Election Commission Documents Cast Doubt on Trump’s Claims of Voter Fraud
by Jessica Huseman In May of 2017, President Donald Trump established a presidential commission to explore the threat of voter fraud — staffing it with multiple Republicans who had theorized that...
View ArticleTo See How Levees Increase Flooding, We Built Our Own
by Al Shaw, Lisa Song, Katie Campbell and Ranjani Chakraborty
View ArticleFlood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides?
Lisa Song, ProPublica, Patrick Michels, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Al Shaw, ProPublica Just after Christmas 2015, police showed up at the Starling Community Trailer Court...
View ArticleProPublica Hires Reporter Renee Dudley to Cover Technology
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Renee Dudley is joining its staff as a senior reporter covering the central roles that technology, algorithms and social media play in our lives. She...
View ArticleInformes revelan supervisión “laxa,” actividad sexual en centros de acogida...
por Duaa Eldeib, Jodi S. Cohen y Melissa Sanchez Read in English. Poco después de Navidad en 2015, tres niños quedaron sin vigilancia en la sala de televisión de un centro de acogida en Des Plaines...
View ArticleTrabajador acusado de abusar sexualmente a ocho menores de edad en albergue...
por Michael Grabell y Topher Sanders Read in English. Este reportaje incluye detalles gráficos de alegatos de abuso sexual de menores. Un cuidador de jóvenes empleado por Southwest Key fue imputado...
View ArticleUsing the Power of the Crowd to Document Hate
by Rachel Glickhouse Today we’re debuting a documentary with Frontline that chronicles some of our reporting on hate groups over the past year. Reporters A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston have been...
View ArticleFor Charlottesville Authorities, a Painful Post-Mortem on Preparedness
by Ali Winston, special to ProPublica On Aug. 2, 2017, Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer convened a closed meeting of the City Council. The Unite the Right rally was days off, and Signer was...
View ArticleIllinois House Candidate Will Walk for Votes — And Has To
by Mick Dumke Amanda Biela was campaigning door to door in north suburban Glenview one afternoon last week when she stopped to talk with a senior watering his front lawn. “I’m running for 15th...
View ArticleThe Shadow Rulers of the VA
by Isaac Arnsdorf Last February, shortly after Peter O’Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received an email from Bruce Moskowitz with his input on a new mental...
View Article48 Hours in Charlottesville: Fear, Nausea, and a Sad Lack of Surprise
by A.C. Thompson Watch “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville.” I was driving through the lush Virginia countryside along Route 29 last August when I saw it: a long convoy of military vehicles, most of...
View ArticleWhat Do You Know About Public Housing in the U.S.? Help Us Investigate.
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan, and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica Volumes have been written about the broken promise of safe public housing for low-income families living in large urban...
View ArticleProPublica to Expand Local Reporting Network to Focus on State Governments
by ProPublica In an effort to help stanch the decline in aggressive statehouse coverage across the country, ProPublica today announced that it is expanding its Local Reporting Network with a focus on...
View ArticleWe Are Expanding Our Local Reporting Network. Submit Your Best Project Ideas...
by ProPublica Last year, ProPublica introduced our Local Reporting Network to help create vital, investigative journalism in communities where such stories would otherwise not to be done. Now, we’re...
View ArticleTop Official at U.S. Embassy in Israel Is Owed Money From Israel Advocacy Group
by Justin Elliott A top aide to the U.S. ambassador to Israel has financial ties to entities involved in Israel policy or that could have business with the government, according to newly released...
View ArticleBen Carson Declared Mission Accomplished in East St. Louis — Where Public...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — The city’s administrative building was decorated for a festive affair when U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson...
View ArticleHave You Donated or Helped to Collect Birth Tissue?
by Caroline Chen and Adriana Gallardo If you have donated birth tissue, such as your placenta or amniotic fluid, we would like to hear from you. (Note: This does not include private banking for...
View ArticleDemocrats Vow Investigation of VA’s Shadow Rulers After ProPublica Story
by Isaac Arnsdorf Democratic lawmakers said they will investigate how three outsiders have been shaping policy and personnel at the Department of Veterans Affairs. A ProPublica investigation Tuesday...
View ArticleWhat’s the City of Chicago Doing About Its Problem With Duplicate Sticker...
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ The City of Chicago has a message for drivers who received more than one sticker ticket in a single day: Take us to court. Or, if you’re feeling...
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