Corrections

Correction, June 8, 2018: An earlier version of this article included an outdated affiliation for Toby Wolson. He is no longer a criminalist in the Miami-Dade Police Department; he retired from that position in 2015.

Correction, May 17, 2018: This article originally misspelled Coretta Roddey’s name.

Correction, May 8, 2018: Due to an editing error an earlier version of this article misspelled the first name of the current governor of Connecticut. It is Dannel, not Daniel.

Correction, April 11, 2018: This story has been corrected to reflect that lawsuits were filed against the Cook County treasurer’s office, not the assessor’s office. It has also been updated to clarify the source of the Sun-Times’ estimation of tax refunds.

Correction, March 29, 2018: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health’s last meeting was on Feb. 18, 2016. It was on Sept. 8, 2016.

Correction, March 24, 2018: Eileen Maroney lives in Aiken, South Carolina. The name of her city was incorrect in the original version of this story.

Correction, March 15, 2018: On Feb. 22, 2017, ProPublica published a story that inaccurately described Gina Haspel’s role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader who was imprisoned by the CIA at a secret “black site” in Thailand in 2002. [Read the retraction.(https://www.propublica.org/article/cia-cables-detail-its-new-deputy-directors-role-in-torture)

Correction, March 15, 2018: This story originally reported that Gina Haspel was “chief of base” at the CIA facility in Thailand at the time Abu Zubaydah was tortured there. That assertion was incorrect, as we explain here.

Correction, March 13, 2018: An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to East Tennessee State University as Eastern Tennessee State University.

Correction, Feb. 27, 2018: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Tracy Occomy Crowder.

Correction, Feb. 26. 2018: Because of an error by researchers, this story previously misstated the number of reproductive-age women in rural America. The correct number is 18 million, not 28 million.

Correction, El catorce de marzo: Este reportaje indicó erróneamente la fecha en que el Departamento de Estado ordenó a 24 diplomáticos estadounidenses que salieran de Cuba. Fue el 29 de septiembre, no el 30 de septiembre.

Correction, Feb. 14, 2018: This article originally misstated the date that the State Department ordered 24 U.S. diplomats to leave Cuba. It was on Sept. 29, not Sept. 30.

Correction, Feb. 1, 2018: This story originally misstated Rep. Mark Takano’s first name.

Correction, Jan. 4, 2018: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to a boy’s stay in a facility overseen by Mississippi’s Department of Mental Health. The son of Robert Landrum, chair of the state board of mental health, stayed at the facility years ago, and is not a resident there now.

Correction, Dec. 30, 2017: An earlier version of this story said that the census hasn’t included questions about citizenship since the early 19th century. In fact, the census last included one in 1950.

Correction, Dec. 14, 2017: An earlier version of this article misstated the nature of the widely differing criminal sentences for possessing crack or powder cocaine that Congress implemented in the 1980s. The punishment for crack cocaine was not 100 times greater than the powder form. Rather, the drug quantity threshold for imposing a mandatory prison sentence was 100 times greater. For example, a conviction for possession of powder cocaine had to involve 500 grams of the drug to trigger a mandatory sentence of five years in prison; but for crack cocaine, possession of just five grams required the same sentence.

Correction, Dec. 8, 2017: An earlier version of this story said that black women are 300 percent more likely to die of pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes than black women. In fact, according to CDC data from 2011-2013, black women nationally are 243 percent more likely to die than white women.

Correction, Dec. 5, 2017: An earlier version of this article mistakenly attributed city councilman Reggie Brown’s description of his meeting with Sheriff Mike Williams and state Rep. Kim Daniels to a news release issued by a group of local civil rights organizations. However Brown said the article accurately reflected the meeting.

Correction, Dec. 4, 2017: A caption on the original story misidentified the image Christina Arenas was looking at on her computer screen. The caption said it was a mammogram, but it is an ultrasound.

Correction, Dec. 4, 2017: An earlier version of this article omitted the Medicare tax in calculating the top tax rate on earned income.

Correction, Nov. 16, 2017: An editing error resulted in an earlier version of this article misstating the name of the federal judge in New York who ruled the police department’s stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. She is Shira A. Scheindlin.

Correction, Nov. 13, 2017: This article has been updated to correct the description of how the email sender GetResponse learned about the email attacks on ProPublica. GetResponse noticed the attacks without using the industry’s new technical header.

Correction, June 19, 2014: An illustration on this story previously stated that Minnesota does not allow prone restraints on disabled children and that the state will ban the tactics in August 2015. In fact, Minnesota allows the use of prone restraints in an emergency, on disabled children aged five or older. Minnesota is currently enacting regulations to limit prone restraints, and it is uncertain changes in prone restraint regulations will occur by August 2015.

Correction, Oct. 16, 2017: A previous version of this story mistakenly referred to the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The nonprofit organization is called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Correction, Oct. 6, 2017: The court that blocked Texas’s release of voter data was a state court, not a federal court as we originally reported. In addition, we originally identified the plaintiff in the lawsuit that resulted in the release of email metadata as the Campaign Legal Center. It is the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Correction, Oct. 5, 2017: We originally identified the plaintiff in the lawsuit as the Campaign Legal Center. It is the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. We regret the error.

Correction, Sept. 22, 2017: This story originally said Daniel Martinez is an associate professor. He is an assistant professor.

Correction, Sept. 19, 2017: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described Turning Point USA. It is a nonprofit group that promotes conservative politics, not a political action committee, or PAC.

Correction, Sept. 18, 2017: A prior version of this story misstated the source of research done on opioid use. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; it was not done by the CDC.

Correction, Sept. 13, 2017: A previous version of this story listed U.S. Sen. John Cornyn as one of the officials who signed a letter to President Trump urging federal funding of the coastal spine. Cornyn supports the project but did not sign that letter.

Correction, Feb. 23, 2017: This article previously gave the incorrect name for the CEO of Amgen. His name is Robert Bradway, not Richard Bradway.

Correction, Feb. 15, 2017: On Feb. 8, the Trump administration announced the position of Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers was being demoted, and would no longer be a Cabinet-level position. We have updated our cards to reflect this change.

Correction, Jan. 19, 2017: We originally reported Larry Kudlow had been picked by President-elect Trump to head the White House Council of Economic Advisors. He has not been officially named, and the card has been removed.

Correction, Jan. 31, 2017: This article incorrectly said that Google and DropBox files are unencrypted. The post has been updated to clarify that those services are encrypted, but that those companies have the ability to unlock users’ files.

Correction, Aug. 25, 2017: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the composition of the 600 accounts tracked by the Alliance for Securing Democracy. The sample includes openly pro-Russian accounts that push content from RT and Sputnik, but RT and Sputnik are not themselves in the sample.

Correction, August 16, 2017: An earlier version of this article mistakenly described the acetone detected in air samples in Radford as cancer-causing. Acetone is not believed to be a human carcinogen.

Correction, August 4, 2017: This article incorrectly attributed a quote to Kristy Kummer-Pred. It has been deleted.

Correction, July 18, 2017: We have updated this piece to reflect a more specific characterization of the treatment of the 3.4 million people impacted by World Bank projects.

Correction, July 12, 2017: This story previously said former senator Joseph Lieberman grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. In fact, he grew up in Stamford, Connecticut.

Correction, July 10, 2017: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to deals between drugmakers and health plans for coverage of drugs like Repatha. The deals made it easier for patients to gain access to Repatha through their insurer; they did not ease restrictions on which patients were prescribed the drug.

Correction, June 27, 2017: A dropped word in a previous version of this article resulted in an understatement of the number of disciplinary actions taken by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct against town and village judges. Such judges were the subject of sanctions in 70 percent of all cases resulting in discipline over the course of the commission’s existence, not in just 70 cases.

Correction, May 31, 2017: An earlier version of this article quoted Brian Henry, a spokesman for Express Scripts, as saying that all administrative fees are passed back to plans in the Medicare program. After the article was published, Henry indicated that he misspoke and should have said that the “vast majority” of such fees were passed along to Medicare plans.

Correction, May 26, 2017: Dilantin, which was described in a previous version of this article as a sedative drug, is an anti-seizure drug though it does have sedative properties.

Correction, May 18, 2017: This story has been corrected to reflect that Lauren Bloomstein died after giving birth to a daughter, not a son.

Correction, May 17, 2017: We originally identified the university Clovis received his MBA from as Golden State University — it was Golden Gate University.

Correction, May 13, 2017: This piece originally indicated the Global Research Alliance to Reduce Agricultural Greenhouse Gases was part of the G20. It is a separate effort.

Correction, May 9, 2017: This article was corrected to note the early coverage The Associated Press did into the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

Correction, April 25, 2017: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified the Oregon town where a hate crime took place last month. It is Troutdale, not Troutman.

Correction, April 10, 2017: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said a grand jury in Austin, Texas, declined to indict on hate crime charges a man involved in a violent attack on a local taxi driver. The jury did hand up an indictment on hate crime charges.