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NEW: To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education.
But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-disabilities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #School #Education #Disability #Accessibility #Students #Children #Parenting
NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/methane-gas-epa-proposal-stripper-wells?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Environment #Energy #Methane #Climate #ClimateChange #EPA
NEW: Evidence that became public only in the last two years raises new questions about a Saudi man who assisted two 9/11 hijackers.
“Somebody needs to explain to the American people why we didn’t see this information before,” a former FBI agent said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-911-saudi-bayoumi-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW on “Paper Trail”: We uncovered how the MLB enabled a shadow industry in the Dominican Republic.
This is the story of a supernaturally talented child set to receive a $1.8M signing bonus — only for him and his family to lose almost all of it.
Listen to the full episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/dominican-republic-baseball-mlb-pipeline-david-ortiz?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Podcast #MLB #Baseball #Sports #DominicanRepublic #Children
NEW: As delegates gather at NATO headquarters to discuss reducing civilian harm during combat, the Trump administration's absence from a group the U.S. co-founded is being dubbed "humiliating" and “dangerous” by current and former officials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hegseth-dod-nato-civilian-harm-reduction-absent?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #PeteHegseth #Defense #Pentagon #DOD #NATO #Politics
The Dominican Republic produces more major league ballplayers than any country outside the U.S., but the industry is essentially unregulated — and we’re investigating. Got a tip? Text “baseball” to 1-917-207-6447 on WhatsApp.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/dominican-republic-baseball-whatsapp-line?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Baseball #DominicanRepublic #Children #Sports #MLB #Journalism #WhatsApp
NEW: Major League Baseball has long known about teams making handshake deals with Dominican players as young as 11 — and the predatory industry that has grown around this system.
But it’s never publicly warned or penalized a team for making an early deal.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dominican-republic-baseball-factory-traps-players-mlb-santo-caraballo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: In 2020, Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Oneil Cruz was involved in a car crash that left three people dead.
ProPublica reveals how a Dominican moneylender helped to ensure that the young star was not prosecuted.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oneil-cruz-pittsburgh-pirates-santo-caraballo-car-crash-payments-dominican-republic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Pittsburgh #PittsburghPirates #OneilCruz #Baseball #MLB #Sports
A new audit by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays.
Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterms.
https://www.propublica.org/article/postal-service-audit-primary-election-ballots?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPS #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #Democracy #USPolitics
I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life.
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For years, I followed the case of Fred Steese, who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. When he died in August, it felt like the universe had dealt him yet another injustice.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wrongful-conviction-cancer-death?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #CriminalJustice #Law #Prison #Justice #Cancer #Death
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period.
The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ectopic-pregnancy-deaths-doubled-analysis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Women #Health #Pregnancy #Abortion #Data #Research #Texas
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state performed just one execution in that period.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Money #Transparency #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice
NEW: Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
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The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture of his wealth.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-senate-financial-disclosures-ethics-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #KenPaxton #Law #Ethics #Financial #Transparency #Rent #Mortgages
Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division can take months or even years to issue formal safety warnings about marijuana products even when it receives reports that the products are harming people’s health, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica found.
#News #Colorado #Denver #Cannabis #Marijuana #Health #Safety #Regulation
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Federal prosecutors today charged ICE agent Christian Castro with lying about the shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.
Last night, we reported that the prosecutor had planned to bring more serious civil rights charges but was blocked by DOJ officials in D.C. 👇
NEW on “Paper Trail”: We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth.
Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret.
One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long. Listen:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
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Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be deported rather than wait in detention centers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detention-judges-habeas-petitions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Immigration #ICE #Judge #Mississippi #Louisiana #Oklahoma #Minnesota
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE #Immigration #Law #Legal #News #DOJ
The memo cites an “increased operational tempo” as the reason. Prior to publication, the sheriff’s office declined to respond to a question about if it wanted to clarify its statement from July that the jail is supposed to hold ICE detainees for only up to 72 hours. (2/2)
Update: Five days after this story was published, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office provided ProPublica with an internal memo from ICE, dated Dec. 11, 2025, stating that the Pinellas County Jail “is redesignated as an over-72-hour facility, effective immediately.” (1/2)
Hurricane Helene Killed His Wife and Destroyed His Mobile Home. New Tenants Are Now Renting the Same Flood-Prone Land.
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Residents of a riverfront trailer park in the Appalachian Mountains have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again.
https://www.propublica.org/article/western-north-carolina-helene-mobile-home-fema-recovery?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NorthCarolina #Asheville #Hurricane #Housing #Home #Flood
Last year, the Texas education board rejected Alpha School’s pitch to open a charter amid concerns about its AI-driven curriculum.
But now Alpha’s private school campuses are set to benefit from the state’s new voucher program.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alpha-school-texas-vouchers-ai?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #Education #School #Students #Parenting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Top USPS officials expressed concerns that new mail voting rules could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-voting-usps-officials-concerns-disenfranchisement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPS #MailVoting #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Democracy #Trump
University of Florida professor Christopher McCurdy, the leading scientist urging policymakers not to criminalize kratom, has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association.
None of this is mentioned in the papers he publishes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kratom-legalization-christopher-mccurdy-research-conflict-of-interest-aka?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Florida #Research #Science #University #Conflict #Ethics
We’re continuing to report on abusive youth sports coaches and the gaps in the system that allow them to continue working with kids.
If you have something to share on this topic, we want to hear from you.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-us-investigate-abusive-coaches-youth-sports-aau?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A Texas volleyball coach who was the subject of an investigation last month by ProPublica and The Washington Post is now facing a federal child exploitation probe, according to an agent for Homeland Security Investigations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/volleyball-coach-ryan-richardson-homeland-security-investigations-child-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Volleyball #Children #Sports #Coach #Parenting #HomelandSecurity
The bill, which now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom, stems from KQED-ProPublica reporting that found at least 14 educators were hired by new schools after their former employers found they had sexually harassed students or committed other misconduct:
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-fired-teacher-sexual-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Following a KQED and ProPublica investigation, California lawmakers unanimously passed a bill that aims to ensure school administrators thoroughly vet past accusations of teacher misconduct as part of their hiring process.
#News #California #CA #School #Education #Teachers #Students
NEW: 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row.
Despite his overturned conviction, Louisiana could force him to go back.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-angola-death-row-wrongful-conviction-jimmie-duncan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Louisiana #CriminalJustice #Justice #Prison #Legal
After buzzy fintech startup Bilt left customers with frozen accounts and unpaid rents, Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt was “able to fix their issues” before the CFPB needed to investigate.
Weeks later, a second debacle hit customers.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bilt-cfpb-russell-vought-trump-consumer-protection-fintech?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Congress #RussellVought #Government #Credit #CreditCards #Consumer #Regulation
