Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
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The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.
https://www.propublica.org/article/syracuse-sexual-assault-lawsuit-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #University #College #Students #SexualAssault #Law #Lawsuit #Transparency #Records

NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks.

“They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-calls-camp-east-montana-texas-detention?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #Immigration #ICE #Emergency #Medicine #Health

NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS.

One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-rebooking-ice-jails-florida?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Florida #DHS #ICE #Immigration #Law #Immigrant

President Trump wants 401(k) plans to invest more in private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency.

Here’s how a proposed rule change from the Labor Department could affect your 401(k) plan.
https://www.propublica.org/article/401k-retirement-plan-fees-funds?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #WhiteHouse #Retirement #Finance #PersonalFinance #WallStreet #Business

NEW: In Idaho, prosecutors can't file neglect or manslaughter charges against parents who say their faith prohibited giving lifesaving medical care to their children.

Until the early 1970s, that wasn’t the case.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-law-faith-healing-exemption?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Parenting #Children #Health #History #Medicine #Law

The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco
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ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/army-artillery-factory-fiasco-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Army #Texas #Military #Defense #Ukraine #Pentagon #Government #Tech

NEW: After U.S. missile strikes killed hundreds of civilians in Iran and Yemen, the Defense Department is poised to reinstate a program meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. Pete Hegseth gutted it over the objections of top commanders.

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mitigation-response-trump-defense-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Hegseth #PeteHegseth #Defense #Pentagon #Iran #Trump #Military

NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care.

Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Idaho #Law #Children #Religion #Health #Medicine #Parenting

His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major Flaws.
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Dr. Craig Towers was hailed as a hero for his research on detoxing pregnant opioid users. After he published a study that found naltrexone could help patients stay off drugs, addiction specialists started asking if his work was too good to be true.
https://www.propublica.org/article/craig-towers-knoxville-tennessee-newborn-withdrawal-study?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Pregnancy #Women #Drugs #Health #Medicine #Research #Science

They Rebuilt After Texas’ Devastating Floods. Then Their Home Flooded Again.
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Research shows more flood deaths occur in Texas than in any other state. But state lawmakers have cleared the way for residents to stay in risky places, even after flooding killed at least 119 people in Kerr County last summer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-flooding-2026-kerr-county?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #House #Home #Flood #TX #USPolitics #KerrCounty #TexasFloods

Oregon Is Spending More Than Ever on Low-Income Housing. A State Law Keeps the Details Secret.
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The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-affordable-housing-cost-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Oregon #Housing #Poverty #Homelessness #Homeless #Transparency

NEW: Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors.

Campaign messaging never explicitly states the amendment would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved only two years ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Missouri #GOP #Republican #LGBTQ #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics

NEW on “Paper Trail”: Hundreds of immigration agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex overnight last year, some rappelling down from a helicopter.

Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested “terrorists.”

We uncovered a very different story. Listen to the full episode:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/why-chicago-south-shore-apartment-immigration-raid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Immigration #ICE #Chicago #Venezuela #Immigrant #Trump #USPolitics #Podcast #Journalism

Parents of kids who play sports: Did you know that there’s an official list you can check to see if their coaches have been accused of sexual abuse?

Here’s how to use it — and how to let us know what you find.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/what-parents-should-know-sexual-abuse-youth-sports-aau-safesport?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Sports #Children #Coach #Abuse #SexualAbuse #Parenting #Parents #Family

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ryan-richardson-pharr-texas-usa-volleyball-safesport-abuse-teens?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Sports #Children #Volleyball #Texas #Abuse #Parenting

Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries.
https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-health-data-africa-humanitarian-aid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Congress #Trump #Health #PublicHealth #Data #Africa #Geopolitics

Congress considering the president’s proposal to increase the defense budget to a record $1.5 trillion next year.

To help the public understand what’s really at stake, we need to speak to experts in this world, which means anyone who knows how the Pentagon is spending taxpayer money and what defense contractors are doing with it.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/share-military-defense-spending-tips

#Military #Defense #Pentagon #Army #Navy #Government

The $1 Trillion Black Box
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The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spending.
https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Military #Defense #Pentagon #Army #Navy #Government #USPolitics

NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
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In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-cases-vaccines?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #PublicHealth #Measles #Medicine #Children #Vaccines #Science

NEW: At some private schools across the U.S., every student uses taxpayer money to pay toward tuition, thanks to the growth of school voucher programs.

But these "quasi-public" schools face almost none of the scrutiny given to public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-wisconsin-atlas-preparatory?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #School #Wisconsin #Milwaukee #Parenting #Children

How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noncitizen-voting-trump-homeland-security-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Election #Vote #Voting #USPolitics #DHS #Law

Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations after Trump’s Justice Department charged the group with fraud.

We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donor-advised-funds-charity-contributions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Charity #Nonprofit #Trump #DOJ #Law #Philanthropy #USPolitics

How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donor-advised-funds-charity-contributions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Voting #DHS #Law #Politics

The AAU, one of the country's largest youth sports organizations, is failing on nearly every level to adequately protect children in its care from sexual abuse, a ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/aau-youth-sports-sexual-abuse-failure-amateur-athletic-union?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Sports #Basketball #Children #Parenting #Family #Kids

NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company.

Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wayne-halfway-house-jason-crews-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Tennessee #Children #Prison #Abuse #CriminalJustice

NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking.

Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Defense #Military #Ukraine #Government #Technology #Tech

At ProPublica, we file a lot of public records requests.

But since the start of the second Trump administration, writes news apps developer Al Shaw, getting public records has become a “Kafkaesque” process of bounced emails and broken portals.
https://www.propublica.org/article/foia-requests-responses?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Accountability #Journalism #Media #Records #Data #Government #Trump

NEW: The EPA hasn’t reevaluated its cleanup guidelines for homes in a residential Superfund site in Omaha, Nebraska, in 17 years, despite research showing that even small amounts of lead can cause IQ loss in children and heart attacks in adults.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-remediation-epa-standards-omaha-nebraska?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #EPA #Environment #Government #Omaha #Children #Health #Family

Trump administration officials suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa.

“It’s laughable to suggest that on the African continent, the prime issue of human rights concern is whites in South Africa,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-afrikaner-south-africa-money?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #HumanRights #Funding #Politics

Citing a previous ProPublica investigation, House Democrats pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins for answers in a letter last week about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under the Trump administration.
https://www.propublica.org/article/democrats-veterans-affairs-doug-collins-letter-mental-health?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Veterans #Congress #Government #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Trump