Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial...
Austin Davis, center, a 26-year-old poet and advocate for homeless people, has become a point of last resort for families who are experiencing homelessness in the Phoenix area. For about a year,...
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The death chamber in Huntsville, Texas Joe Raedle/Getty Images Over the course of two hours, witnesses watched and listened as Christa Pike cried, whimpered and snored through Tennessee’s attempt to...
View ArticleMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held...
Experts have long warned that immigration dragnets and the erosion of civil rights for immigrants will inevitably result in the erosion of rights for citizens. Since the start of this Trump...
View ArticleOur Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He...
Bankrolled by ProPublica, reporter Jake Pearson tested online gambling guardrails by mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler for 10 weeks. Photo illustration by ProPublica. Source images:...
View ArticleHow ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The only requirement to open a private school in Arkansas is displaying a flag and flagpole, so the reporting team visited the local flag shop in Little Rock. Brian Chilson/Arkansas Times It began as...
View ArticleOklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking...
The Flying Monkey disposal well in Enid, Oklahoma. Last year, the city asked the state to revoke the Flying Monkey’s permit to operate. September Dawn Bottoms for ProPublica An Oklahoma oil and gas...
View ArticleWatch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. The agency was examining interactions between...
View ArticleWe’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway.
ProPublica reporters Jennifer Smith Richards, center, and Jodi S. Cohen and Arkansas Times reporter Milo Strain research founding a private school in Little Rock. Brian Chilson/Arkansas Times We have...
View ArticleIt’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can...
Ever imagine yourself as a private school operator? It’s not such a wild idea. Hundreds of new private schools have popped up all over the country in recent years, responding to a surge of public...
View ArticleHer Agency Distributes Billions for Housing Projects. Her Husband’s Company...
Andrea Bell, director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, at a groundbreaking ceremony in 2025 Oregon Housing and Community Services As head of Oregon’s housing finance agency, Andrea Bell...
View ArticleHow Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School...
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune A little-known effort to bring an artificial intelligence tool into Texas public schools began about a year ago, with the...
View ArticleFour Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
Nearly identical headstones mark the burial of brothers from Owyhee County, Idaho, who died in 2022, 2024 and 2025. Each died before his first birthday. Their graves are in the same cemetery as Emma...
View ArticleA Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish...
Courtesy of Emily Marris Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence...
View Article“A Massive Power Grab”: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps...
Amy Miller, a lawyer for the advocacy group Disability Rights Nebraska, puts away voter registration material at the organization’s office in Lincoln. Allison Hess for ProPublica Without Amy Miller,...
View ArticleThe Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
A poster showing a sample mail-in ballot is displayed as U.S. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice on Sept. 22 in Washington,...
View ArticleArizona Lawmaker Proposes More Federal Support for English Fluency Services
Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks at a press conference with other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in Washington, D.C. last year. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images An Arizona...
View ArticleTwo Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm’s Way
K.K. Bautista, left, and her adoptive mother hold their respective children outside a camper at the Hyder Mountain Road mobile home park, where homes previously washed away. Bautista moved there...
View ArticleI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Illustration by Simone Noronha for ProPublica It was late May, the French Open was on and DraftKings was pushing me into the action. A promotion pinged on my phone. “BET & GET,” it boomed,...
View ArticleWhat Does Your Data Reveal About Sports Betting Apps? Help ProPublica Find Out.
Illustration by Simone Noronha for ProPublica If you’re one of millions of Americans who have placed an online bet on a sporting event, you know how quickly you can go from celebrating your wins to...
View ArticleColorado Marijuana Company Voluntarily Recalls Dozens of Contaminated...
Samples of diluted cannabis edibles and flowers sit in vials at Kaycha Labs, a cannabis testing facility in Denver that looks for contaminants in marijuana products. Stephen Swofford, The Denver...
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