Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets
Ken Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue ...
How an Alabama Town Staved Off School Resegregation
Black students organized protests and a boycott that cost local white businesses money. Today, many families who could afford ...
Maine’s Health Department Rarely Investigates When Residents Wander Away From Their Care Facilities
Elopement — when a resident wanders out of a care home — is a real risk, particularly for people with dementia. But in the ...
This Mississippi Hospital Transfers Some Patients to Jail to Await Mental Health Treatment
Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto doesn’t have a psychiatric unit, so it sends patients elsewhere for mental health treatment.
Nine Takeaways From Our Investigation Into 3M’s Forever Chemicals
What you need to know about the inside story of how the company allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research ...
Ticketed at School as a Teen, a Young Black Woman Is Suing an Illinois City for Violating Her Civil Rights
It took four years and a jury trial for Amara Harris to beat the ticket that accused her of stealing another girl’s AirPods.
How Residents in a Rural Alabama County Are Confronting the Lasting Harm of Segregation Academies
In Wilcox County, Alabama, many people say they want to bridge racial divides created by their segregated schools. But they ...
Kristi Noem Said She Is Proud to “Support Babies, Moms, and Families.” Her Record Shows Otherwise, Critics Say.
As South Dakota governor, Noem has rejected programs and millions of dollars in federal funds that would have benefited ...
For the Women Who Accused the Trump Campaign of Harassment, It’s Been More Harassment
Trump is well known for publicly bullying his political rivals, but the former president’s campaign has also used similar ...
Texas Appeals Court Orders Dismissal of Lawsuit Against ProPublica, Texas Tribune
An appeals court ruled that MRG Medical filed its lawsuit against the news organizations past the statute of limitations.
After Decades, Voters Finally OK Replacement for Crumbling Idaho School
The vote follows a yearlong investigation by the Idaho Statesman and ProPublica into how the state’s restrictive funding ...
Marshall Allen, a Tenacious Health Care Journalist, Dies at 52
Allen, who spent 10 years of his career reporting for ProPublica, was a fierce advocate for transparency and fairness in ...