Corrections

Correction, Correction, Dec. 15, 2025: This story originally misstated whether some of the men deported to CECOT entered the U.S. legally. While nearly half of them were deported in the middle of their immigration cases, it is unknown how they entered the country. The video with this story also originally misquoted White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson. She said, “America is safer with them out of our country,” not “America is safer without them.”

Correction, Nov. 24, 2025: In discussing whether victims of crime register for the Louisiana Victim Outreach Program, this story originally mistakenly said that many victims are aware of the program. Many of them are unaware of it.

Correction, Nov. 3, 2025: This story originally misstated Ann Morris’ age. She is 59, not 61.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.”

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Correction, May 8, 2025: This story originally misidentified two federal agencies. They are the Institute of Museum and Library Services, not the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., not the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Correction, Jan. 30, 2025: This story originally misspelled a voter’s surname on a subsequent reference. She is Elizabeth MacDonald, not McDonald.

Correction, Jan. 30, 2025: This story inaccurately described the effort Tina Stevens spent 1,000 hours on. It took her that long to update her products on Odyssey’s online marketplace, not to build a separate website required by Odyssey.

This story has also been updated to include additional comment from Odyssey.

Correction, Jan. 23, 2025: A photo caption with this story originally misidentified a dam. It is the Detroit Dam on the North Santiam River, not the Lookout Point Dam on the Middle Fork of the Willamette River.

Correction, Jan. 23, 2025: This story originally included a photograph whose caption misidentified a dam. It was an image of the Detroit Dam, not the Lookout Point Dam.

Correction, Jan. 22, 2025: This story originally misidentified the owner of an industrial plant near Sulphur, Louisiana. That plant is owned by Phillips 66, which was spun off from ConocoPhillips; it is not owned by ConocoPhillips.

Correction, Dec. 29, 2024: This story originally misstated the name of Dr. Steven Pham’s fellowship. It is child abuse pediatrics, not childhood pediatrics.

Correction, Dec. 24, 2024: This story originally misidentified the member of Congress for whom Scott Turner interned. It was Rep. Duncan L. Hunter, not his son, Rep. Duncan D. Hunter.

Correction, Nov. 13, 2024: This story originally misstated a logging project’s impact on endangered marbled murrelet chicks. It could kill or harm an estimated 13 of them; it isn’t definitively known that it will kill them.

Correction, Nov. 2, 2024: This story originally misstated the direction that Del Rio is from San Antonio. It is west, not south.

Correction, Oct. 31, 2024: This story originally misstated the profession of a representative for Richard Uihlein. The representative was a spokesperson, not a lawyer.

Correction, Oct. 21, 2024: This story originally misstated the length of Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto. It was 74 pages, not 239.

Correction, Oct. 11, 2024: This story originally misstated when the federal COVID-19 emergency declaration ended. It was in May 2023, not April of that year. Federal protections prohibiting states from culling their Medicaid rolls were lifted on April 1, 2023, under a law passed by Congress.

Correction, Sept. 23, 2024: This story originally misstated the outcome of libel and defamation suits against ProPublica. We have not lost or paid any money to plaintiffs, not defendants.

Correction, Aug. 6, 2024: This story originally mischaracterized which elected officials may view detailed job numbers related to a Washington tax break. Beyond the governor and chairpersons of the House Finance and Senate Ways and Means committees, the list includes the chairpersons of certain other legislative committees and the attorney general. The article has also been updated to clarify which state law establishes this list.

Correction, July 31, 2024: This story originally misidentified the hometown of state Sen. Matt Boehnke. He is from Kennewick, not Richland.

Correction, July 30, 2024: This story originally misstated the name of the executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation. It is Adam Kraut, not Andrew Kraut.

Correction, July 22, 2024: This story originally misstated the name of the international organization that has long promoted breastfeeding. It is the World Health Organization, not the World Trade Organization, or WTO.

Correction, June 27, 2024: This story originally misstated the amount Nestle paid to extract groundwater from Michigan from 2016 to 2018. After the story published, the current bottler and the state provided details about a second fee that brought the total for each site to just under $800 per year, not $200.

Correction, June 7, 2024: This story originally misstated where water from the city of Evart, in Osceola County, ends up after being purchased by BlueTriton Brands. It is used for its Ice Mountain brand, not Pure Life.

Correction, June 4, 2024: This story originally mischaracterized several aspects of Jessica Denson’s legal fight with the Trump campaign. Denson claims that a supervisor tried to obtain her laptop while she was traveling. She did not claim that he hacked into her laptop while she was traveling. The raise she was given in a new job was $3,500 a month, not $3,000. And a decision to overturn a judgment against Denson was made by an appeals court, not a judge.

Correction, April 10, 2024: Based on information provided by a Walmart spokesperson, this story originally stated incorrectly that Walmart attended a two-day summit between DHS and top retailers to address gift card fraud. Walmart subsequently said it did not attend the November meeting. Walmart is participating in Project Red Hook.

Correction, March 22, 2024: This story originally misstated what political entity a leader of the 14K triad was said to be an important member of. The Treasury Department alleges that he is prominent in a subentity of the Chinese Communist Party called the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, not in the larger party.

Correction, March 19, 2024: The story overstated the number of children South Dakota allows in unlicensed day cares. The state allows up to 12 children in such day cares, not 13.

Correction, March 5, 2024: This story originally gave an incorrect title for Dr. Amanda Johnson. She is the acting deputy chief officer, not the acting head, of the VA’s Office of Women’s Health.

Correction, Feb. 16, 2024: This story originally misstated the relative whom Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said he was raising “as a son.” It was his grandnephew, not his nephew.

Correction, Feb. 6, 2024: This story originally misstated the employment status of two supervisors. At the time of a plea, they were former, not current, employees of Tetra Tech EC Inc.

Correction, Jan. 26, 2024: This story previously misstated the number of funerary items still held by the American Museum of Natural History. It is more than 4,060, not more than 7,200.