The long, complicated, contentious fight over housing discrimination in New York’s Westchester County moved a step forward this week. But it’s far from over.

In the face of claims that the National Security Agency’s data collection program had prevented terrorist plots, ProPublica’s Sebastian Rotella took a closer look at one of those: David Coleman Headley’s foiled plan to attack a Danish newspaper.

What journalism can learn from games aimed for positive social impact.

From subpoenas to secret court orders, the government has an arsenal of legal tools for sweeping up your personal data.

The early debate around a key provision wasn’t about anything like mass collection of phone records.

Former Bank of America employees gave sworn statements that the bank lied to homeowners, denied loan modifications for bogus reasons and rewarded employees for sending homeowners to foreclosure.

Is your unpaid summer internship illegal? A breakdown of the laws on working for free.

When his father dies just months after his mother, a reporter searches for answers and discovers the "widowhood effect."

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will be deposed by the lawyer for a man who has accused Hynes of running an office where misconduct is condoned, even rewarded. Hynes, who has denied the allegation, had sought to avoid answering questions under oath, but a federal judge ruled that he must.

The Guantanamo Bay trials of alleged terrorists, restarted by President Obama in 2011, have been marked by secrecy, snafus, and endless delays. ProPublica’s Cora Currier at Gitmo this week for one such case.