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Who Decides When Vaccine Studies Are Done? Internal Documents Show Fauci Plays a Key Role.

Correction, Oct. 16, 2020: This story originally misspelled the given name of an analyst at the investment bank SVB Leerink, Mani Foroohar.

New Eyewitness Accounts: Feds Didn’t Identify Themselves Before Opening Fire on Portland Antifa Suspect

Correction, Oct. 14, 2020: The story has been updated to correctly identify the town of Lakewood.

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

Correction, Oct. 15, 2020: This story originally misstated the year China joined the World Trade Organization. It was 2001, not 2000.

Correction, Oct. 13, 2020: This story originally misidentified the location of a “Save America” collection jar. The jar appeared in a Geneva coffee shop, not the USTR’s Geneva office.

Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances

Correction, Oct. 12, 2020: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of Doreena Duphily.

The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning

Correction, Sept. 29, 2020: This story originally credited a nationwide survey on the availability of in-person education to Chalkbeat. The survey was conducted by Chalkbeat and The Associated Press.

What the Photos of Wildfires and Smoke Don’t Show You

Correction, Sept. 21, 2020: This story originally omitted a heading identifying Josh Edelson as the speaker of a quote beginning, “I’ll drive up a dirt road for miles and miles and miles and I think there’s just gonna be nothing up there.”

Correction, Sept. 21, 2020: This story originally misstated the degree held by Tim Ingalsbee. He has a doctorate in environmental sociology, not ecology.

ICE Deported a Woman Who Accused Guards of Sexual Assault While the Feds Were Still Investigating the Incident

Correction, Oct. 23, 2020: Due to incorrect information provided to ProPublica by an FBI spokesperson in September, this story wrongly stated that the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General is the lead agency investigating allegations of sexual assault at an El Paso immigrant detention center run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A month after the story was published, the spokesperson, Jeanette Harper, wrote in an emailed statement that she had “inadvertently received and provided inaccurate information.” The DOJ Inspector General has consistently declined to comment. Harper said the lead agency was the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE. Its inspector general and the FBI have interviewed women making the allegations, according to their lawyer, Linda Corchado. A spokesperson for the DHS Inspector General, which previously had not responded to inquiries, wrote Friday in email that per its policy the agency could not confirm or deny investigations.

For Election Administrators, Death Threats Have Become Part of the Job

Correction, Aug. 21, 2020: This story originally misattributed a quote from a press release. The state Democratic Party said: “Holding an election in the middle of a global pandemic is a complicated and difficult process. I think everyone involved should be proud of the results today.” It did not say that “other states should be reaching out to Kentucky for advice, as a potential blueprint for scaling up pandemic-safe voting for the November elections.” (That quote was from the Democratic Governors Association.)

The Federal Government Gives Native Students an Inadequate Education, and Gets Away With It

Correction, Aug. 10, 2020: This story originally misstated the findings of a report by the Government Accountability Office. The report found that BIE special education students did not receive 20% of their service time, not that 20% of BIE special education students did not receive all their services.

After a Year of Investigation, the Border Patrol Has Little to Say About Agents’ Misogynistic and Racist Facebook Group

Correction, Aug. 5, 2020: This story mistakenly said the Rep. Veronica Escobar was on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Escobar, who was mocked in posts in the Border Patrol Facebook group, is familiar with the committee’s activities, but is not on it.

How Voter-Fraud Hysteria and Partisan Bickering Ate American Election Oversight

Correction, July 22, 2020: This story incorrectly stated that Christy McCormick had worked at the Department of Justice under former Attorney General John Ashcroft. While she worked on cases that originated during his tenure, she began after he left.

How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers

Correction, July 28, 2020: In a quote, the data scientist Youyang Gu originally misidentified the phenomenon of when "you gravitate towards data that matches your belief and you ignore data that goes against your belief." It is confirmation bias, not selection bias.

Trump Financial Regulator Quietly Shelved Discrimination Probes Into Bank of America and Other Lenders

Correction, July 17, 2020: This story originally misstated the Department of Justice's actions in an investigation. The DOJ has not taken action to date on a Cadence Bank redlining investigation referred by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; it is not the case that it sent the matter back to the OCC.

How a Key Federal Civil Rights Agency Was Sidelined as Historic Protests Erupted

Correction, July 15, 2020: A photo caption with this story misstated the year of a march in Memphis. It was in 2008, not 2009.

The NYPD Isn’t Giving Critical Bodycam Footage to Officials Investigating Alleged Abuse

Correction, July 3, 2020: This story originally misstated the number of members on New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. There are 15 members, not 13.

The Nation’s First Reparations Package to Survivors of Police Torture Included a Public Memorial. Survivors Are Still Waiting.

Correction, July 6, 2020: This story originally misidentified the Chicago roadway renamed for Black journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. It was a portion of Congress Parkway, not Balbo Drive.

ProPublica’s 2020 Reader Survey Results

Correction, Sept. 23, 2021: This story originally misreported the number of ProPublica reader survey respondents earning less than $75,000 in income in 2020. It was 44%, not 43%.

Oyster, Air Fryer and Bicycle Companies Say Their Goods Are Essential to Fighting Coronavirus So They Can Get Tariff Relief

Correction, June 25, 2020: This story originally mischaracterized the use of Phthalimidopropionaldehyde. It is used to make Lipitor, rather than being an active ingredient.

Emails Reveal Chaos as Meatpacking Companies Fought Health Agencies Over COVID-19 Outbreaks in Their Plants

Correction, June 13, 2020: This story originally misstated the CDC's amended guidance on quarantining. It should have said that asymptomatic workers with a potential exposure could go back to work immediately but should monitor their symptoms, not that asymptomatic workers could go back to work immediately.

An Elementary School Repeatedly Dismissed Allegations Against Its Principal. Then, an FBI Agent Pretended to Be a 13-Year-Old Girl.

Correction, May 12, 2020: This story originally said Bethel police did not believe they had enough evidence to charge Carmichael with a crime in 2018. Acting Police Chief Amy Davis says that while the case was not very provable based on available evidence, police did refer it for prosecution.

Correction, May 12, 2020: This story originally misstated where the Bering Strait School District is based. It’s based in Unalakleet, not Nome.

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