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Have You Had Difficulty Paying For or Accessing Prescription Drugs? We Want to Hear From You.
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A Drug Quintupled in Price. Now, Drug Industry Players Are Feuding Over the Windfall.
Amid public concern over spiking drug prices, a powerful middleman is suing a tiny drugmaker over unpaid rebates and fees. The maker calls the suit baseless; analysts say the suit offers a window into an opaque world.
A Few Things Got Left Out of The Daily Caller’s Report on Confederate Monument Rally
A reporter for the conservative news site neglected to mention he’d given a speech in front of protesters in support of white nationalism.
Doctor’s Records in U.S. Doping Investigation Don’t Match Patients’ Copies
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Announcing ProPublica’s 12 Diversity Scholarship Recipients
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Kafka in Vegas
Fred Steese served more than 20 years in prison for the murder of a Vegas showman even though evidence in the prosecution’s files proved he didn’t do it. But when the truth came to light, he was offered a confounding deal known as an Alford plea. If he took it he could go free, but he’d remain a con
Vegas Judge Had Long History of Prosecutorial Misconduct
The behavior of Bill Kephart, who led the murder prosecution of Fred Steese, was repeatedly lambasted by the Supreme Court of Nevada. But that didn’t stop him from becoming a judge. This month he was charged with misconduct in that position too.
Prosecutors Race to Keep Notorious Angel-of-Death Behind Bars
Texas is scheduled to release Genene Jones, a former nurse and suspected serial killer of children, early next year. Today, prosecutors in San Antonio moved to prevent her release, bringing a new murder charge against Jones in connection with the death of a child 35 years ago.
Three Strategies to Defend GOP Health Bill: Euphemisms, False Statements and Deleted Comments
Since the passage of the American Health Care Act, Republican members of Congress have tried to swing public opinion to their side. ProPublica has been tracking what they’re saying.
In a Lonely Corner of Coney Island, a Fight Over Care for the Vulnerable
Life at Oceanview Manor Home for Adults is at the center of the latest court battle involving the New York State Department of Health.
Trump Administration Says It Isn’t Anti-Science As It Seeks to Slash EPA Science Office
The Office of Research and Development has been at frontlines of virtually every environmental crisis. Trump wants to cut its funding in half.
Trump’s Immigration Pick Attacked Obama Programs in Ghost-Written Senate Letters
If letters written by Lee Francis Cissna, the president’s nominee to head U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are any guide, he’s poised to dismantle Obama-era policies like a humanitarian program for Central American children.
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Nuisance Abatement
How New York City police are using little-known laws to kick people out of their homes, even if they haven’t been charged with a crime.
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New York City Set to Pass Sweeping Nuisance Abatement Reforms
Wasted Medicine
Tracking your squandered health care dollars
Hospitals are throwing away perfectly good supplies. Nursing homes are flushing unused and unexpired medicine down the toilet. Billions of dollars are routinely wasted every day by health care providers in the United States — and it’s driving up the cost of care for all of us.
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Immigration
Trump’s Immigration Pick Attacked Obama Programs in Ghost-Written Senate Letters
If letters written by Lee Francis Cissna, the president’s nominee to head U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are any guide, he’s poised to dismantle Obama-era policies like a humanitarian program for Central American children.
Documenting Hate
A Few Things Got Left Out of The Daily Caller’s Report on Confederate Monument Rally
A reporter for the conservative news site neglected to mention he’d given a speech in front of protesters in support of white nationalism.
Machine Bias
Algorithmic injustice and the formulas that increasingly influence our lives.
California to Investigate Racial Discrimination in Auto Insurance Premiums
The state’s insurance department is following up on our findings that eight auto insurers charge more in minority neighborhoods than in other neighborhoods with similar risk.
The Rent Racket
How landlords sidestep tenant protections in New York City.
ProPublica is exploring New York City’s broken rent stabilization system, the tax breaks that underpin it, the regulators who look the other way and the tenants who suffer as a result.
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It’s Legal: Some New York Landlords Can Take Tax Breaks Then Raise Rents Without Limit
Reliving Agent Orange
ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot are exploring the effects of the chemical mixture Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans and their families, as well as their fight for benefits.
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Hell and High Water
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. It’s home to the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex, where billions of gallons of oil and dangerous chemicals are stored. And it’s a sitting duck for the next big hurricane. Why isn’t Texas ready?
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Busted
Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?
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Texas Panel on Wrongful Convictions Calls for Ending Use of Unverified Drug Field Tests
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How politics and government really work, and why they don’t.
Our series seeks to show how politics and government really work, and why they don’t.
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