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Without input from parents or students, the Education Department ordered several civil rights investigations on its own — targeting schools with trans athletes, gender-neutral bathrooms and initiatives it sees as discriminatory to white students.

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Trump officials argue that the administration is ensuring children are not abused or trafficked. But current and former agency employees say the Office of Refugee Resettlement is drifting from its humanitarian mandate.

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NEW: ProPublica spent 14 months investigating how the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to Americans. Here are the key takeaways from our reporting.

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📌 On Wednesday, June 25 at 4 p.m. ET, join our reporters for an in-depth discussion about the Trump administration’s moves to ramp up deportations. Submit your questions and RSVP here: propub.li/3GdAdCx

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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

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People in Venice are protesting Jeff Bezos' upcoming gala wedding there, pointing out his history of tax avoidance. As @propublica.org showed in 2021, Bezos has TWICE paid $0 in federal income tax. One year, he claimed & received a $4k tax CREDIT for his kids. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

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How the FDA Let Medications From Banned Foreign Factories Into the U.S. Here's what our investigation found:

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For @propublica.org's new story: "His Kidney Failed. He’ll Never Know if a Transplant Drug From a Banned Factory Was to Blame." ProPublica tested a patient's generic version of Tacrolimus. The results show his medication dissolved way too quickly.

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Joe DeMayo (a Phillies fan!) didn’t know that while his transplanted kidney was failing, the capsules he took could've left him vulnerable. The FDA repeatedly found problems at the plant where those drugs were made, but allowed some medications — including Joe's — to continue flowing to the US.

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Tribal college leaders said they were stunned by the Trump administration's proposed cuts to their already insufficient funding and had more questions than answers. “It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said.

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NEW: ProPublica spent 14 months investigating how the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to Americans. Here are the key takeaways from our reporting.

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NEW: When Joe DeMayo’s donated kidney started to fail earlier than expected, he didn’t know that the drug he was taking could’ve left him vulnerable — and that one of the most formidable drug regulators in the world may have failed to protect him.

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In our investigation, we interviewed more than 200 people, obtained troves of documents and filed suit against the FDA after the agency said it would take years to turn over public records. More on how we conducted our reporting, which spanned more than a year:

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A ProPublica investigation found that over a dozen years, a secretive group at the FDA granted exemptions to at least 22 foreign factories that had violated critical standards in drugmaking.

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“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

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According to federal statistics, 96% of anonymous calls to child abuse hotlines are deemed baseless after an investigation. New York has passed a bill banning these types of anonymous complaints. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign the legislation.

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We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists.

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ProPublica reporters are examining how immigration policies have expanded — from local policing to private deportation logistics. Join our virtual discussion on Wednesday, June 25, at 4 p.m. ET. RSVP and submit questions here: propub.li/3GdAdCx

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Mayor Adams’ connection to this NYPD unit has been so close, former officials said, that he was given private access to a live feed of the unit’s body-worn cameras. He recently chose one of the team’s leaders to be deputy mayor of public safety. By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬

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This is the second time ProPublica has sued the FDA in recent years. Along with @post-gazette.com‬, we filed a lawsuit in 2023 against the agency for withholding records related to the massive recall of breathing machines made by Philips Respironics. The FDA ultimately provided the documents.

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Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

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ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over the course of six years through a state-funded program. At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s. (Published Nov. 2024)

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“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

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BTW, ICE has a long history of sweeping up citizens. The first Trump admin actually *deported* 70 likely citizens. www.propublica.org/article/more...

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People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

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New legislation will require callers to New York state’s child abuse hotline to identify themselves. ProPublica’s reporting in 2023 found that many anonymous callers made false allegations that led to intrusive investigations of families’ lives.

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Read the full story from @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social‬ and @cgaribay.bsky.social‬ 👇 We're continuing to report on Helene’s aftermath. If you would like to share tips with us, please email helenetips@propublica.org.

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Ahead of the start of hurricane season, our reporters spent months investigating how much was lost in the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Listen to one survivor’s firsthand account of loss, devastation and hope that changes are made to protect the future of inland communities like his own.

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The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May 2025) By @annaleighclark.bsky.social‬

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Reminder: Our Nonprofit Explorer lets you browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations. See details like executive compensation, revenue, expenses and more ⤵️

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How is immigration enforcement extending beyond agencies and into everyday systems? 🗓️ On Wednesday, June 25, at 4 p.m. ET, join our journalists as they review their reporting on the government’s aggressive immigration crackdown. RSVP:

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NY bans anonymous child welfare reports thanks, in part, to Eli Hager’s reporting on a Brooklyn mother whose apartment was searched dozens of times — by police and caseworkers who never had a warrant — because an angry former acquaintance kept anonymously calling the hotline about her.

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The new law would maintain the confidentiality of callers to the child abuse hotline, just not their anonymity. That means if someone calls in, they can still be assured that the state will not reveal their identity to the alleged abuser or publicly in any way.

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Read our original investigation (published Nov. 2023):

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NEW: The New York State Legislature passed a bill banning anonymous complaints to the state child abuse hotline. The change comes in the wake of a 2023 ProPublica investigation that showed how the hotline had been weaponized by people endlessly calling in baseless allegations against exes or rivals.

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Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” touched on “topics of depopulation,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.” With @texastribune.org

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“What Vladimir Putin did to Ukraine, that’s an invasion,” Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, explained. “On the other hand, illegal migration, or drug smuggling, or ordinary crime — that’s not an invasion.” By @mtredden.bsky.social‬

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In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory. The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.

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Some insiders have theorized that the White House installed Fugate to oversee a pivot away from traditional counterterrorism and to steer resources toward MAGA-friendly sheriffs and border security projects before eventually shuttering operations. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

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“When I started taking the drug, I’d look at the smooth, cylindrical capsule in my hand and consider the fact I was about to swallow something that costs about the same as a new iPhone. A month’s supply ... is the same price as a new Nissan Versa.” By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social‬

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After the judge deemed the NIH grant terminations illegal, he noted that the government’s practices were discriminatory: “This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. … I would be blind not to call it out.”

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A ProPublica investigation revealed that the FDA did not routinely test the drugs as they were circulating in the U.S. or proactively track whether consumers had been harmed. Here’s how we conducted our reporting, which spanned more than a year.

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In January, Musk downplayed the Starship 7 explosion as “barely a bump in the road" and seemed to brush off safety concerns, posting a video of the flaming debris field with the caption, “Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!” From our May 2025 story:

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For more, here's our 2023 story revealing Davila's discovery and unearthing the identity of the family responsible for the sale:

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As a grad student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people — the largest known slave auction in the U.S. The discovery prompted a small group to spearhead the creation of a historical marker in downtown Charleston. (Published Oct. 2024)

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A few weeks ago, we learned that Harvard will relinquish two of the images. In a "homecoming" for these photographs, they'll be moved to @iaamuseum.bsky.social in South Carolina, the state where the images were taken and where the people they depict lived. (2/2)

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#ICYMI: In 2023, we wrote about some of the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in US history. Commissioned by a Harvard scientist in 1850 to prove a racist belief, Harvard held onto the photos — until one woman sued in 2019 and claimed some of the enslaved people were her ancestors. (1/2)

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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

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The Christian right has become an increasingly powerful force in American politics at every level, from school boards to the presidency. Its roots trace back decades. By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social‬ (Published Oct. 2024)

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The DOGE tool provides a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing AI to guide critical cuts in services. For the full story by @bxroberts.org‬, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social‬ and @ericumansky.bsky.social‬:

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ProPublica obtained records showing how a DOGE software engineer with no health care or government experience created an AI model to identify contracts to kill at the VA. @bxroberts.org‬ takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️

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This Saturday at IRE, I’ll be talking about some of the reporting behind this story and how it was made possible with the help of Yancey County community members. @ire.org #IRE2025

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28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

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We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market. Here's How We Did It:

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The FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to continue sending drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

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If you are a current/former FDA employee or someone in the industry with information about the FDA, the safety of generic drugs, or the manufacturers who make them, we want to hear from you. Contact our reporters on Signal 📲 Megan Rose: 202-805-4865 Debbie Cenziper: 301-222-3133

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Tips are *very* welcome. Are you in Big Law or a Trump-aligned firm? Struggling to recruit pro bono partners to sue the administration? Former or current DOJ/OCR? Leonard Leo? Get in my DMs!

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As coastal areas have become far better at warning and evacuating people about hurricanes, inland communities too often remain ill prepared, with devastating results. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social‬, @cgaribay.bsky.social‬

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NEW: ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.

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The Bukele government harassed and intimidated Salvadoran law enforcement officials who were investigating corruption and assisting a U.S. anti-gang task force, according to interviews. At least eight of them have fled the country with U.S. help.

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Sophia Gaynor was born with spinal muscular atrophy. The Gaynors' charity raised millions to help develop the drug Zolgensma, even as Sophia grew too old to receive the costly treatment. We told their story in February. On June 13, Sophia died at home with her parents at her side. She was 16.

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About 150 Chicago schools sit half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity. The city “doesn’t seem to be having an honest conversation about the challenges it’s facing,” one school finance expert said. With @chalkbeat.org‬

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🚨 ProPublica’s social video team is expanding! We are seeking a temporary social video producer to help translate our long-form journalism into short-form, video-first content for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and our other social platforms. ➡️ Apply here: grnh.se/vsz3513d6us

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Yesterday, about a week after Fotouhi was confirmed as EPA deputy administrator, the EPA asked a court to pause its litigation over asbestos www.propublica.org/article/davi...

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My latest: Why some potentially contaminated drugs are still allowed into the U.S., despite FDA knowledge of issues like filthy labs and falsified records. We dug into the data and identified 70 hospitalizations and nine deaths related to these drugs.

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NEW: A federal judge ruled on Monday that the termination of hundreds of grants by the NIH was “void and illegal." "This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” he said. “I would be blind not to call it out." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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NEW: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of NIH grants was “void and illegal.” He ordered funding for some of the grants, including many profiled by ProPublica in recent months, to be reinstated. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social

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The report found that while the NYPD’s Community Response Team was initially created to focus on so-called quality-of-life issues such as illegal motorbikes, its officers have more recently been “stopping, frisking, and searching unconstitutionally.” By @ericumansky.bsky.social

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Great to see @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @beckyvevea.bsky.social on @wgntv.com to talk about our joint @propublica.org & @chalkbeat.org investigation into Chicago's failure to address its costly tiny schools. wgntv.com/chicago-educ...

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To investigate how and why the FDA allowed risky drugs into the U.S. market, we interviewed more than 200 people, obtained troves of documents and filed suit against the FDA after the agency said it would take years to turn over public records. ⤵️

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NEW: A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

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Metal shavings. Blackish contamination. Dirty water. Some foreign factories were barred from shipping drugs to the U.S. due to potential health risks. Then the FDA gave them a special pass to keep exporting them. New, @propublica.org

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#ICYMI: We've added 23 staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 109. We also revealed the makeup of the DOGE team at the Defense Department, a group made up primarily of tech startup founders.

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UPDATED TODAY: If you're looking to get in touch with us about a specific issue related to the Trump administration, we've got a list of the federal agencies/topics our reporters are covering + their secure contact information 👇

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When asked in 2024 if mass deportations would harm Florida's agricultural industry, a farmer-legislator confidently said Trump wouldn't actually engage in an indiscriminate mass deportation program. Even if that did happen, he said, there will always be a supply of H-2A workers. (Pub. Oct. 2024)

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“The federal government used to prioritize domestic terrorism, and now it’s like domestic terrorism just went away overnight,” Michigan AG Dana Nessel said. “I don’t think that we’re going to get much in the way of cooperation anymore.” (Published May 2025)

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When we reviewed the 1,450+ NIH grants terminated by the Trump administration, we found that: • More than 550 were focused on health disparities or inequities • More than 300 were focused on LGBTQ+ health care Full story 👇

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After ruling the NIH grant terminations illegal, Judge Young ended the hearing with an eye-opening speech. “This represents racial discrimination, and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so.”

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In a swift response to this morning's hearing, District Court Judge William G. Young has just ruled that the directives that led to 100s of grant terminations at the NIH are arbitrary and capricious. The directives + subsequent terminations are illegal, he said. "They are of no force and effect."

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Trump claims he's shifting his deportation raids away from farm workers, an admission of how reliant US agriculture is on underpaid migrant laborers. And they're not just underpaid. This work can be deadly -- and those deaths all too often go uninvestigated:

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Yes! Please email us at local.reporting@propublica.org for more info about what we're looking for from photographers.

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8/ We look forward to your application! ⏰ The deadline to apply is July 21, 5 p.m. ET.

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7/ We’re excited to continue to serve local communities by partnering on investigative journalism. Please email us at local.reporting@propublica.org and check out our FAQs:

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6/ In Tennessee, we collaborated with @tennesseelookout.com‬ to show how one company has vastly expanded the use of a unique high-interest loan — and then gone on to sue more than 100,000 borrowers.

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5/ Our reporting with @ctmirror.org‬ on car towing in the state sparked legislative reforms to overhaul century-old towing laws that favored tow companies at the expense of drivers.

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4/ Since the Local Reporting Network’s 2018 launch, we’ve partnered with more than 80 newsrooms to produce journalism that has won awards and created real-world impact. Here are just a few recent examples of our work ⤵️

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3/ Last year, we also launched our 50 State Initiative, our commitment to working with one newsroom in every state by the end of 2029. Newsrooms in 35 states (in blue) are currently eligible to apply. We're already selected newsrooms from 15 states: propub.li/3ZVLAGb

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2/ The opportunity: Spend a year working on a project in partnership with ProPublica and your local newsroom. We’ll provide up to $75K of salary coverage plus a benefits allowance. You’ll have guidance from a senior editor and our specialty reporting teams.

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🚨 ATTN local journos: We're seeking reporters in five newsrooms — in five different states — to join our Local Reporting Network. Launched in 2018, our program aims to help create vital, investigative journalism in communities where such stories might otherwise not be done: propub.li/4jXgfKi 🧵👇

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What the lawsuits challenging the NIH grant terminations have shown is just how involved DOGE was. As we previously revealed, DOGE provided lists of grants to terminate, as well as letter templates and boilerplate language. A big issue in the hearing today. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Tennessee lawmakers from both parties have voiced dissatisfaction with the state's school threats law, citing the harm done to children who did not pose real danger. “I’m still struggling through the unintended consequences,” said Sen. Kerry Roberts. By @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social‬

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Thrilled that @lastweektonight.com featured our @propublica.org reporting on Grace as part of a segment on juvenile justice. You can read the entire series about Grace and Michigan’s failures here: www.propublica.org/series/grace

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Happening this morning: A key hearing in the cases challenging the NIH grant terminations. Plaintiffs, including multiple state AGs + researchers, are requesting an injunction to reverse the terminations. Our reporting has tracked what's at stake: projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

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Watch @abc15.com's series "Seeking Death," based on our joint investigation into Maricopa County's handling of death penalty cases:

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Maricopa County’s and Arizona’s handling of the death penalty have been questioned for years. A 2016 report cited the county as one place with a history of “overzealous prosecutors, inadequate defense and a pattern of racial bias and exclusion.” With @abc15.com‬

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NEW from me: A few months after I detailed how a secretive NYPD unit close to Eric Adams has been ridden w/ abuses…. a court-appointed monitor has found the same, like widespread, unreported unconstitutional stop & frisks. 97% targeted Black and Hispanic men www.propublica.org/article/nyc-...

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NEW: A court-appointed federal monitor has found that an NYPD unit championed by Mayor Eric Adams has been unjustly stopping and searching New Yorkers, almost all of them Black and Hispanic men, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation. By @ericumansky.bsky.social‬

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@lastweektonight.com also cited the July 2020 story by @jodiscohen.bsky.social on Grace, the Michigan teen who was sent to juvenile detention for failing to do her schoolwork: www.propublica.org/article/a-te...

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You can read the whole "Juvenile Injustice, Tennessee" series from ProPublica and @wpln.bsky.social here: www.propublica.org/series/juven...