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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes

by Paul Kiel,

An Open Letter to Elon Musk

by Stephen Engelberg,

Donald Trump Controls a Publicly Traded Company. Now He Will Pick Its Regulator.

by Justin Elliott, Robert Faturechi and Alex Mierjeski,

Sign Up to Screen Our New Documentary About Stillbirths

by Nadia Sussman, Duaa Eldeib, Liz Moughon and Lisa Riordan Seville,

How to Reduce Formaldehyde Exposure in Your Home

by Topher Sanders,

How Much Formaldehyde Is in Your Car, Your Kitchen or Your Furniture? Here’s What Our Testing Found.

by Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw,

“Eat What You Kill”

by J. David McSwane,

A Tribal Lender Charging 800% APR Has Agreed to Stop Operating in Minnesota

by Megan O’Matz and Joel Jacobs,

Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.

by Jeremy Kohler,

If Trump Makes Cuts to Medicaid, Texas Officials Could Seize the Opportunity to Further Slash the Program

by Lomi Kriel and Jessica Priest,

Check the Formaldehyde Cancer Risk in Your Neighborhood

by Al Shaw and Sharon Lerner,

Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant. Little Is Being Done to Curb the Risk.

by Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw,

A Timeline of Failed Efforts to Reform Idaho’s Coroner System

by Audrey Dutton,

For Decades, Calls for Reform to Idaho’s Troubled Coroner System Have Gone Unanswered

by Audrey Dutton,

Maine Proposes Major Staffing Increases for Assisted Living and Residential Care Facilities

Rose Lundy, The Maine Monitor,

Landlords Evicted Maui Residents and Housed Wildfire Survivors for More Money. FEMA Didn’t Take Basic Steps to Stop It.

by Nick Grube, Honolulu Civil Beat,

ProPublica Hires Three Veteran Journalists to Join DC bureau

by ProPublica,

How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress

by Molly Redden,

Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters

by Melissa Sanchez and Mica Rosenberg,

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.

by Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana,

Illinois’ AG Said It’s Illegal for Schools to Use Police to Ticket Students. But His Office Told Only One District.

by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards,

Jesse Coburn Joins ProPublica as National Reporter

ProPublica,

Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s

by Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon,

How Lincare Cashed In on the Disastrous Recall of Philips Breathing Machines — at the Expense of Patients

by Peter Elkind,

Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back.

by Nicole Santa Cruz, Asia Fields and Ruth Talbot,

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

by Amy Yurkanin,

In Five Years, Chicago Has Barely Made Progress on Its Court-Ordered Police Reforms. Here’s Why.

by Heather Cherone, WTTW News, and Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, photography by Sarahbeth Maney, ProPublica,

Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women

by Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Ziva Branstetter,

Finding Focus: How a Visual Storyteller Gets the Right Image — and the Right Tone

by Sarahbeth Maney,

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk

by Annie Waldman,

Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars

by Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon,

Microsoft’s “Free” Plan to Upgrade Government Cybersecurity Was Designed to Box Out Competitors and Drive Profits, Insiders Say

by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke,

Senator Slams Gun Industry’s “Invasive and Dangerous” Sharing of Customer Data With Political Operatives

by Corey G. Johnson,

State Regulators Know Health Insurance Directories Are Full of Wrong Information. They’re Doing Little to Fix It.

by Max Blau,

Meet ProPublica’s 2024 Class of Emerging Reporters

by Talia Buford,

How Lincare Became a Multibillion-Dollar Medicare Scofflaw

by Peter Elkind,

A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside.

by Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, and Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio,

Despite Biden’s Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down

by April Ehrlich, Oregon Public Broadcasting, McKenzie Funk, ProPublica, and Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting,

An Idaho Baby’s Unexplained Death Got No Autopsy and a Scant Coroner’s Investigation. State Law Says That’s Fine.

by Audrey Dutton, photography by Natalie Behring for ProPublica,

Despite Trump’s Win, School Vouchers Were Again Rejected by Majorities of Voters

by Eli Hager and Jeremy Schwartz,

Los migrantes se enfrentan a secuestros masivos al pasar por México mientras el país amplifica su cooperación migratoria con Estados Unidos

por Emily Green para ProPublica,

Courts Appoint Special Counsel to Oversee Reform of New York’s Troubled Guardianship System

by Jake Pearson,

What ProPublica’s Reporters Are Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them

by ProPublica,

Trump’s Near Sweep of Texas Border Counties Shows a Shift to the Right for Latino Voters

by Jasper Scherer, Zach Despart and Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune, and Perla Trevizo and Dan Keemahill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune,

What to Expect From ProPublica in a Second Trump Administration

by Stephen Engelberg,

El sheriff fronterizo pro armas y provida que perdió la lealtad de sus vecinos por ser tachado de “blando” con la inmigración

por Perla Trevizo, ProPublica y The Texas Tribune, fotografía por Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica,

What ProPublica Reporters Will Be Watching on Election Day

by ProPublica,

How ProPublica Has Covered Abortion Bans, Immigration and More Issues at Stake in the 2024 Election

by Stephen Engelberg,

A Georgia Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results

by Doug Bock Clark and Heather Vogell,

Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.

by Andy Kroll,

What We’re Watching

During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them securely.

Learn more about our reporting team. We will continue to share our areas of interest as the news develops.

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Sharon Lerner

I cover health and the environment and the agencies that govern them, including the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Andy Kroll

I cover justice and the rule of law, including the Justice Department, U.S. attorneys and the courts.

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Melissa Sanchez

I report on immigration and labor, and I am based in Chicago.

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Jesse Coburn

I cover housing and transportation, including the companies working in those fields and the regulators overseeing them.

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    The USDA Wouldn’t Let Her Give Up Her House When She Couldn’t Pay Her Mortgage. Instead, It Crushed Her With Debt.

    The USDA failed to follow its own guidance for a rural mortgage program, taking years to foreclose on delinquent loans. As a result, 55 Maine borrowers racked up, on average, $110,000 in additional debt before the agency moved to take the homes.

    by Sawyer Loftus, Bangor Daily News,

    Local Reporting Network

    RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market. They Could Flee Again.

    The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccines.

    by Patricia Callahan,

    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.

    by Logan Jaffe,

    The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles

    In 2013, ProPublica reporter David Epstein was contacted by a woman with a wild story and a batch of photos she believed were clues to the mystery of her condition. Turns out, she was right.

    by David Epstein,

    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.

    by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke,