nadia Sussman y Ginger Thompson La semana pasada, millones de personas fueron cautivadas por la grabación de audio de una insistente niña de seis años exigiendo que funcionarios en un centro de la...
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Behind the Headline: María Eugenia Vela
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa A lawyer from the small Mexican town of Allende, María Eugenia Vela was at work on the evening of March 18, 2011, waiting for a judge to sign off on reports she had written. Her...
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Behind the Headline: Demetrius Smith
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Demetrius Smith was wrongly accused of shooting someone — not once, but twice. In 2008, a jury found Smith guilty of murder and sentenced him to life plus 18 years for shooting...
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ProPublica Wins Two Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Journalism
by ProPublica The UCLA Anderson School of Management has recognized two ProPublica investigations as winners in its 2018 Gerald Loeb Awards, one of the most prestigious honors in business journalism....
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