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NEW: James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-james-talarico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Fraud #Law #KenPaxton #JamesTalarico
NEW: The owner of a private school in Arkansas ordered students to scrub floors and urged them to attack a classmate. Few records exist of the incident.
Reporter Jennifer Smith Richards pieced together what happened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-private-school-abuse-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arkansas #School #Education #Children #Violence #Trauma #Parenting
Reporter Annie Waldman toured Mark McAfee’s Raw Farm for a story about raw milk’s foothold in America despite its health dangers. Here’s what he told her about recalls, outbreaks and his relationship with the federal government.
Farmers want the Trump administration to overhaul the H-2A visa program to make it more favorable to their businesses. But cutting red tape could cut labor protections, too.
#Agriculture #Law #Trump #Immigration #Immigrants #Farm #Labor
NEW: ProPublica journalist Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers.
It left him wondering: Is there any way to find out whether the produce he buys at the grocery store comes from farms with a record of mistreating workers?
https://projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Food #Farm #Agriculture #Ethics #Labor #Groceries #Immigrant #Workers
Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.
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As ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune investigated child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, reporters found a common theme: children who were victims of sexual misconduct going on to repeat the behavior.
https://www.propublica.org/article/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-child-sexual-assault-cycle-abuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Minnesota #Washington #Religion #Children #SexualAssault #Abuse #Church
NEW: On Alaska’s Adak Island, it costs more than $340,000 per year to provide hundreds of buildings — all but a few of them empty — with internet access no one uses.
The money being wasted is yours.
https://www.propublica.org/article/adak-island-alaska-internet-subsidy-fcc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Alaska #Internet #FCC #Wifi #Business #Government #Money
A man was ordered to pay libel damages after calling the head of an Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.” Years later, he made similar claims against Islamic private schools applying for Texas’ voucher program, new legal filings say.
Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
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Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
https://www.propublica.org/article/human-rights-aid-right-wing-causes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #Europe #HumanRights #HumanitarianAid #Rightwing #Politics
When ProPublica first spoke with law professor Bennett Gershman he described the Alice Sebold rape case as “the most heinous kind of prosecutorial misconduct.” But as a paid expert for Syracuse he now asserts the city “did not engage in misconduct.”
In case you missed it:
Ken Paxton vowed to “stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity.” But experts say he may have violated state law by using an address where he no longer appears to live to vote in six elections in two years.
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Law #Vote #Election #Voting #Elections #TX #USPolitics
NEW: After ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed Ken Paxton repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live, Democrats called for an investigation into whether the Texas attorney general committed election fraud.
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Law #Election #Vote #Fraud #Investigation
DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double
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The number of scammers trying to capitalize on immigrants’ fears by posing as lawyers and ICE agents has surged since Trump’s reelection, ProPublica found. Now, DHS says it is seeking to identify and find these fraudsters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-immigration-scams-fraud-homeland-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Who runs this private school? Who will be teaching my child? Does this school have any documented issues?
We put together this guide to help you answer questions like these about private schools so you can make informed decisions for your family.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-research-private-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #Education #Parenting #School #Children #Parents #Kids
A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money.
As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place.
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-growth-florida-arizona-west-virginia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #School #Parenting #Teaching #Children #Florida #Arizona
NEW: The FBI has explored using AI to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballots seized from Fulton County, Georgia, another push in the Trump administration’s continued reinvestigation of the 2020 vote.
#News #FBI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Vote #Election #Georgia #Trump
This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.
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Despite multiple complaints — and videos — of physical abuse and mistreatment of students, Arkansas' Delta Institute continues to receive public funds. It is just one of hundreds of private schools taking state money with little oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arksansas-private-schools-vouchers-delta-institute-developing-brain-autism-harm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arkansas #Education #School #Children #Parenting #Teaching
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
#News #FCC #Entertainment #USPolitics #CBS #Paramount #Business #Ethics
NEW: Trump Administration Launches Crackdown on Teacher Sexual Misconduct
A ProPublica, KQED investigation found that California has not revoked the credentials of at least 67 educators who school districts determined had sexually harassed students or committed other types of sexual misconduct.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-teacher-sexual-misconduct-crackdown-linda-mcmahon
What We Uncovered About the Sexual Assault of Alice Sebold and a City’s Buried Rape Crisis
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ProPublica spent years investigating the attack on the bestselling author and the wrongly convicted man who lost decades of his life. Here’s what we learned about the failures in the justice system — and the consequences still being felt today.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sebold-rape-syracuse-investigation-findings-documentary?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Crime #Police #Women #Rape #SexualAssault #NewYork
In 2023, New Mexico’s AG ordered an investigation into one school district after ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth revealed Native students were expelled more often than any other group.
The investigation confirmed “substantial racial disparities.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-ag-report-gallup-mckinley-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewMexico #Law #School #Education #Indigenous #Children
A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
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Under Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, security forces have worked with the U.S. to destroy drug labs and kill or capture crime bosses. But the president is saying she won’t extradite members of her own political party.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-mexico-drug-trade-sheinbaum?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81x more likely to develop a type of uncontrollable bleeding than those who do. But no agencies track refusal rates or subsequent bleeding.
Read our original investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Parenting #Data #Transparency
NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, two lawmakers have called on the CDC to address a “preventable public health crisis” of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns — which has led to babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-cdc-rfk-jr-lawmakers-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Congress #Children #Parenting #CDC #RFKJr
NEW: Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile.
The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chile-suspects-venezuela-cabello-killing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Venezuela #Chile #Law #Crime #Politics #Geopolitics #Trump #Maduro
NEW: Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the federal Election Assistance Commission, while Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign, sources tell ProPublica.
#News #Trump #Elections #Midterms #USPolitics #Vote #Voting #Election
NEW: New York’s state constitution makes an unusual promise to residents: to provide care and support for the needy.
But a recent lawsuit accuses it of failing to meet that mandate by putting low-income households on the brink of homelessness.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-shelter-assistance-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewYork #NY #Law #Housing #Homeless #Poverty #Shelter #Care #Lawsuit
NEW: A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1 Million Social Security Numbers
A cybersecurity loophole in an official government mapping service left private data easily accessible, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and ProPublica learned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-crim-data-breach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PuertoRico #Government #Cybersecurity #Data #Privacy #SocialSecurity #Tech #Technology
NEW on “Paper Trail”: Reporter Renee Dudley heard Microsoft was running tech support for the Pentagon through China, the country’s biggest cybersecurity adversary.
She thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory — until she started looking into it.
Listen to the full episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/microsoft-digital-escorts-china-defense-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Podcast #Podcasts #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #Cybersecurity #Pentagon #Defense #China #Data #Journalism
NEW: Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, senior legal adviser to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is retiring “for personal reasons.”
His is the latest high-profile departure among the military’s top leaders and lawyers in the Trump administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-widmar-retiring-joint-chiefs-legal-adviser?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
