By Renee Dudley, ProPublica, with research by Doris Burke This story was originally published by ProPublica. On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing. The tech giant was racing
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. By Anna Clark, ProPublica On the northeast edge of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, nearly 1,100 people gathered in late June for the International Bridge Walk across the long span that links two cities with the same
By Kali Bomeli, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. In a private ceremony on Sept. 17, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a podium inside the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and praised a Florida nonprofit for what he called a singular achievement in American education. The
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by Annie Waldman, ProPublica I never thought I’d spend six months of my life investigating raw milk. But I did. In early June, ProPublica published a story I reported that features Mark McAfee, who runs America’s largest raw-milk dairy. The story came about after months of reporting on how the
By Jonathan Caulkins, Professor of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Anyone who has bought gas or a lottery ticket in Pennsylvania lately has probably seen one: a glowing machine in the corner that promises cash payouts. There are tens of thousands of these “skill games” across the state, and until
By Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News / ProPublica Co-published with Anchorage Daily News. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to get their stories in your inbox every week. On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Expensive Gifts: Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or
Trade agreements used to be negotiated once and left alone for a decade. That era is over. In the past eighteen months, the United States has renegotiated terms with several major partners, layered new tariff schedules on top of existing frameworks, and used trade policy as an active lever in
When a crisis hits — a natural disaster, a refugee surge, a public health emergency — the world still turns first to a familiar set of institutions: the United Nations, the World Health Organization, regional development banks, and a patchwork of NGOs built to move fast when governments can’t. Increasingly,
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