Corrections

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.

Correction, April 6, 2017: This article previously gave the incorrect name for an attorney who represents the adult home industry. He is Jeffrey Sherrin, not Michael Sherrin.

Correction, April 4, 2017: When HHS Secretary Tom Price sold his stake in Innate Immunotherapeutics in February, the Australian company’s shares were trading at about 70 cents. An earlier version of this story said shares were about 90 cents, which was the price in Australian currency.

Correction, Dec. 16, 2016: A prior version of this story incorrectly referred to the disease affecting Mike Blackledge’s son as irritable bowel disease. It is inflammatory bowel disease.

Correction, Dec. 15, 2016: This story originally misidentified former New York City councilman Jose Rivera as Gustavo Rivera, and former deputy mayor Peter Powers as Peter Powell.

Correction, Dec. 15, 2016: This story incorrectly described Andrew Puzder as Trump’s nominee for labor secretary. Like all of his Cabinet picks, Puzder hasn’t been formally nominated yet.

Correction, Dec. 20, 2016: We initially wrote Mick Mulvaney, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, opposed “lowering” all spending. We intended to say “raising.” We also clarified the OMB’s role.

Correction, Dec. 12, 2016: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Piers Sellers as the director of NASA’s Earth Science division. He is the director of the Earth Sciences Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Correction, Nov. 28, 2016: This story originally misspelled Lawrence White’s last name. It’s White, not Wright.

Correction, Nov. 22, 2016: This story originally misstated the age of Abdelilah Himich. He is 27, not 32.

Correction, Nov. 16, 2016: The cover illustration of this story previously, and incorrectly, included the logo of Time Warner Cable. AT&T has actually proposed to merge with Time Warner, a different company. We’ve updated the illustration.

Correction, Nov. 2, 2016: This story incorrectly said it was AdvoServ chief executive Michael Martin who showed Carla Thomas a video of her daughter in an AdvoServ group home. It was a different AdvoServ official, State Director Darren Blough.

Correction, Oct. 28, 2016: This article misstated the minimum bail amount for defendants charged with drug possession. Minimum bail is $3,000, not $5,000. Defendants must have at least $450 available to secure their release from jail, not $500 as the article stated.

Correction, Oct. 27, 2016: This article has been corrected. An earlier version incompletely described how ProPublica obtained key documents and focused its investigation of Habit for Humanity’s New York City affiliate.

Correction, Aug. 24, 2016: This story originally said a study put the U.S. maternal mortality rate at 23.4 percent in 2014. The study said the rate was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 births that year.

Correction, Aug. 19, 2016: This post originally gave Duke Kahanamoku’s age as 34 when he won a medal in 1924. He was 33.

Correction, Aug. 4, 2016: This story was corrected to reflect that Sergey Bubka competed for the Soviet Union and Ukraine, not Russia.

Correction, July 11, 2016: This story originally characterized a factory in the Forest neighborhood in Brussels as a Renault factory. It’s an Audi factory.

Correction, July 7, 2016: The July 7, 2016, article, Busted, erroneously included an analysis of cocaine field tests results used by the Las Vegas police department. The sampling did not represent a broad submission of results to the department’s lab — it was an isolated group of field test failures including officer mistakes and false positives — and the data should not have been used to calculate an error rate. ​The article also misstated the​ average number of drug cases analyzed by the police department. The department says it was an average of 1,757 cases per year, not 73. And the article overstated the role field tests play in Las Vegas’s possession arrests. According to the Las Vegas police department, forms of evidence other than field tests can lead to drug possession arrests. They are not based exclusively on field test results.

Correction, June 15, 2016: An earlier version of this article listed an incorrect date for when the Department of Education accreditation committee is scheduled to review ACICS. The meeting is scheduled for June 23, not June 24.

Correction, June 14, 2016: This story incorrectly said that proposed legislation would make prisoners with high risk scores ineligible for treatment programs. In fact, these prisoners could sign up for treatment programs, though they would still be ineligible to have their sentences reduced until they lowered their risk scores.

Correction, May 23, 2016: This post incorrectly described an independent variable in a model as a dependent variable.

This post also incorrectly described the numerical ratings attached to COMPAS risk scores in two other instances. This did not affect our analyses.

Additionally, this post originally described an accuracy rate as its opposite — a rate of mistakes.

Correction, May 20, 2016: An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the Deputy Secretary of the Interior. He is Michael Connor, not Conner.

Correction, April 22, 2016: An earlier version of this story reported that Juana Caballero was arrested in April 2014. She was arrested in April 2013.

Correction, April 13, 2016: An earlier version of this article reported that four people had been arrested as a result of the Department of Investigation’s inquiry. DOI has amended its report to say only three people had been arrested.

Correction, April 11, 2016: Due to a transcription error, an earlier version of this article said Walker Guevara’s team called her “The Godfather.” What she said was “a cat herder.”

Correction, April 5, 2016: A previous version of this story incorrectly said that Dr. Jeffrey Drazen was the longest-serving editor of a major medical journal; he is one of the longest.

Correction, March 4, 2016: This story originally misspelled the name of state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer.

Correction, Feb. 8, 2016: A photo caption in this story originally misstated Jim Smith’s years of service in the Navy as 1972 to 1973. He served in the Navy from 1972 to 1979. He served aboard the U.S.S. Butte from 1972 to 1973.

Correction, Feb. 4, 2016: A chart in this story, showing judges’ approvals of temporary closing orders, was incorrectly labeled. The chart shows the percent of times judges approved such requests for both businesses and residences, not just for residents. Further, the judges’ combined rate of approval is 70 percent and not 75 percent.

Correction, Jan. 26, 2016: This article originally misidentified the late Russell Harding. He was Bob Harding’s brother, not his son.

Correction, Dec. 21, 2015: This story originally misspelled the first name of Dan Val Kish.

Correction, Nov. 24, 2015: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that 97 murders occurred in Indianapolis in 2012. Ninety-six murders occurred in 2012.

Correction, Nov. 24, 2015: This story originally stated that Jakob Engelberg died in 1942. He died in 1941.

Correction, Nov. 18, 2015: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology’s report about the effectiveness of the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records was issued in 2014. The report came out at the end of 2013.

Correction, Oct. 23, 2015: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that a California appeals court agreed that the California Institute of Technology had no legal duty to protect Brian Go from harming himself. While a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge made such a ruling, the family dropped its appeal before the appeals court decided the case.

Correction, Oct. 16, 2015: A previous version of this story said that before the new drugs, there was no cure for hepatitis C. In fact, some of the prior treatments for the virus cured a lower percentage of patients but the drugs often caused onerous side effects that caused patients to stop taking them.

Correction, Oct. 13, 2015: This story has been updated to clarify that the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery board of directors did not have a formal discussion or vote on the decision to use the Surgeon Scorecard when certifying or re-certifying doctors. The decision to do so was made by the board’s executive director, Dr. Shepard Hurwitz, who discussed it with some members of the group’s board of directors. The spelling of Hurwitz’s first name also has been corrected.

Correction, Aug. 31, 2015: This story originally incorrectly stated that athletes can miss three tests in 18 months before facing a sanction. As of 2015, athletes can miss three tests in 12 months before facing a sanction.

Correction, Aug. 27, 2015: This story originally misidentified Rachel Coleman as the founder of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education; she is a co-founder. And it incorrectly described a character in the novel “Anonymous Tip” as a “homeschooling mother;” only later in the book does she take up homeschooling.

Correction, Aug. 20, 2015: This article originally said blood samples taken at major track championships are stored for eight years. They are stored for 10 years.

Correction, Aug. 15, 2015: This article originally stated that Keoje is in Japan. It’s in South Korea.

Correction, Aug. 15, 2015: The timeline in this article originally said that in 2003, AT&T was forwarding 400 million Internet metadata records a month to the NSA. It should have said 400 billion.

Correction, July 22, 2015: An earlier version of this article imprecisely described one of the eight elective procedures in Surgeon Scorecard. What we identified as “Lumbar Spinal Fusion, Anterior Technique” is an operation in which a surgeon attaches a bone graft to the front of the patient’s spinal column, what doctors call anterior placement. The operation is done through an incision in the patient’s back, known as posterior approach. We are publishing the medical codes for each procedure including this one, which is IDC-9-CM code 81.08. We have revised the language for clarity.

Correction, July 17, 2015: This story has been corrected to reflect the amount of compensation the VA provided to Vietnam era veterans and all veterans in fiscal 2013. A previous version of the story mistakenly referred to the number of vets receiving compensation as the amount of the compensation.

Correction, July 9, 2015: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to the Red Cross’ claims about its overhead spending. The group has said 91 percent of all donations went to Haiti and nine percent to overhead, not the other way around.

Correction, July 2, 2015: This post has been corrected to change the average amount doctors received in payments in 2014. The graphic has also been corrected.

Correction, June 23, 2015: This article originally stated that 243 people were arrested during Medicare’s fraud takedown. Two hundred forty-three people were charged. Not everyone charged was arrested.

Correction, June 16, 2015: This story previously stated that the Hoover Dam is located in Boulder Canyon. It is in the Black Canyon.

Correction, June 2, 2015: This article misstated how many Western states will face dramatic cuts in their water supplies if the water in Lake Mead falls to emergency levels. Only Nevada and Arizona would face such cuts, not every state in the Colorado River basin.