How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who ...

Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It.

James Talarico’s comments come after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Texas attorney general may have broken ...
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A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled ...

How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School

Mary “Tracy” Morrison ordered students to scrub floors and urged them to attack a classmate. Few records exist of incidents ...

ProPublica Hires Amy-Elizabeth Hagen as Vice President of Accounting and Controls

ProPublica announced that Amy-Elizabeth Hagen has joined the organization as vice president of accounting and controls. “I am ...

5 Raw Quotes From America’s Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner

I toured Mark McAfee’s Raw Farm for a story about raw milk’s foothold in America despite its health dangers. Here’s what he ...

How the Government’s Obligation to Keep Foreign Workers Safe Collided With Its Efforts to Keep Farms Afloat

Farmers want the Trump administration to overhaul the H-2A visa program to make it more favorable to their businesses. But ...

Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.

As ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune investigated child sexual abuse in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, reporters ...

On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet

U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak ...

How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools

A man was ordered to pay libel damages after calling the head of an Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.” Years later, ...
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Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to ...