Marines Open Investigation into Active-Duty White Supremacist
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Ali Winston, special to ProPublica The U.S. Marine Corps said it has opened a criminal investigation into the activities of Lance Corporal Vasillios Pistolis, 19,...
View ArticleTreated Like Trash
by Kiera Feldman, Voice of America, special to ProPublica The body of the young man lay in the middle of Jerome Avenue beneath the elevated train tracks, the scene lit by the neon blue sign above the...
View ArticleGet an Inside Look at the Department of Defense’s Struggle to Fix Pollution...
by Abrahm Lustgarten For much of the past two years I’ve been digging into a vast, $70 billion environmental cleanup program run by the U.S. Department of Defense that tracks tens of thousands of...
View Article“The Making of a Massacre” Brings the Drug War Close
by Ginger Thompson This week, ProPublica and Audible are launching an audio documentary called “The Making of a Massacre.” It’s the story of a vicious attack on a small Mexican ranching town called...
View ArticleBefore the Blankenship-McConnell Feud, the Senator Aided the Mining Executive
by Alec MacGillis As the race for the West Virginia Republican Senate nomination hurtles toward Tuesday’s primary, candidate Don Blankenship, the former coal executive sentenced to a year in federal...
View ArticleScenes From a Black Site
by Daniel DeFraia, special to ProPublica Recently declassified CIA documents provide the first detailed look at the interrogation in Thailand of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the al-Qaida prisoner whose...
View ArticleA Prisoner in Gina Haspel’s Black Site
by Tim Golden and Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, and Daniel DeFraia, special to ProPublica He was a small man, one interrogator recalled, and so thin that he would slip in his restraints when the...
View ArticleTalk to Us About Los Alamos National Laboratory — and Other National Labs...
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican, and Beena Raghavendran ProPublica and The Santa Fe New Mexican are investigating health and safety conditions at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the...
View ArticleTrump Vowed to Punish Companies That Moved Jobs Overseas. Is Congress...
by Michael Grabell Two weeks before the presidential election, Donald Trump flew into a faded textile town in North Carolina and riled up the crowd over one of his campaign’s signature promises:...
View ArticleTwo Leading Bidders for Lucrative Los Alamos Lab Contract Have Checkered...
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican In the coming weeks, the U.S. Department of Energy will select a new team to run Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the atomic bomb and one of...
View ArticleConnecticut Set to End “Dual Arrests” in Domestic Violence Cases
by Sarah Smith, special to ProPublica The Connecticut Legislature has sent a bill to the governor’s desk that seeks to end having victims of domestic violence arrested along with their abusers because...
View ArticleHaspel, Spies and Videotapes
by Tim Golden In November 2005, the CIA’s chief of undercover operations, Jose Rodriguez, turned to his closest aide for help in a crisis. Congress was threatening an investigation into the agency’s...
View ArticleChicago Begins To Rethink How Bankruptcy Lawyers Get Paid
by Melissa Sanchez Twice in the past three years, Kimberly Williams-Hayes has filed for bankruptcy. The first time, she made about $5,400 in total payments toward her debt before her case was...
View ArticleProPublica, WMFE and Orlando Public Library to Host Forum on PTSD in First...
by ProPublica The Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, laid bare an issue first responders have been dealing with for decades: how responding to horrific incidents can lead to post-traumatic...
View ArticleRussian Oligarch-Linked Firm That Paid Michael Cohen Was Also Represented by...
by Justin Elliott The news on Tuesday that the same shell company that Michael Cohen, a longtime personal lawyer for Donald Trump, had used to pay $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels had also...
View ArticleCovering the Midterms With Electionland 2018
by Scott Klein and Jessica Huseman In the run-up to the 2016 election, ProPublica organized a project called Electionland to cover voting, nationally and in real time. Along with a coalition of news...
View ArticleCongress Aims to Force Pentagon Reform on Open Burning of Munitions
by Abrahm Lustgarten The next round of Department of Defense funding will come with an important requirement: Congress wants the Pentagon’s outmoded and highly toxic practice of burning old munitions...
View ArticleWhere Did Trump’s Cash Come From? — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast Extra
by Eric Umansky Last week, the Washington Post had an intriguing story: In the nine years before now-President Donald Trump announced his candidacy, his company paid $400 million in cash to buy a...
View ArticleTakeaways From Our Urbana-Champaign Free Street Theater Journalism Workshop
by Natalie Escobar Last weekend, we took our partnership with Free Street Theater and Illinois Humanities on the road, hosting theater-journalism workshops in Urbana-Champaign and Carbondale. As we...
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