Help Us Identify the Officials Helping Trump Roll Back Regulations
by Robert Faturechi, Al Shaw, Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times, In February, President Trump ordered federal agencies to form task forces charged with finding...
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by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times, This story was co-published with The New York Times. President Trump entered office pledging to cut red tape, and within weeks,...
View ArticleTrump’s Russia Lawyer Isn’t Seeking Security Clearance, And May Have Trouble...
by Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger The ongoing investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involve reams of classified material. Yet Marc Kasowitz, the New York...
View ArticleWhat We Know — And Don’t Know — About Hate Crimes in America
by Rachel Glickhouse “Go home. We need Americans here!” white supremacist Jeremy Joseph Christian yelled at two black women — one wearing a hijab — on a train in Portland, Oregon, in May. According to...
View Article‘Extreme’ Use of Painkillers and Doctor Shopping Plague Medicare, New Report...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog. In Washington, D.C., a Medicare beneficiary filled prescriptions for 2,330 pills of oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine in a...
View ArticleTrump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back ,...
by Justin Elliott This story has been updated with a response from a spokesman for Marc Kasowitz. Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney on the Russia case, threatened a stranger in a...
View ArticleWhat Robert Mueller Learned From Enron
by Jesse Eisinger This story was co-published with The New York Times. It seems safe to assume that nobody read Donald Trump Jr.’s damning emails with a Kremlin-connected lawyer more closely than...
View ArticleThe Breakthrough: How an ICIJ Reporter Dug Up the World Bank’s Best Kept Secret
by Jessica Huseman .player_box, div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed { display: none; } ICIJ reporter Sasha Chavkin had been investigating the World Bank for months when he visited a sweltering...
View ArticleHouston Police End Use of Drug Tests That Helped Produce Wrongful Convictions
by Ryan Gabrielson The Houston Police Department has ended its longstanding practice of using $2 chemical kits to make drugs arrests, a policy that had contributed to hundreds of wrongful convictions...
View ArticleWho Is the Russian Lobbyist Who Met With Donald Trump Jr.?
by Isaac Arnsdorf When Donald Trump Jr., his brother-in-law and his father’s campaign chairman sat down with a Russian lawyer last June expecting to receive incriminating information about Hillary...
View ArticleLost Mothers
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, Emma Cillekens and Alessandra Freitas, special to ProPublica ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Lost Mothers An estimated 700 to 900 women in the...
View ArticleCook County Assessor Faces Questions About Property Tax Inequity
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica/Chicago Tribune, This story was co-published with the Chicago Tribune. This story was produced by ProPublica Illinois. Learn more. With questions swirling around his record...
View ArticleThe Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
by Marshall Allen This story was co-published with NPR’s Shots blog. The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated...
View ArticleWe Found New Details About the New Trump-Branded Hotels. Now We Want Your...
by Derek Kravitz, Al Shaw and Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, and Matt Drange, Forbes We’re recruiting local reporters and civically engaged citizens. We have a few ideas on how you can find these...
View ArticleHotelier-in-Chief: Here Are the Trumps’ New Hotels
by Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, Alan Huffman, special to ProPublica, and Matt Drange, Forbes, This story was co-published with Forbes. Last August, Mississippi’s governor introduced a local hotel...
View ArticleAdvocacy Groups Say Senators Should Have One Word for Trump Immigration Pick:...
by Marcelo Rochabrun As President Trump’s pick to lead the agency that approves immigration petitions heads towards likely confirmation, more than 300 advocacy organizations are urging the Senate to...
View ArticleThe Immigration Effect
by Lena Groeger There’s a way for President Trump to boost the economy by 4 percent, but he probably won’t like it.
View ArticleToxic Fires
by Hilary Fung , Lena Groeger and Abrahm Lustgarten Across the Country, Military Sites Burn Hazardous Waste Into Open Air
View ArticleOpen Burns, Ill Winds
by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Bombs in Our Backyard Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Open Burns, Ill Winds The Pentagon’s handling of munitions and their waste has poisoned millions...
View ArticleOne Year, One Facility, 1.7 Million Pounds of Hazardous Waste Burned in Open Air
by Lylla Younes and Abrahm Lustgarten Explore every shipment of hazardous waste sent to Colfax in 2015 and was burned or detonated into open air.
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