Authorities Can Deny Visa/GC Applications Witho Giving a Chance to Fix Errors

Immigration lawyers call the policy change, which kicks in today, another brick in Trump’s “invisible wall” to make legal immigration as difficult as possible. | Continue reading


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Shedding Some Light on Dark Money Political Donors - ProPublica

Political nonprofits don’t have to disclose the names of their donors. But thanks to a good-government group, you can now find out about nearly $763 million in donations to these “dark money” organizations. | Continue reading


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How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities

As a ProPublica/Frontline documentary shows, the economic and social gaps among cities are growing as dramatic as the gaps between urban and rural areas. | Continue reading


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How Do We Verify Anonymous Sources?

Very, very carefully, and only after making sure they merit anonymity. | Continue reading


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How the Trump Administration Went Easy on Small-Town Police Abuses - ProPublica

The Obama Justice Department thought Ville Platte, Louisiana — where officers jail witnesses to crimes — could become a model of how to erase policing abuses that plague small towns across the nation. Jeff Sessions decided not to bother. | Continue reading


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No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election

Hacking conference organizers said kids had hacked “exact clones” of state election reporting websites, but that didn’t happen. | Continue reading


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Download Chicago’s Parking Ticket Data Yourself

For the first time, the city’s database, which tracks more than 28 million parking and vehicle compliance tickets, is easily available to the public. | Continue reading


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The Shadow Rulers of the VA

How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies. | Continue reading


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The Shadow Rulers of the VA - ProPublica

How Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s veterans policies. | Continue reading


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Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities

If the charges against Maria Butina are accurate, she’s only the latest in a long line of Russian agents to go undercover on U.S. campuses. | Continue reading


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How Denmark Dumped Medical Malpractice and Improved Patient Safety (2015)

In the U.S., patients harmed during medical care have few avenues for redress. The Danes chose to forget about fault and focus on what’s fair. | Continue reading


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How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. | Continue reading


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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You–And It Could Raise Your Rates

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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You–And It Could Raise Your Rates

Without any public scrutiny, insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 5 years ago

Undercooked: An Expensive Push to Save Lives and Protect the Planet Falls Short

Millions of lives were at stake. Hillary Clinton was on board. Money poured in. And yet the big aims behind an effort to tackle the plague of third-world cooking fires has produced only modest gains. | Continue reading


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How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB Of… – ProPublica

We’ve open-sourced our code for loading Illinois campaign finance data. The process used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes. | Continue reading


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"I Just Want to Tell My Son I Love Him" - ProPublica

Parents held in immigration detention without their kids say the phones barely work and they still don’t know when they will see their children again, almost two weeks after the Trump administration declared it ended family separation at the border. | Continue reading


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FDA Repays Industry by Rushing Risky Drugs to Market

As pharma companies underwrite three-fourths of the FDA’s budget for scientific reviews, the agency is increasingly fast-tracking expensive drugs with significant side effects and unproven health benefits. | Continue reading


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I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong. - ProPublica

The gang is not invading the country. They’re not posing as fake families. They’re not growing. To stop them, the government needs to understand them. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 5 years ago

The EPA Underestimated Dangers of Widespread Chemicals

The CDC has quietly published a controversial review of perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, that indicates more people are at risk of drinking contaminated water than previously thought. | Continue reading


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Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated from Their Parents at the Border

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” | Continue reading


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Listen to Children Who've Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border - ProPublica

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” | Continue reading


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Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills

Patients may think their insurers are fighting on their behalf for the best prices. But saving patients money is often not their top priority. Just ask Michael Frank. | Continue reading


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Federal Watchdog Launches Investigation of Age Bias at IBM

After a ProPublica story spotlighting IBM’s practices in shedding older workers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission consolidated age discrimination complaints against the company from around the country. | Continue reading


@propublica.org | 5 years ago

Propublica Is Researching Employer NDAs

We hope to learn more about what effect nondisclosure agreements have on people’s lives and careers. | Continue reading


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