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Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes

by Eric Umansky

March 6, 2024, 12:35 pm EST
Senators Call for Federal Investigation Into Liberty University’s Handling of Sexual Assaults. School Promises Independent Probe.

by Hannah Dreyfus

November 10, 2021, 5:00 am EST
New York Lawmakers Demand NYPD Halt Undercover Sex Trade Stings

by Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan

December 16, 2020, 11:10 am EST

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87 stories published since 2014

She Begged for Help. This State’s Probation Gap May Have Put Her in Danger.

by Paige Pfleger, WPLN, and Mariam Elba, ProPublica

November 11, 2025, 5:00 am EST
The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations

by Lisa Song

August 5, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Wisconsin’s Name-Change Law Raises Safety Risks for Transgender People

by Phoebe Petrovic, Wisconsin Watch

April 17, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
A Political Power Grab Redirected Funds for North Carolina’s Sexual Abuse Survivors. Women in Crisis Paid the Price.

by Doug Bock Clark

March 28, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
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

March 11, 2025, 2:45 pm EDT
Women Made Electoral Gains in Statehouses Across the Country in 2024. The Southeast Is a Different Story.

by Jennifer Berry Hawes

January 22, 2025, 5:00 am EST
In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach.

by Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio, photography by Stacy Kranitz

August 12, 2024, 5:00 am EDT
Liberty University Hit With Record Fines for Failing to Handle Complaints of Sexual Assault, Other Crimes

by Eric Umansky

March 6, 2024, 12:35 pm EST
Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care Is an Unequal Patchwork

by Aliyya Swaby

May 12, 2023, 11:00 am EDT
How South Carolina Ended Up With an All-Male Supreme Court

by Jennifer Berry Hawes

April 28, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
Ayude a ProPublica y The Salt Lake Tribune a investigar las agresiones sexuales en Utah

por Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune, y Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica

March 14, 2023, 7:05 am EDT
Doctors Warned Her Pregnancy Could Kill Her. Then Tennessee Outlawed Abortion.

by Kavitha Surana, photography by Stacy Kranitz

March 14, 2023, 5:00 am EDT
Help ProPublica and The Salt Lake Tribune Investigate Sexual Assault in Utah

by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune, and Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica

February 22, 2023, 8:05 am EST
Her Ex-Husband Is Suing a Clinic Over the Abortion She Had Four Years Ago

by Nicole Santa Cruz

July 15, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
What You Need to Know When You Give Birth in a Country With Rising Maternal Mortality Rates

by Adriana Gallardo

May 9, 2022, 5:00 am EDT
Senators Call for Federal Investigation Into Liberty University’s Handling of Sexual Assaults. School Promises Independent Probe.

by Hannah Dreyfus

November 10, 2021, 5:00 am EST
“The Liberty Way”: How Liberty University Discourages and Dismisses Students’ Reports of Sexual Assaults

by Hannah Dreyfus, photography by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica

October 24, 2021, 7:22 pm EDT
“Unheard” Wins SPJ Ethics in Journalism Award

by ProPublica

August 12, 2021, 6:35 pm EDT
Alaska Requires DNA Be Collected From People Arrested for Violent Crimes. Many Police Have Ignored That.

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

December 31, 2020, 11:00 am EST
After 3 Years and $1.5 Million Testing Rape Kits, Alaska Made One New Arrest

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

December 30, 2020, 11:00 am EST
New York Lawmakers Demand NYPD Halt Undercover Sex Trade Stings

by Joaquin Sapien and Joshua Kaplan

December 16, 2020, 11:10 am EST
NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price

by Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien

December 7, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Junior Staffer Says Top Alaska Official Told Her to Keep Allegations of Misconduct Secret

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

November 18, 2020, 2:00 pm EST
Alaska’s “Him Too” Moment: When Politicians and Allies Come With Accusations of Their Own

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News and Greg Kim, KYUK

October 23, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
Her Stepfather Admitted to Sexually Abusing Her. That Wasn’t Enough to Keep Her Safe.

by Nadia Sussman

September 18, 2020, 12:00 pm EDT
The Woman Propositioned by Alaska’s Former Lieutenant Governor Tells Her Story for the First Time

by Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News

September 10, 2020, 1:30 pm EDT
Trabajadoras temporales luchan contra supuesto acoso sexual y dicen que sufren represalias por hacerlo

por Melissa Sanchez

August 28, 2020, 5:15 pm EDT
Temp Workers Fight Back Against Alleged Sexual Harassment and Say They Face Retaliation for Doing So

by Melissa Sanchez

August 28, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
She Asked to Be Saved From Him. Now She’s Dead.

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

July 28, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
The Bizarre Fall of the CEO of Coach and Kate Spade’s Parent Company

by William Cohan for ProPublica

July 22, 2020, 5:30 am EDT
Agonizing Lag in Coronavirus Research Puts Pregnant Women and Babies at Risk

by Nina Martin

July 6, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
An Opportunity to Listen as Our “Unheard” Project Becomes a Museum Installation

by Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, and Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News

July 1, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
For Decades, She Blamed Herself for the Abuse. Writing Her Story Was an Act of Survival. Publishing It Was an Act of Rebellion.

by Adriana Gallardo

June 27, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
Her Addiction Landed Her in a Prison Segregation Wing. The Man She Says Abused Her Lives Free.

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

June 20, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
Her Attacker Was Stopped in the Act and Arrested, but This Assault Was Only the Beginning of Her Trauma

by Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News

June 18, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
“They Were the Authority and I Didn’t Argue With Authority”

by Agnes Chang

June 13, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
The Teacher Who Returned to the Small Village Where She was Abused is Not Staying Silent

by Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News

June 6, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
Trapped at Sea, Alone With Her Assailant, He Told Her “You’re Mine for the Week”

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

June 4, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
Here’s What Experts Say to Do After Experiencing Sexual Assault

by Adriana Gallardo and Nadia Sussman

June 1, 2020, 8:00 am EDT
Giving Voice to Alaska’s Unheard Sexual Assault Survivors

by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica and Ariana Tobin, ProPublica, and David Hulen, Anchorage Daily News

June 1, 2020, 8:00 am EDT
How We Worked With Survivors of Sexual Assault in Alaska to Tell Their Stories

by Adriana Gallardo and Nadia Sussman

June 1, 2020, 8:00 am EDT
How Photographers Sought to Redefine the Image of Alaska’s Sexual Assault Survivors

by Anne Raup, Anchorage Daily News, and Agnes Chang, ProPublica

June 1, 2020, 8:00 am EDT
Unheard

by Adriana Gallardo, Nadia Sussman and Agnes Chang, ProPublica, and Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News

June 1, 2020, 8:00 am EDT
“I’m Terrified”: Pregnant Health Care Workers at Risk for Coronavirus Are Being Forced to Keep Working

by Nina Martin and Bernice Yeung

April 1, 2020, 1:30 pm EDT
Lo que significa el coronavirus para un embarazo, y otras cosas que deben saber las madres embarazadas y nuevas

por Nina Martin

March 23, 2020, 12:56 pm EDT
What Coronavirus Means for Pregnancy, and Other Things New and Expecting Mothers Should Know

by Nina Martin

March 19, 2020, 5:32 pm EDT
The New U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate Fails to Capture Many Deaths

by Nina Martin

February 13, 2020, 12:40 pm EST
Did You Give Birth in Your Home? Help ProPublica and Vox Report.

by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Julia Belluz, Vox

February 10, 2020, 5:00 am EST
VA Secretary Looked for Dirt on a House Staffer Who Reported Sexual Assault in a VA Hospital, Complaint Says

by Isaac Arnsdorf

February 7, 2020, 2:47 pm EST
The Extraordinary Danger of Being Pregnant and Uninsured in Texas

by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Julia Belluz, Vox

December 6, 2019, 5:00 am EST