August 2020

The Loan Company That Sued Thousands of Low-Income Latinos During the Pandemic

by Kiah Collier, Ren Larson and Perla Trevizo

August 31, 2020, 3:30 pm EDT
How We Found Out How Many Debt Collection Lawsuits Oportun Inc. Filed During the Pandemic

by Ren Larson and Kiah Collier

August 31, 2020, 3:30 pm EDT
Hand-Picked Mentors and Networking: Apply for ProPublica’s 2020 Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA

by ProPublica

August 31, 2020, 10:39 am EDT
Billionaire T. Denny Sanford Was Under Investigation for Child Pornography

by Robert Faturechi and Isaac Arnsdorf

August 28, 2020, 9:08 pm EDT
Trabajadoras temporales luchan contra supuesto acoso sexual y dicen que sufren represalias por hacerlo

por Melissa Sanchez

August 28, 2020, 5:15 pm EDT
He Faced a Criminal Charge for Not Self-Isolating When He Had COVID-19 Symptoms. Prosecutors Just Dropped the Case.

by Tony Briscoe

August 28, 2020, 4:38 pm EDT
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

by Elizabeth Weil

August 28, 2020, 1:30 pm EDT
Temp Workers Fight Back Against Alleged Sexual Harassment and Say They Face Retaliation for Doing So

by Melissa Sanchez

August 28, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Electionland 2020: Nursing Home Voting, Election Guides, Creative Enfranchisement and More

by Rachel Glickhouse

August 27, 2020, 7:30 am EDT
Las empresas empacadoras de carne ignoraron las advertencias durante años, pero ahora dicen que nadie habría podido prepararse para COVID-19

por Michael Grabell y Bernice Yeung

August 27, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Black Diabetics Lose Limbs at Triple the Rate of Others. Here’s How Health Care Leaders Are Starting to Act.

by Lizzie Presser

August 27, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
The Mystery House: How a Suspicious Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Deal Is Connected to California’s Deadliest Fire

by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation

August 26, 2020, 9:00 am EDT
Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic

by Ryan McCarthy and Jack Gillum

August 26, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Alaska’s Attorney General Resigns Hours After We Published “Uncomfortable” Texts He Sent to a Younger Colleague

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

August 25, 2020, 5:53 pm EDT
Alaska’s Attorney General on Unpaid Leave After Sending Hundreds of “Uncomfortable” Texts to a Young Colleague

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

August 25, 2020, 1:30 pm EDT
She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right.

by Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette, and Talia Buford and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica

August 25, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Federal Prosecutors Have Steve Bannon’s Murky Nonprofit in Their Sights

by Yeganeh Torbati

August 24, 2020, 2:00 pm EDT
Black Workers Are More Likely to Be Unemployed but Less Likely to Get Unemployment Benefits

by Ava Kofman and Hannah Fresques

August 24, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Federal Investigation Finds Hospital Violated Patients’ Rights by Profiling, Separating Native Mothers and Newborns

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

August 22, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Electionland 2020: DeJoy Under Fire, Election Administrators, Pandemic Voting and More

by Rachel Glickhouse

August 21, 2020, 7:30 am EDT
For Election Administrators, Death Threats Have Become Part of the Job

by Jessica Huseman

August 21, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
A Closer Look at the Public Art at Chicago Police Stations

by Logan Jaffe

August 21, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Private Border Wall Fundraisers Have Been Arrested on Fraud Charges

by Perla Trevizo, Jeremy Schwartz and Lexi Churchill

August 20, 2020, 7:45 pm EDT
Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of a Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People

by Yeganeh Torbati

August 20, 2020, 3:12 pm EDT
Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19

by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung

August 20, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
What the Post Office Needs to Survive a Pandemic Election

by Jessica Huseman, Maryam Jameel and Ryan McCarthy

August 19, 2020, 12:32 pm EDT
Cellphone Data Shows How Las Vegas Is “Gambling With Lives” Across the Country

by Marshall Allen

August 18, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Near Misses at UNC Chapel Hill’s High-Security Lab Illustrate Risk of Accidents With Coronaviruses

by Alison Young and Jessica Blake for ProPublica

August 17, 2020, 1:56 pm EDT
Here Are Six Accidents UNC Researchers Had With Lab-Created Coronaviruses

by Alison Young and Jessica Blake for ProPublica

August 17, 2020, 1:55 pm EDT
The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse

by Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon

August 17, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Obama and the Beach House Loopholes

by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

August 15, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Burial Site Found on a Property Tied to Obama, Causing Tension With Native Hawaiians

by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

August 15, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say

by Lomi Kriel

August 14, 2020, 1:00 pm EDT
Internal Memo Shows Trump Administration Expects Drastic Drop in Demand for U.S. Visas for Years to Come

by Yeganeh Torbati and Dara Lind

August 14, 2020, 11:22 am EDT
Electionland 2020: USPS Chaos, Election Cybersecurity, August Voting and More

by Rachel Glickhouse

August 14, 2020, 7:30 am EDT
In Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago, Bridges Have Become Barricades

by Mick Dumke

August 14, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
CareOne Nursing Homes Said They Could Safely Take More COVID-19 Patients. But Death Rates Soared.

by Sean Campbell, Hannah Fresques and Benjamin Hardy

August 13, 2020, 1:10 pm EDT
How We Analyzed Data on Nursing Home Outbreaks

by Hannah Fresques and Sean Campbell

August 13, 2020, 1:09 pm EDT
Kamala Harris Reading Guide: The Best Reporting on the Vice Presidential Candidate

by Mollie Simon

August 12, 2020, 11:33 am EDT
This Billionaire Governor Keeps Firing Top Officials When He Has a Crisis

by Ken Ward Jr.

August 12, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
It’s Illegal for Federal Officials to Campaign on the Job. Trump Staffers Keep Doing It Anyway.

by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC

August 12, 2020, 4:00 am EDT
Case Closed: Michigan Judge Removes Grace, Black Teen Jailed for Not Doing Online Schoolwork, From Probation

by Jodi S. Cohen

August 11, 2020, 12:47 pm EDT
Local Officials Say a Nursing Home Dumped Residents to Die at Hospitals

by Joe Sexton and Joaquin Sapien

August 11, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
ICE Is Making Sure Migrant Kids Don’t Have COVID-19 — Then Expelling Them to “Prevent the Spread” of COVID-19

by Dara Lind and Lomi Kriel

August 10, 2020, 2:21 pm EDT
The White House Paid Up to $500 Million Too Much for These Ventilators, Congressional Investigators Say

by Patricia Callahan and Sebastian Rotella

August 7, 2020, 3:40 pm EDT
Electionland 2020: Masks at the Polls, Election Funding, Ex-Felon Enfranchisement and More

by Rachel Glickhouse

August 7, 2020, 7:30 am EDT
¿A dónde se irán todos?

by Abrahm Lustgarten

August 7, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Illinois Has Promised to “Infuse Love” in Its Juvenile Justice System, but What Will Actually Change?

by Duaa Eldeib

August 7, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
The Federal Government Gives Native Students an Inadequate Education, and Gets Away With It

by Alden Woods, Arizona Republic

August 6, 2020, 9:00 am EDT
How Hotel Chains Got a Slice of Government Aid for Small Businesses

by Isaac Arnsdorf

August 6, 2020, 5:00 am EDT

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