In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests

Brent Taylor is the front-runner for one of Memphis’ U.S. congressional districts, recently redrawn from majority Black to ...

Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware Victims

A federal grand jury indicted MonsterCloud CEO Zohar Pinhasi last month for allegedly defrauding clients of his ransomware ...

Bird Flu Is Raging on a Mink Farm. It Could Spark a Human Pandemic, Experts Say, but Officials Won’t Act.

Federal officials brushed off the issue as Utah prioritized the fur industry’s interests. Little has been done to stop the ...

Ken Paxton Says He’s Tough on Crime. His Trust Invested $600,000 in a Convicted Fraudster’s Company.

The blind trust’s investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general’s financial ties with the ...

Sexual Assaults on Campus No Longer Scrutinized as Closely Under Trump’s Education Department

ProPublica sued the federal government for records that show which schools are facing civil rights investigations — data that ...

Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.

A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons ...

Town Leaders Said They Were Prepared for Floods. First Responders Disagree.

Three people died in Ruidoso on July 8, 2025, after dangerous floods swept through the New Mexico town. First responders say ...

The Secret Terms of Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Deal

The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and ...

Colorado Marijuana Regulators Failed to Protect Consumers From Potential Contamination, Audit Finds

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division may have put consumers at increased risk of using unsafe cannabis products, ...

Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service

A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from the agency’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have ...

ProPublica Expands Enterprise Technology Team

ProPublica announced that Talaizia Morris has been hired as a support specialist on the enterprise technology team and that Nicholas Bailey has been promoted to director of enterprise technology and ...