NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts-brendan-carr-ethics-complaint-warner-bros-merger?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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

What’s going on with America’s farms and food?

Join us on Aug. 4 for a members-only discussion about America’s farms, how our food is made and where regulations are failing to keep workers and consumers safe.

Not yet a member? Any donation makes you one: https://give.propublica.org/campaign/726982/donate?c_src=mstdn&c_src2=exposing-harm-food-invite

#News #Agriculture #Farming #Food #Safety #Regulation #Cyclospora

California schools will soon be able to easily search the names of bus drivers, janitors and other school support staff to see if they have substantiated claims of misconduct.

Why hasn’t a similar system for teachers succeeded?
https://www.propublica.org/article/california-teacher-misconduct-database-bill-failed-al-muratsuchi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #California #School #Teacher #Education #Data #Law #Transparency

Trump’s Canada Tariffs Decimate Border Crossings, Business in Upper Michigan
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Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sign of relief.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-canada-tariffs-michigan-sault-ste-marie?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Michigan #Canada #Trump #Tariffs #Trade #Business #Economy

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls.

But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused.
https://www.propublica.org/article/andy-beshear-kentucky-opioid-drug-crisis-medicaid-spending-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Kentucky #AndyBeshear #Medicaid #Fraud #Healthcare #Health #Drugs

Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate
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The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit operators.
https://www.propublica.org/article/transdev-senate-oversight-bus-crashes-public-transit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Bus #Safety #Crash #School #Transit #Transportation #Congress

When Microsoft reviewed the early results of Anthropic’s new AI model for cybersecurity, it was a sobering scene: Hundreds of bugs were identified, many of them critical.

What followed was a “mad dash” to patch them — but many more remain.

https://www.propublica.org/article/anthropic-mythos-microsoft-software-vulnerabilities?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Cybersecurity #Tech #Microsoft #Technology #Anthropic #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hacking

This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
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Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nick-adams-state-flag-charity-civics-state-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #MAGA #Trump #Nonprofit #Charity #Funding #Education #USPolitics

NEW: ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of Justice Department lawyers.

We found judges nominated by both parties who are frustrated that they can no longer take the government at its word.
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Law #Legal #Courts #Trump #Justice #Ethics #USPolitics

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding.

One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-science-grants-russell-vought-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Science #Physics #Research #Funding #Academia

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/5-quotes-raw-milk-mark-mcafee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Farming #Health #California #Wellness

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-protections-profits-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/islamic-private-schools-texas-vouchers-sam-westrop?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#news #texas

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.”

#LawEnforcement #Crime #Police #NewYork #Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-case-prosecutorial-misconduct-bennett-gershman?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-democrats-ken-paxton-voting-complaint?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#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

#News #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Fraud #Immigrant #Law #Trump

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-2020-election-georgia-fulton-artificial-intelligence-fbi?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#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.

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

#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

#news #government #education #california

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