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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
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
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.
#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
