“Ocultos a Plena Vista”: Cientos de Migrantes Menores son Albergados en una...
por Jodi S. Cohen, Duaa Eldeib y Melissa Sanchez Uno de los centros de acogida, en Bronzeville en la zona sur de Chicago, todavía tiene un toldo con el nombre de un asilo, aunque hace años que ningún...
View ArticleWe Found a New Batch of Trump Administration Appointees
by Nisa Khan In 2015, March Bell was Republican staff director and chief counsel for a House panel that investigated Planned Parenthood. The mission: to find out if Planned Parenthood, a system of...
View ArticleKris Kobach’s Lucrative Trail of Courtroom Defeats
by Jessica Huseman and Blake Paterson, ProPublica, and Bryan Lowry and Hunter Woodall, The Kansas City Star Kris Kobach likes to tout his work for Valley Park, Mo. He has boasted on cable TV about...
View ArticleJoin Our Team in Illinois: We’re Looking for a Reporting Fellow
by ProPublica Do you love investigative reporting and want to do more of it? Do you dream of working with and learning from some of the most accomplished journalists in the business? Well, we have...
View ArticleProPublica Hires Reporter James Bandler to Cover Business
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that James Bandler is joining its staff as a senior reporter covering business. He starts on Sept. 4. Bandler has made his reputation writing deep-dive,...
View ArticleProPublica Hires Reporter Jake Pearson to Cover the Trump Administration
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Jake Pearson will join its staff as a reporter covering the Trump administration. He will start on Sept. 4. Pearson comes to ProPublica from the...
View ArticleWhy Paul Manafort’s $15,000 Ostrich Jacket Wasn’t the Biggest Revelation as...
by Nick Varchaver As the first investigation by the team of special counsel Robert Mueller to reach trial, the case of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s one-time presidential campaign manager, has...
View ArticleShe Got Her Baby Back From Immigration Foster Care. Now, What?
by Kavitha Surana HOUSTON — Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya clutched a stuffed unicorn outside the airport arrival gate Saturday morning, as her fiancé Juan Barrera Bucio paced back and forth. He spotted...
View ArticleVideo: The Truth About MS-13
by Ranjani Chakraborty Whether he’s calling the members “animals,” or touting ICE’s efforts to “liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13,” President Donald Trump has made a lot of assertions about the...
View ArticleRecuperó a su bebé del centro de acogida de inmigración. Y, ¿ahora qué?
por Kavitha Surana Read in English. HOUSTON — El sábado por la mañana, en la sala de llegadas del aeropuerto, Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya se aferraba a un unicornio de peluche mientras que su prometido...
View ArticleRefugios para jóvenes inmigrantes: “Si eres un depredador, es una mina de oro”
por Michael Grabell y Topher Sanders Read in English. Solo cinco días después de llegar a los Estados Unidos, un menor hondureño de 15 años se despertó en su refugio de inmigrantes en Tucson, Arizona,...
View ArticleA Truck’s Flying Wheel Kills a Motorist, and the Sanitation Industry’s Safety...
by Kiera Feldman, special to ProPublica The army of private sanitation trucks that race through New York City’s streets every night are often in poor repair, with trucks routinely being declared...
View ArticleProPublica Wins Society of Environmental Journalists Award
by ProPublica The Society of Environmental Journalists announced today that ProPublica won its Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting (Large Market) for “Bombs in Our Backyard.” The...
View ArticleRecords Reveal “Lax” Supervision, Sexual Activity at Chicago-Area Shelters...
by Duaa Eldeib, Jodi S. Cohen and Melissa Sanchez Soon after Christmas 2015, three boys were left unattended in the TV room of a Des Plaines shelter that houses immigrant children and is operated by...
View ArticleOur Rebuttal to Kris Kobach’s Critique
by Jessica Huseman Earlier today, the press team for Kansas gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach distributed a detailed statement asserting that an article published by ProPublica and the Kansas City...
View ArticleWorker Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter
by Topher Sanders and Michael Grabell This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual violence against minors. A youth care worker for Southwest Key has been charged with 11 sex offenses after...
View ArticleWhen Public Records Aren’t Public
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica Last fall, a reporter for the South Bend Tribune asked to see the court files for three criminal cases in Elkhart County,...
View ArticleWe’re Writing About Problems at the Immigrant Shelters Housing Children and...
by Melissa Sanchez, Jodi S. Cohen and Duaa Eldeib Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Hi and hola. This week we wanted to tell you about our reporting on what’s happening inside the 11 shelters...
View ArticleSteve Cohen Is Spending Millions to Help Veterans. Why Are People Angry?
by Isaac Arnsdorf At a House hearing last year on post-traumatic stress disorder, a private organization showed up with an ambitious plan to help suffering veterans. The Cohen Veterans Network was...
View ArticleFor Most Common Heart Surgery, St. Luke’s Has Been Among the Nation’s Worst
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Even as the federal government prepares to cut off funding to Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center’s poorly performing heart...
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