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In 2023, New Mexico’s AG ordered an investigation into one school district after ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth revealed Native students were expelled more often than any other group.
The investigation confirmed “substantial racial disparities.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-ag-report-gallup-mckinley-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewMexico #Law #School #Education #Indigenous #Children
A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
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Under Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, security forces have worked with the U.S. to destroy drug labs and kill or capture crime bosses. But the president is saying she won’t extradite members of her own political party.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-mexico-drug-trade-sheinbaum?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81x more likely to develop a type of uncontrollable bleeding than those who do. But no agencies track refusal rates or subsequent bleeding.
Read our original investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Parenting #Data #Transparency
NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, two lawmakers have called on the CDC to address a “preventable public health crisis” of parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns — which has led to babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-cdc-rfk-jr-lawmakers-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Health #PublicHealth #Congress #Children #Parenting #CDC #RFKJr
NEW: Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile.
The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chile-suspects-venezuela-cabello-killing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Venezuela #Chile #Law #Crime #Politics #Geopolitics #Trump #Maduro
NEW: Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the federal Election Assistance Commission, while Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign, sources tell ProPublica.
#News #Trump #Elections #Midterms #USPolitics #Vote #Voting #Election
NEW: New York’s state constitution makes an unusual promise to residents: to provide care and support for the needy.
But a recent lawsuit accuses it of failing to meet that mandate by putting low-income households on the brink of homelessness.
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-shelter-assistance-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewYork #NY #Law #Housing #Homeless #Poverty #Shelter #Care #Lawsuit
NEW: A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1 Million Social Security Numbers
A cybersecurity loophole in an official government mapping service left private data easily accessible, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and ProPublica learned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-crim-data-breach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PuertoRico #Government #Cybersecurity #Data #Privacy #SocialSecurity #Tech #Technology
NEW on “Paper Trail”: Reporter Renee Dudley heard Microsoft was running tech support for the Pentagon through China, the country’s biggest cybersecurity adversary.
She thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory — until she started looking into it.
Listen to the full episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/microsoft-digital-escorts-china-defense-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Podcast #Podcasts #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #Cybersecurity #Pentagon #Defense #China #Data #Journalism
NEW: Brig. Gen. Eric Widmar, senior legal adviser to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he is retiring “for personal reasons.”
His is the latest high-profile departure among the military’s top leaders and lawyers in the Trump administration. https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-widmar-retiring-joint-chiefs-legal-adviser?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: Washington Law Says to Alert the Public When Doctors Are Accused of Misconduct. It Can Take Months.
In the case of OB-GYN Mark Mulholland, who was repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct, Washington’s medical board waited six weeks to announce it had filed charges. He kept seeing patients during that time, and one alleges he abused her in the interim.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-doctor-misconduct-failed-disclosure?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Washington #Medicine #Health #Doctors #Law #Transparency #SexualAssault
Some 401(k) and 403(b) plans are stuck in investments with bloated fees and costly add-ons.
Help ProPublica investigate the financial products companies are pushing and the fees they’re charging workers.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/share-401k-fees-retirement-investment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Finance #PersonalFinance #Investment #Retirement #401K
NEW: Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — investments.
https://www.propublica.org/article/401k-retirement-investment-plan-risk-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #WallStreet #Finance #PersonalFinance #Investment #Trump
NEW: Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his 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 #KenPaxton #Vote #Election #Law #TX #USPolitics
NEW: The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heavily favor the livestock industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/public-land-livestock-grazing-ranching-access?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PublicLands #Livestock #Cattle #Regulation #Native #Environment #Conservation
NEW: Amid Mounting War Casualties, Pete Hegseth “Defunded and Impeded” Efforts to Protect Civilians, Lawmakers Say
Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-trump-war-civilian-casualties-elizabeth-warren-pentagon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PeteHegseth #Defense #Politics #Trump #Iran #War #Pentagon #Congress
NEW: Cadillac Heights used to be a quiet neighborhood. After a historic land swap facilitated by Detroit officials, a billionaire-owned concrete plant moved in.
Now residents say they are battling air pollution so thick they can “taste the dust.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/detroit-kronos-morouns-concrete-neighborhood-takeover?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Detroit #Industry #Michigan #BlackMastodon #Pollution #Environment
NEW: These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the first Trump presidency.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unaccompanied-minors-deportations-elder-chavez?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #Immigrants #Trump #Children #USPolitics #Law
NEW: “He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis.
Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana. Records paint a portrait of how the Texas facility’s staff failed to adequately respond.
#News #Texas #MentalHealth #Immigration #TX #Health #Medicine #Immigrants
Previously, most rapes could not be prosecuted after the state’s 15-year deadline, even if a DNA match was found.
A 2025 WBUR-ProPublica investigation tracked one woman’s fight for justice after police missed the deadline to prosecute her rapist: https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Massachusetts #SexualAssault #Rape #Law #Crime #Women #DNA
NEW: Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts will no longer have one of the strictest rape prosecution deadlines in the country.
#News #Massachusetts #SexualAssault #Rape #Law #Crime #Women #DNA
NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral
"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."
#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence
NEW - A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SCOTUS #Law #SupremeCourt #Legal #Trump #Data #Research
NEW - “That Guy Is Still Out There”: Alice Sebold, the Wrong Man and Syracuse’s Buried Rape Crisis
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alice-sebold-anthony-broadwater-rape-exoneration-syracuse?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #AliceSebold #Rape #SexualAssault #Syracuse #Crime #Law
NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells.
But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem.
https://www.propublica.org/article/enid-oklahoma-oil-gas-pollution-water-protections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Environment #Pollution #Water #Regulation
NEW: Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-death-penalty-executions-ron-desantis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Florida #Law #Prison #DeathPenalty #RonDeSantis #CriminalJustice #Legal
NEW: Last year, the Trump DOJ dropped its oversight of troubled police departments in several cities, claiming the reform efforts were “factually unjustified.”
But officers continued to engage in the same abuses, per a new ACLU report.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aclu-trump-police-reform-doj-minneapolis-louisville-phoenix-memphis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The court’s ruling came after a 2025 Verite News and ProPublica investigation examined the reliability of the key forensic evidence used to convict Duncan.
Revisit our original investigation: https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-jimmie-duncan-bite-mark-analysis-death-row-junk-science?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
