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FBI and New York City Regulators Search Offices of Private Trash Hauler
by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica The FBI and New York City regulators raided the corporate offices of a major private trash hauler last week, the latest sign of trouble for an industry under fire. It...
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Senators Urge IRS to Focus on Big-Time Tax Cheats, Citing ProPublica Stories
by Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger In a letter on Friday , a group of prominent senators — including Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., 2020 presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie...
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HUD Plans to Reduce Notice Given Before Inspections, but Advocates Are...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan In 2016, senior officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development drafted recommendations to fix the agency’s broken inspection system for...
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Facebook and Twitter Turned to TurboVote to Drive Registrations. Officials...
by Jessica Huseman In 2018, Facebook and Twitter decided to play a role in helping people register to vote in what promised to be a momentous midterm election. To do so, the social media platforms...
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Announcing ProPublica’s 20 Diversity Scholarship Recipients
by ProPublica We’re excited to announce the 20 recipients of the 2019 ProPublica Diversity Scholarship. Each of these talented journalists will receive a $750 scholarship to attend a conference in...
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Head of New York City’s Private Trash Industry Regulator Is Stepping Down
by Joe Sexton The head of the agency that regulates New York City’s private trash collection is resigning, a move that comes after months of embarrassing news coverage and calls for the agency to step...
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The Tragedy of Baltimore
by Alec MacGillis On April 27, 2015, Shantay Guy was driving her 13-year-old son home across Baltimore from a doctor’s appointment when something — a rock, a brick, she wasn’t sure what — hit her car....
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How the Rich Really Play, “Who Wants To Be An Ivy Leaguer?”
by Daniel Golden My 2006 book, “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates,” was intended as a work of investigative...
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After Controversy, Heartland to Close Four Illinois Shelters for Immigrant Youth
by Melissa Sanchez, Duaa Eldeib, and Jodi S. Cohen Eight months after its shelters for immigrant children came under public scrutiny over allegations of abuse and lax supervision, Heartland Human Care...
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Oregon Should Overhaul Handling of Insanity Defendants, Says Head of...
by Les Zaitz, The Malheur Enterprise PORTLAND, Ore. — The state of Oregon needs to overhaul the way it handles people found guilty except for insanity and better track what happens to them once they...
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Después de la controversia, Heartland va a cerrar cuatro albergues para...
por Melissa Sanchez, Duaa Eldeib y Jodi S. Cohen Ocho meses después de que sus albergues para niños inmigrantes fueran sometidos a escrutinio público debido a acusaciones por abuso y supervisión...
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Head of Rhode Island’s 911 System Is Removed From Post
by Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio The acting director of Rhode Island’s 911 emergency system has been removed from his post after state police learned he’d been training 911 call takers in CPR...
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5 Things You Need to Know About the Closing of Immigrant Youth Shelters in...
by Logan Jaffe Since last summer, we’ve done a lot of reporting on a secretive network of shelters in Illinois that houses thousands of immigrant children each year. We started looking into the...
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Have TSA Agents Searched Your Hair in Airport Security Lines? Tell Us.
by Brenda Medina, ProPublica, and Thomas Frank for ProPublica We want to know if airline passengers believe they have faced discrimination in hair pat-downs. In 2015, the Transportation Security...
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Kentucky Legislature Passes Bill Stripping Grimes of Authority Over State...
by Jessica Huseman The Kentucky legislature passed a bill on Thursday that strips Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes of her authority over the State Board of Elections, restructures the SBE...
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ProPublica and Houston Chronicle Project Named a Finalist for Health Care...
by ProPublica The ProPublica and Houston Chronicle project “Heart Failure” has been named a finalist for the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation’s Health Care Print Journalism...
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Despite Crackdowns, White Supremacist and Neo-Nazi Videos Take Stubborn Root...
by A.C. Thompson and Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, and Christopher Mathias, HuffPost In his 74-page manifesto, Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman responsible for the massacres at two mosques in...
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Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe
by Robert Faturechi and Justin Elliott Federal authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and...
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VA’s Private Care Program Headed for Tech Trouble, Review Finds
by Isaac Arnsdorf As the Trump administration prepares to launch a controversial program to expand private medical care for veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs is developing a software tool...
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Cook County Judge Blocks ProPublica Illinois From Publishing Details of Child...
by Steve Mills and Mick Dumke In an unusual move, a Cook County Juvenile Court judge has barred ProPublica Illinois, as well as other media, from publishing any information that could identify...
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