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Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience.

by Callie Ferguson and Erin Rhoda, Bangor Daily News, and Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica,

How Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses

by Eric Umansky,

He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway.

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News,

Connecticut Lawmakers Seek Overhaul of Towing Laws

by Ginny Monk and Dave Altimari, The Connecticut Mirror,

National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval

by Annie Waldman and Lisa Song,

What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America’s Largest Oxygen Provider

by Peter Elkind,

She’s on a Scholarship at a Tribal College in Wisconsin. The Trump Administration Suspended the USDA Grant That Funded It.

by Matt Krupnick for ProPublica,

How a Global Online Network of White Supremacists Groomed a Teen to Kill

by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica and FRONTLINE, James Bandler, ProPublica, and Lukáš Diko, Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak,

U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment

by Jesse Coburn,

How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars

by Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk, The Connecticut Mirror,

Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski,

This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

by Ellis Simani, ProPublica, and Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune,

Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections

by Sharon Lerner,

As Idaho Pushes to Reform Its Coroner System, Counties Seek to Make It Less Transparent

by Audrey Dutton,

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save

by Andy Kroll,

A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes

by Jeremy Kohler,

Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee

by Robert Faturechi,

Georgia Won’t Say Who’s Now Serving on Its Maternal Mortality Committee After Dismissing All Members Last Year

by Amy Yurkanin,

A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.

by Emily Schwing, KYUK,

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester,

Illinois Has Virtually No Homeschooling Rules. A New Bill Aims to Change That.

by Molly Parker and Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois,

NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment

by Heather Vogell,

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

by Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy,

Trump Is Sending Migrants From Around the World to Guantanamo. One Mother Speaks Out About Her Son’s Detention.

by Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica, Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica,

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign

by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski,

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”

by Agnel Philip and Lisa Song,

Mother Speaks Out Against Trump’s Detention of Her Son at Guantanamo

by Gerardo del Valle, Perla Trevizo and Mica Rosenberg,

Missouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War

by Jeremy Kohler,

How Cambridge Analytica Used Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives

by Corey G. Johnson, design by Anna Donlan,

Applications Open for 2025 ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program

by Talia Buford,

Montana Renews Accused Cancer Doctor’s License Despite Criminal, Civil Inquiries

by Mara Silvers, Montana Free Press, and J. David McSwane, ProPublica,

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence

by Jesse Coburn,

Gabriel Sandoval Joins ProPublica as Research Reporter

by ProPublica,

Amid Increasing Domestic Violence, Illinois Struggles to Review Fatalities

by Vernal Coleman,

ProPublica Updates Its Database of Museums’ and Universities’ Compliance With Federal Repatriation Law

by Mary Hudetz,

As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content

by Craig Silverman,

The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers

by Stephen Engelberg,

Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In

by Eli Hager,

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.

by Annie Waldman and Duaa Eldeib,

ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative

by ProPublica,

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

Education Department “Lifting the Pause” on Some Civil Rights Probes, but Not for Race or Gender Cases

by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen,

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion

by Avi Asher-Schapiro, Andy Kroll and Christopher Bing,

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

by Lizzie Presser, Andrea Suozzo, Sophie Chou and Kavitha Surana,

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

by Andrea Suozzo, Sophie Chou and Lizzie Presser,

These Soldiers Risked Their Lives Serving in Afghanistan. Now They Plead With Trump to Let Their Sister Into the U.S.

by Lomi Kriel, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune,

Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.

by Margaret Coker, The Current,

Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”

by Peter Elkind,

The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon

by Anna Clark,

ProPublica Wins Polk Award for Medical Reporting

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    Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths

    The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

    by Mark Olalde,

    Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion

    The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.

    by Robert Faturechi,

    Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program

    A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said.

    by Christopher Bing and Avi Asher-Schapiro,

    An Indian Drugmaker, Investigated by ProPublica Last Year, Has Recalled Two Dozen Medications Sold to U.S. Patients

    FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.

    by Patricia Callahan,

    A Closer Look

    Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

    By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

    by Alec MacGillis,