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She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Idaho’s Coroner System Is “Broken and a Joke.” Here Are 5 Ideas From Coroners on How to Fix It.

The Texas Redistricting Fight Has Been the Testing Ground for the Trump Administration’s Latest Legal Strategy

ProPublica Hires Keri Blakinger and Raquel Rutledge as National Reporters

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

Getting “DOGED”: DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center

How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

How We Tracked Workforce Reductions at Federal Health Agencies

A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

Microsoft Failed to Disclose Key Details About Use of China-Based Engineers in U.S. Defense Work, Record Shows

Lo que presencié mientras fotografiaba las desapariciones y retornos de mis compatriotas

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen

Caitlin Kelly Joins ProPublica as Senior Editor

Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care

ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors

Some States Restrict the Oil Industry From Taking Mineral Owners’ Earnings. Not North Dakota.

Top Democrat on Oversight Committee Demands Trump Administration Account for Wildland Firefighter Vacancies

How One Oregon Activist Is Using a Decades-Old Liberal Policy to Stall Green Energy Projects in Rural Areas

Help ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Report on Education

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.

Governor’s Task Force Calls on New York to Bolster Funding, Oversight of Guardianships

New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues

America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.

A Giant Indian Drugmaker Failed to Fix Safety Breaches. The FDA Let It Off the Hook Again and Again.

ProPublica’s January-April 2025 Impact Report: Spurring Impact in Unprecedented Times

They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped.

ProPublica Names Ashley Hiruko as a Northwest Fellow

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals

“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out

“Una pesadilla americana”: Tres hombres deportados al CECOT y sus familiares relatan el calvario que vivieron durante meses.

“Le vamos a hacer mierda la ventanilla y lo vamos a sacar a rastras”

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map

The Man Running Israel’s Intelligence Operation

Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within

“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration

Are You a Public Housing Resident Behind on Rent? Received an Eviction Notice? Here’s What to Know in Maine.

The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations

A Maine Woman Paid Her Back Rent. Her Record Still Says She Was Evicted.

“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say

The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever.

Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China

Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People

Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation Announces Grant for New ProPublica Live Event Series

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    DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

    Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.

    She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

    Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

    Criminal Justice Rollback

    An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

    Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured that doesn’t change anything.

    Local Reporting Network

    The Texas Redistricting Fight Has Been the Testing Ground for the Trump Administration’s Latest Legal Strategy

    The administration has been testing a strategy of using the courts as leverage to force political outcomes. In Texas, the state’s leaders and conservative activists have been willing, if not eager, collaborators.

    Unattended

    Idaho’s Coroner System Is “Broken and a Joke.” Here Are 5 Ideas From Coroners on How to Fix It.

    Lawmakers have been warned for 70 years that the state’s system of elected coroners is broken, yet major reforms haven’t materialized. An anonymous state survey and interviews by ProPublica reveal what coroners say would help.