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Red Cross ‘Failed for 12 Days’ After Historic Louisiana Floods

by Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, In August, the country’s worst natural disaster since 2012’s Superstorm Sandy hit Louisiana. Flooding killed 13 people and left more than 80,000 homes severely damaged....

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Voting Has Started, and Electionland Is on the Case

by Derek Willis Election Day is still a month away, but some Americans are already casting ballots. About 20 states and the District of Columbia have early voting programs, several of which have...

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U.S. Labor Department: States Are Failing Injured Workers

by Michael Grabell This story was co-published with NPR. A U.S. Department of Labor report released today details the bleak fate facing the nation’s injured workers, noting that those hurt on the job...

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Breaking the Black Box: When Algorithms Decide What You Pay

by Julia Angwin , Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu ProPublica Machine Bias Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Episode 1 Facebook Episode 2 Prices Episode 3 Coming Oct. 12 Episode 4...

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Coming Soon From ProPublica and Frontline: ‘Terror in Europe’

by Stephen Engelberg In 2015 and 2016, terrorists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State unleashed a series of deadly attacks in Europe that killed nearly 200 people and injured hundreds more....

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SRSLY: Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day At Blue Apron Facility

by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We’ll distill the...

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New Jersey’s Student Loan Agency Has Started Getting Good Reviews — By Giving...

by Annie Waldman Over the past few years, dozens of borrowers have written devastating reviews of the New Jersey state agency whose student loans, as we have detailed, have strikingly onerous terms....

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Introducing the ProPublica Data Store 2.0

by Celeste LeCompte We work with data a lot at ProPublica. We request it. We create it. We analyze it. We use it to tell stories. We design with it. We teach with it. We share it. And, since 2014,...

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For Mexican Towns Attacked by Cartel, Few Answers and No Justice

by Ginger Thompson and Alejandra Xanic, ProPublica, It was a brazen attack. Some 60 gunmen linked to the brutal Zetas cartel descended on a quiet cluster of towns just south of the Mexican border in...

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How Trump Allegedly Ensured His Golf-Course Employees Were ‘Pretty Enough’

by Robert Faturechi .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has disparaged “flat-chested” women, mocked a...

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The American Way

by Justin Elliott ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Cameron Cottrill, special to ProPublica The American Way President Obama promised to fight corporate concentration. Eight...

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2016 Election Lawsuit Tracker: The New Election Laws and the Suits...

by Sarah Smith New law Law on hold or overturned New law in place, litigation pending New law on hold or overturned, litigation pending Other related litigation Fifteen states will have laws in place...

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Breaking the Black Box: When Machines Learn by Experimenting on Us

by Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., Surya Mattu and Seongtaek Lim, ProPublica ProPublica Machine Bias Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Episode 1 Facebook Episode 2 Prices Episode 3...

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Lawsuit to Seek Rollback of NYPD’s Controversial Nuisance Abatement Efforts

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and the New York Daily News, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. Three tenants are banding together to challenge the New York Police Department’s...

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Maryland’s Move to Pull Children From Group Homes Came Too Late for Teenager...

by Heather Vogell Once again, government actions against a controversial for-profit company’s chain of group homes for the disabled may have come too late to protect a child. ProPublica has learned...

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Stand Up and Be Counted — Maybe

by Jessica Huseman It took Nick Alati half a day to cast a ballot in Arizona’s August primary — and his vote didn’t even count. A self-employed home inspector in suburban Phoenix, Alati had moved...

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After Mayor Pledges ‘Due Process,’ NYPD Renews Aggressive Nuisance Abatement...

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and Sarah Smith, ProPublica, This story was co-published with the New York Daily News. The New York Police Department has continued some of the most controversial...

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Fact-checking Trump and Clinton on the Billionaire’s Tax Break

by Alec MacGillis The only thing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump seemed to agree upon in last Sunday’s debate — indeed, one of the few substantive policy exchanges they had — was the need to...

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Schwarzenegger and DSK: When Powerful Men Cross Lines

by Tracy Weber Editor's note: It was 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was running as the Republican candidate for governor. Tracy Weber, then a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, detailed Schwarzeneggers’s...

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‘Only White People,’ Said the Little Girl

by Topher Sanders This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. Few things are more awesome than listening to kids playing on the playground. There’s magic in that mix of...

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