by Max Blau, ProPublica Before I joined ProPublica in 2021, I had spent a year writing about a Georgia prison physician named Carlo Musso, one of the rare doctors who’d openly talked about his role in lethal injections. After he stepped away from that work, I wanted to know who
By Justin Bergman, International Affairs Editor, The Conversation This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It’s the middle of the night in April 2023 in the East China Sea. A North Korean-linked oil tanker sailing under another country’s flag suddenly goes dark. It stops transmitting
By Stephanie Armour, KFF Health News In the thick of his competitive reelection race in Michigan, Republican Rep. Tom Barrett joined Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a sprawling 400-acre apple orchard, farm, and winery. They touted Trump administration efforts to improve the American diet, including
By Samantha Liss and Rachana Pradhan, KFF Health News States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food benefits from millions. State governments rely on
This story was originally published by ProPublica. by Carla Astudillo, ProPublica When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he pushed for a seismic shift in immigration enforcement resulting in mass detention. Immigrants with no criminal convictions, who under previous administrations would have been released on bond or not
by Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Co-published with The Texas Tribune The rejections piled up one after another as leaders of Alpha School, a growing network of private school campuses, tried to convince states that their artificial-intelligence-led teaching model belonged in publicly funded charter schools. The Alpha system
by Zach Despart, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune, and Alexandra Glorioso, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Co-published with The Texas Tribune Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities,
This story was originally published by ProPublica in partnership with KQED. By Holly McDede, KQED California lawmakers unanimously passed legislation last week to ensure that school administrators are informed about past accusations of misconduct against teachers as part of their hiring process. The legislation follows a KQED-ProPublica investigation revealing how
by Jen Fifield, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the
by Richard A. Webster, Verite News, and Kathleen Flynn, ProPublica Co-published with Verite News Jimmie “Chris” Duncan spent 27 years in Louisiana’s Angola prison, most of it on death row, for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted in 1998 of killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter, Haley Oliveaux,
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