Potential Insurance Bill From Hurricane Florence Could Take Toll on Wallets...
by Abrahm Lustgarten and Talia Buford For years, North Carolina has bet against a storm like Hurricane Florence. Even as nationally known insurance companies pulled out of the state’s coastal...
View ArticleHurricane Florence’s Surge Is Expected to Hit Homes That Already Cost the...
by Lisa Song and Al Shaw Though the flooding from Hurricane Florence is predicted to be unprecedented, residents of the coastal North Carolina towns threatened by the storm surge know what it’s like...
View ArticleProPublica Wins Four Online Journalism Awards
by ProPublica ProPublica was honored with four Online Journalism Awards, the most of any news organization, at the Online News Association Conference on Saturday. ProPublica won its fourth Online...
View ArticleBlood-Spatter Expert in Joe Bryan Case Says “My Conclusions Were Wrong”
by Pamela Colloff A hearing to determine whether Joe Bryan should be granted a new trial came to a dramatic conclusion on Monday with a surprise, eleventh-hour admission from the expert witness whose...
View ArticleThe Election DataBot: Now Even Easier
by Derek Willis and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee We launched the Election DataBot in 2016 with the idea that it would help reporters, researchers and concerned citizens more easily find and tell some of the...
View ArticleFacebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men
by Ariana Tobin and Jeremy B. Merrill Hundreds of thousands of Americans drive for Uber. And the company is looking for many more. It runs ads on Facebook that say, for example: “Driving toward...
View ArticleCongress Passes Measure to Protect Board that Monitors Nuclear Safety
by Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican Congress has moved to block an effort to weaken a federal board that oversees worker and public safety at nuclear facilities, adding language to an appropriations...
View ArticleHow We Compared Clinical Trial and Cancer Incidence Data
by Riley Wong Introduction For our story, Black Patients Miss Out On Promising Cancer Drugs, ProPublica compared participant pools for clinical trials of new cancer treatments to the populations most...
View ArticleA Cancer Patient’s Guide to Clinical Trials
by Caroline Chen Clinical trials are a crucial step in getting new treatments to market. Before a drug can be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and released widely, manufacturers are...
View ArticleBlack Patients Miss Out On Promising Cancer Drugs
by Caroline Chen and Riley Wong It’s a promising new drug for multiple myeloma, one of the most savage blood cancers. Called Ninlaro, it can be taken as a pill, sparing patients painful injections or...
View ArticlePrivate Trash Haulers Resist New Safety Measures
by Kiera Feldman On its face, the agenda for the Business Integrity Commission’s public hearing on Monday seemed uncontroversial enough: The agency that oversees New York City’s private garbage...
View ArticleAmid Accusations of Age Bias, IBM Winds Down a Push for Millennial Workers
by Peter Gosselin and Ariana Tobin Faced with a mounting pile of lawsuits accusing it of age discrimination — the latest, a class action, was filed this week in federal district court in New York —...
View ArticleJustice Department Inspector General to Investigate DEA Program Linked to...
by Ginger Thompson The Justice Department’s inspector general announced on Tuesday that his office would investigate a Drug Enforcement Administration program linked to violent drug cartel attacks in...
View ArticleThe Disappeared
by Hannah Dreier The string of text messages that would come to haunt Carlota Moran seemed like just an annoyance at first — an interruption to what was supposed to be a special outing for her and her...
View ArticleVoting in America Is NUTS. Here’s How to Plan Ahead.
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Hi, welcome back! Since last time, you’ve learned how online political advertising gets targeted to you, and you had a peek at ads aimed at other people (or ads that campaigns...
View ArticleSloan Kettering’s Cozy Deal With Start-Up Ignites a New Uproar
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times An artificial intelligence start-up founded by three insiders at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center debuted with great fanfare...
View ArticleNew in Trump Town: Staffer Resumes
by Derek Kravitz, Al Shaw and Claire Perlman See the database.
View ArticleWhat’s in a Resume? A Lot, When It Comes to Trump Staffers
by Derek Kravitz It’s no surprise that hundreds of staffers on 2016 presidential and congressional campaigns parlayed their work into political jobs in the Trump administration. But you wouldn’t...
View ArticleWhat More Can We Learn From Chicago Ticket Data?
by David Eads Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Discover what makes Illinois tick from our team of investigative journalists covering the state. Delivered every Friday. A few weeks ago,...
View ArticleInspector General del Departamento de Justicia investigará un programa de la...
por Ginger Thompson El pasado martes, el inspector general del Departamento de Justicia anunció que su oficina investigaría un programa de la Administración para el Control de las Drogas vinculado con...
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