As Trump Demands Voter Data, This Fiercely Independent Red State Says No

Wary of federal intrusion, Idaho passed a law three decades ago allowing it to sidestep so-called motor-voter laws. The ...

DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator

In its rush to boost nuclear energy, the Trump administration is rapidly rewriting rules to ease regulations and provide ...

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.

A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted

This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January. The shift follows weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread ...

Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress

Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from ...

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Finalist

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School named the series RX Roulette: The FDA’s Dangerous Gamble on America’s Drugs a finalist for the 2026 Goldsmith ...

The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law

One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded ...

Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil ...

An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community

If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we need your insights to do important ...

This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.

David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of ...

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has ...

Overseas Press Club Awards, Winner

ProPublica reporters Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy won the Roy Rowan Award at the 87th Annual Overseas Press Club Awards for “The End of Aid: Trump Destroyed USAID. What Happens Now?” The ...