by Andy Kroll, ProPublica In mid-July testimony before Congress, Russell Vought boasted that, as the acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he’d refashioned the agency’s approach to pursuing banks and other financial companies accused of exploiting Americans — the role Congress had created for the agency after the
By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News Louisiana directs 20% of its opioid settlement payouts directly to sheriffs — the largest such carve-out for law enforcement of any state in the nation, according to an investigation by KFF Health News in partnership with three Louisiana news outlets: The Current, Gulf States
This story was originally published by ProPublica. By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica When ProPublica recently investigated a rape crisis that surged through Syracuse University in the 1980s, we found evidence that the school had taken steps to suppress news coverage of the assaults. The university responded by portraying itself as a
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have revised a dramatic claim made earlier this week about a sweeping Chinese cyber-espionage campaign, now saying that federal agencies identified as victims of the operation were “targeted” rather than definitively “hacked.” The walk-back follows a joint disclosure by the FBI, the National Security Agency and
WASHINGTON — Six months after the United States entered its war with Iran, the families of the troops fighting it say the emotional and financial toll is compounding, with little sign of relief. A Blue Star Families poll of roughly 200 active-duty military households in early March found that 81%
By Gibbs Knotts, Professor of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University, and Christopher A. Cooper, Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs, Western Carolina University South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s July 2026 appointment of Darline Graham to fill the remainder of her late brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate term – and her
By Ellen P. Aprill, Senior Scholar in Residence at the UCLA Law School’s Lowell Milken Center For Philanthropy And Nonprofit Law, University of California, Los Angeles The fate of President Donald Trump’s estimated US$400 million White House ballroom may hinge on the little-known and somewhat surprising rules as to when
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assumed the role of the nation’s top health official last year, scientists and health professionals were naturally fretting about how the anti-vaccine activist would approach vaccine policy. But during his first few months in office, Kennedy repeatedly offered two assurances designed to quell those concerns.
This story also ran on WAMU. People with disabilities have long fought for the right to live at home rather than in institutions. Now, the Department of Justice says states don’t have to help make that happen. The decision by the Trump administration comes amid massive cuts in federal funding
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