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Four years after her double lung transplant, 21-year-old Hannah’s body was at war with itself.
“Hurry,” she wrote, unable to speak.
The generic drug she took to prevent organ rejection should have been working. She didn't know the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case. 🧵
“Hurry,” she wrote, unable to speak.
The generic drug she took to prevent organ rejection should have been working. She didn't know the FDA doesn’t always ensure that’s the case. 🧵
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
She Says Doctors Ignored Her Concerns About Her Pregnancy. For Many Black Women, It’s a Familiar Story.
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a B...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth.
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.”
(Published Dec. 2022)
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
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December 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
Published Oct. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social
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December 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
1/ ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom focused on revealing injustices and abuses of power. Our stories are often fueled by tips and evidence from readers like you.
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In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
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December 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found.
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Why I Left the Network
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...
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December 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
(Published Aug. 2024)
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible and their lives miserable.
(Published Aug. 2024)
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
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December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
“People were dying in our backyard,” said Pastor Daniel Simmons of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, whose members helped establish the Samaritan Clinic in 2007.
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 4: The Last Safety Net
As a community hospital, Phoebe’s mission is to care for people no matter their ability to pay. But in a town where the uninsured rate is twice the national average, even some Phoebe employees are una...
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December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“People were dying in our backyard,” said Pastor Daniel Simmons of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, whose members helped establish the Samaritan Clinic in 2007.
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
“It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”
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They called 911 for help.
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)
They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.
Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
They called 911 for help.
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet
Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book.
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
What’s a Pig Butchering Scam? Here’s How to Avoid Falling Victim to One.
Thousands have lost huge sums after being lured into fraudulent online investment schemes by seemingly attractive strangers who strike up online conversations with them. Here’s a guide to spotting the...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A "pig butchering" scam might open with a simple “Hi” or some good-natured confusion about why your phone number seems to be in the person’s address book.
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
It's the first step in a process intended to drain your bank account and ruin your life.
(Published Sept. 2022)
The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
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December 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Trump administration is pushing to expand grazing on public lands while reducing its already low cost, under the false premise that it will fill America’s coffers.
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Wealthy ranchers are profiting — at the expense of taxpayers.
With @highcountrynews.org
Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
Published April with @texastribune.org
Published April with @texastribune.org
A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideologic...
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December 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
Published April with @texastribune.org
Published April with @texastribune.org
The floods kept coming.
He needed to grow a crop that would thrive in water — or to quit.
Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social, Saluki Local Reporting Lab
He needed to grow a crop that would thrive in water — or to quit.
Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social, Saluki Local Reporting Lab
The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit.
One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains f...
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December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The floods kept coming.
He needed to grow a crop that would thrive in water — or to quit.
Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social, Saluki Local Reporting Lab
He needed to grow a crop that would thrive in water — or to quit.
Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social, Saluki Local Reporting Lab
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@erinmayequade.bsky.social calls for stronger laws after our investigation into child abuse in OALC: “Honestly, we should have looked at it before... These victim survivors coming forward and sharing their stories — it would just be wrong to not respond to that.” www.propublica.org/article/minn...
Lawmaker Calls for Stronger Mandatory Reporting Rules Following Our Investigation Into Church Abuse Case
Mandatory reporters in Minnesota can be charged with a misdemeanor if they do not report child abuse to authorities. But violators of the statute are rarely convicted, and fines are often similar to t...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@erinmayequade.bsky.social calls for stronger laws after our investigation into child abuse in OALC: “Honestly, we should have looked at it before... These victim survivors coming forward and sharing their stories — it would just be wrong to not respond to that.” www.propublica.org/article/minn...
One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor.
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor.
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.
(Published Feb.)
North Carolina lawmakers have attempted to transfer control or partial control of at least 29 boards, entities or important executive powers in the past decade that had previously been under control of the governor.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it fina...
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December 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
North Carolina lawmakers have attempted to transfer control or partial control of at least 29 boards, entities or important executive powers in the past decade that had previously been under control of the governor.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money.
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
Nonprofit Explorer Adds Powerful Tools to Help You Research Organizations’ Financials
ProPublica has added the ability to find nonprofit organizations that auditors have flagged as having serious financial or control deficiencies. We also added the ability to search for organizations t...
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December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money.
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
Our Nonprofit Explorer can help you look into that:
When the Trump administration began to root out “illegal” DEI efforts, it opened the door to funding cuts for would-be offenders.
This created a “chilling effect through fear, intimidation and confusion,” said one lawyer.
By @emsimani.bsky.social, design by @zisiga.bsky.social
This created a “chilling effect through fear, intimidation and confusion,” said one lawyer.
By @emsimani.bsky.social, design by @zisiga.bsky.social
Under Trump, More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Forms
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statem...
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December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When the Trump administration began to root out “illegal” DEI efforts, it opened the door to funding cuts for would-be offenders.
This created a “chilling effect through fear, intimidation and confusion,” said one lawyer.
By @emsimani.bsky.social, design by @zisiga.bsky.social
This created a “chilling effect through fear, intimidation and confusion,” said one lawyer.
By @emsimani.bsky.social, design by @zisiga.bsky.social
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"Not only did it seem that city leaders had failed to recognize the magnitude of the crisis until one of their own had died, they had also made those bearing the brunt of the pandemic feel responsible for their own demise."
ProPublica Managing Editor @gingerthompson.bsky.social set out to write a David-vs.-Goliath narrative about Albany, Georgia’s response to COVID-19.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
www.propublica.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Not only did it seem that city leaders had failed to recognize the magnitude of the crisis until one of their own had died, they had also made those bearing the brunt of the pandemic feel responsible for their own demise."
ProPublica Managing Editor @gingerthompson.bsky.social set out to write a David-vs.-Goliath narrative about Albany, Georgia’s response to COVID-19.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
www.propublica.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ProPublica Managing Editor @gingerthompson.bsky.social set out to write a David-vs.-Goliath narrative about Albany, Georgia’s response to COVID-19.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
But she realized there were more enduring questions and challenges facing Albany. They were about race and power.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From the day we began publishing in 2008, ProPublica has pursued a clear mission:
We hope to write stories that are so grounded in verifiable facts, they spur real-world changes in behaviors, policies or laws.
Fuel journalism that makes an impact: https://propub.li/4aX9AP9
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“It comes down to the fact that the FDA is not doing its job,” a retired cardiologist said.
“Everything you are swallowing should be tested — there should be no question about it. You don’t want a bad batch coming to the drugstore.”
“Everything you are swallowing should be tested — there should be no question about it. You don’t want a bad batch coming to the drugstore.”
The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did
Billions of prescriptions for generic drugs are filled in the U.S. annually. The FDA tests only a few dozen of them every year, its own records show, and it has largely dismissed warnings about contam...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“It comes down to the fact that the FDA is not doing its job,” a retired cardiologist said.
“Everything you are swallowing should be tested — there should be no question about it. You don’t want a bad batch coming to the drugstore.”
“Everything you are swallowing should be tested — there should be no question about it. You don’t want a bad batch coming to the drugstore.”