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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.

FDA Inspectors Again Find Dangerous Breakdowns at an Indian Factory Supplying Medications to U.S. Consumers

Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.

He Was Accused of Killing His Wife. Idaho’s Coroner System Let Clues Vanish After a Previous Wife’s Death.

Microsoft’s “Digital Escort” Program Could Leave Sensitive Government Info Vulnerable to Espionage. Here’s What to Know.

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

Why Gov. Greg Abbott Won’t Release His Emails With Elon Musk

Some Texas Officials Didn’t Respond to Flood Alerts, Echoing the Tragedies of Hurricane Helene

George Mason Is the Latest University Under Fire From Trump. Its President Fears an “Orchestrated” Campaign.

Anchorage Rebuilds Its Prosecutor’s Office After Our Reporting Revealed Hundreds of Criminal Case Dismissals

Texas Overhauls Anti-Abortion Program That Spent Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars With Little Oversight

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come

Trump’s FEMA Proposals and Feud With Gavin Newsom Could Devastate California’s Disaster Response

ProPublica Hires Chris Alcantara as a Graphics Editor

Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise.

FDA Layoffs Could Compromise Safety of Medications Made at Foreign Factories, Inspectors Say

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.

Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.

Inside Elon Musk’s Stellar Year at the Texas Capitol

These 5 Charts Show How Hotels Became New York’s Response to Homelessness

This Doctor Specializes in Diagnosing Child Abuse. Some of Her Conclusions Have Been Called Into Question.

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.

Connecticut’s New Towing Law Will Help Some, but Not All, Drivers. Here’s What They Told Us.

A Doctor Challenged the Opinion of a Powerful Child Abuse Specialist. Then He Lost His Job.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up

ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Selects Five New Partners for Its 50 State Initiative

Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica”

Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.

“You’re Already Approved”: How One Tennessee Company Sets a Debt Trap

A New Trump Plan Gives DHS and the White House Greater Influence in the Fight Against Organized Crime

How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans

Her Family Needed Housing. They Spent Months in New York Hotels, Left to Fend for Themselves.

Seven Things to Know About ProPublica’s Investigation of the FDA’s Secret Gamble on Generic Drugs

His Kidney Failed. He’ll Never Know if a Transplant Drug From a Banned Factory Was to Blame.

New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs

Federal Judge Deems Trump Administration’s Termination of NIH Grants Illegal

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs

We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market

Federal Monitor Slams NYPD Unit Whose Aggressive Policing ProPublica Exposed

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon

Número récord de policías locales se unen a controversial programa de ICE para ayudar con deportaciones

100 Students in a School Meant for 1,000: Inside Chicago’s Refusal to Deal With Its Nearly Empty Schools

“Demorar, interferir, socavar”

Adriana Pera Joins ProPublica as Engagement and Tips Coordinator

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine:” How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13

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    Unattended

    He Was Accused of Killing His Wife. Idaho’s Coroner System Let Clues Vanish After a Previous Wife’s Death.

    Clayton Strong had a history of domestic unrest in two marriages. The women’s families say a more thorough investigation of Betty Strong’s death in Idaho might have saved the life of his next wife, Shirley Weatherley, in Texas.

    The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE

    ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

    Zero Trust

    A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

    The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.

    Texas Officials Say They Didn’t See the Flood Coming. Oral Histories Show Residents Have Long Warned of Risks.

    After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas.

    Rx Roulette

    FDA Inspectors Again Find Dangerous Breakdowns at an Indian Factory Supplying Medications to U.S. Consumers

    The latest inspection comes 2 1/2 years after the agency allowed Sun Pharma to keep shipping some drugs to Americans even after banning the factory from the U.S. market because of quality problems.