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

As we dug into a little-known church, we started to see a pattern: women describing similar abuse; a preacher who knew what was going on.

And the same prescription for the problem: forgiving and forgetting it happened.

Listen to the latest episode of "Paper Trail": https://www.propublica.org/podcast/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-sexual-abuse-clint-massie?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Church #Religion #Minnesota #Police #Children #Abuse

He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
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Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-wrongful-conviction-compensation-liz-murrill-elvis-brooks?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Louisiana #Law #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Justice #Legal

We previously found that Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #Election #Vote #Voting

After James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Democratic Senate candidate may have voted in up to five elections using an address where he no longer lived.
https://www.propublica.org/article/james-talarico-texas-election-law-ken-paxton?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #Election #Vote #Voting

Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?
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After our tests showed many yards still contain toxic lead after remediation, the city’s response to residents has been inconsistent. Some received additional testing and cleanup, while others were denied.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-superfund-epa-retesting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Omaha #Nebraska #EPA #Environment #Testing #Family

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's willing to "micromanage" Corpus Christi's water crisis.

But he's gone quiet on the financial troubles of an agency that could help expand the region's water supply — despite Abbott having appointed its entire board.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-nueces-river-authority?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #Water #TX #Politics #River #GregAbbott #CorpusChristi

We independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediated years ago.

Here’s how we did it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-testing-superfund-methodology?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Science #Research #Omaha #Nebraska #Environment #Pollution #Soil

The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site.

New soil tests by The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-contamination-epa-superfund-omaha-nebraska-analysis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Omaha #Nebraska #Environment #Pollution #Children #Health #EPA

A 2024 High Country News-ProPublica investigation found that solar developer Avangrid continued to push for the project despite being warned of its threats to Native food supply, ceremonies and history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-state-is-leaving-tribal-cultural-resources-at-mercy-of-solar-developers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Washington #Indigenous #Native #Solar #Energy #RenewableEnergy

NEW: Renewable energy developer Avangrid has pulled a long-standing and controversial solar project on Washington’s Badger Mountain, a site sacred to Indigenous nations, following years of delays and tribal objections.

By @Toastie
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-badger-mountain-solar-project-canceled-avangrid?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Washington #Indigenous #Native #Solar #Energy #RenewableEnergy

The complaints cite a ProPublica report detailing how CBS and Paramount have for years given FCC commissioners luxury gala tickets, which the commissioners accepted even as the FCC was reviewing or about to review major Paramount business decisions.

Read our original investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #FCC #Government #Ethics #USPolitics #Paramount #CBS #Entertainment #Business