A Year Before Trump’s Crime Rhetoric, Dallas Voted to Increase Police. The City Is Wrestling With the Consequences.

Correction, Oct. 16, 2025: This story originally misstated the location of Monty Bennett’s hotel company, Ashford Inc. The company is headquartered in Farmers Branch, Texas, not Dallas.

Before Tom Dundon Agreed to Buy the Portland Trail Blazers, Oregon Accused the Company He Created of Predatory Lending

Correction, Oct. 14, 2025: The highlight box summarizing this story originally misspelled the name of Oregon’s governor. It is Tina Kotek, not Koteek.

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

Correction, Oct. 6, 2025: This story originally misstated when Mark Hall visited one of Charles Sowell's clients and when Sowell and Hall flew to visit the Houston offices of Industrial Tent Systems. It was in August, not last month.

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

Correction, Sept. 27, 2025: A video with this story originally misidentified the subject Brian Hill teaches. Hill teaches high school math, not history.

This Family Will Return Home After Helene. Their Onerous Journey to Rebuild Shows Why Many Others Won’t.

Correction, Sept. 27, 2025: A video with this story originally misidentified the subject Brian Hill teaches. Hill teaches high school math, not history.

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

Correction, Aug. 1, 2025: This story originally misstated the district that Alaska Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel represents. She represents part of Anchorage, not Fairbanks.

Correction, Aug. 14, 2025: This story originally misstated the extent of state budget cuts due to a veto by Gov. Mike Dunleavy. The budget includes enough money to pay for the state share of the top three maintenance projects; in addition, the state education department said another fund could pay for two of the 17 construction projects requested by school districts, including a wastewater system for a new school in the village of Mertarvik. It is not the case that the cuts didn’t leave enough money for the top three maintenance projects or any of the 17 construction projects, including the wastewater system in Mertarvik.

The Drying Planet

Correction, July 25, 2025: This story originally included a quote from Jay Famiglietti characterizing Arizona’s water supply as facing total depletion by the end of the century. Famiglietti communicated a correction to that assertion to ProPublica, which failed to incorporate it before the story was published. The quote has been adjusted to reflect Famiglietti’s view that Arizona’s water supply will be diminished but may not disappear.

Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.

Correction, July 21, 2025: This story originally misstated the death toll in the Kerr County area. The flood killed more than 100 people there, not more than 130.

FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say

Correction, July 8, 2025: This story originally misstated the year that Janet Woodcock retired from the Food and Drug Administration. It was 2024, not 2004.

This Doctor Specializes in Diagnosing Child Abuse. Some of Her Conclusions Have Been Called Into Question.

Correction, Aug. 13, 2025: This story originally misstated who took a 4-month-old Wisconsin boy to the hospital and where he died. His father drove him to the hospital and the boy was then airlifted to another hospital, where he died; he was not driven by his parents to a hospital where he later died. The story also referred imprecisely to a judge’s determination in the case. Dr. Nancy Harper testified in a hearing, but the judge didn’t rule on whether there was abuse. It was not a case where Harper “concluded there was abuse but courts or juries determined otherwise.”

“You’re Already Approved”: How One Tennessee Company Sets a Debt Trap

Correction, June 27, 2025: A call for tips at the top of this story originally misstated the extent of the connection between two companies. It is not clear if Harpeth Financial owns Action 247. The nature of the ownership of Action 247, which shares executives and addresses with Advance Financial, is not made public in Tennessee public documents, and leadership in all three entities refused to answer questions about who in fact owns the sportsbook.

Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety. Deaths Have Quadrupled.

Correction, June 11, 2025: This story originally misidentified Tacoma as belonging to the same Washington state county as Seattle. Seattle and Tacoma are in different counties.

Trump Administration Moves to Block the U.S. Travel of Mexican Politicians Who It Says Are Linked to the Drug Trade

Correction, May 16, 2025: This story originally misstated how much time elapsed between Genaro García Luna’s indictment and his conviction. They were five years apart, not three.

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”

Correction, April 14, 2025: This story originally misspelled the name of the material used in some breast implants. It is silicone, not silicon.

No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

Correction, April 8, 2025: This story originally incorrectly identified William Jennings Bryan as a Kansan politician. He represented Nebraska.

Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.

Correction, March 19, 2025: This story originally incorrectly referred to an agency that provided statements to ProPublica. It was Customs and Border Protection, not Border Patrol.

This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

Correction, March 6, 2025: This story originally incorrectly referred to the school district where Duncan Klussmann had been a superintendent. He worked for the Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston, not a district in Spring Branch, Texas.

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign

Correction, Feb. 28, 2025: This story originally incorrectly said Steve Berger and Dan Bishop did respond to requests for comment. They did not respond.

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion

Correction, Feb. 21, 2025: This story originally misspelled the name of the sister of cryptocurrency executive Brian Armstrong. She is Kathryn Armstrong Loving, not Katherine.