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Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
2+ hour, 30+ min ago In November 2024, Democrat Josh Stein scored an emphatic victory in the race to become North Carolina's governor, drubbing his Republican opponent by almost 15 percentage points. His honeymoon didn't last long, however. Two weeks after his win, the North Carolina legislature's…...
Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets
3+ hour ago Before Todd Blanche could be confirmed as the second-highest official at the Justice Department, he had to satisfy the concerns of ethics officials. Blanche, President Donald Trump's personal attorney during his New York criminal trial last year, was a cryptocurrency…...
Bad Evidence Got Him Indicted for Murder. He Waited 7 Years to Walk Free.
1+ day, 3+ hour ago Co-published with Anchorage Daily News and KYUK This story contains descriptions of a violent murder. A rush of cold air fills the kitchen on a spring day in the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk as a man dusted in frost…...
I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
2+ day, 3+ hour ago Last week, ProPublica published a five-part series that I wrote with senior research reporter Doris Burke about Albany, Georgia, and its only hospital, Phoebe Putney Memorial. We started working on the story five years ago, when COVID-19 was racing around…...
Fighting for Breath: The FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk
2+ day, 20+ hour ago Wrapped in a flashy fur coat she'd found at a thrift store for the occasion, Hannah Goetz blew out the candles on her favorite red velvet cheesecake. It was her 21st birthday. The celebration with her family that evening in February…...
Inside the Free Clinic Caring for Those Who Can’t Afford the Only Hospital in Town
3+ day, 2+ hour ago Not far from the Samaritan Clinic is Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Southwest Georgia's largest hospital " a nonprofit founded on the principle that patients should be treated regardless of their ability to pay. So why do some residents turn to a…...
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
3+ day, 2+ hour ago This story describes in detail incidents of racial and sexual harassment. In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot "to make us a better race." The only two…...
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
3+ day, 17+ hour ago With every bottle of prescription medication comes an implied promise: The drugs are safe and effective and meet strict standards set by the Food and Drug Administration. But the agency known as one of the world's toughest regulators provides only…...
How We Created a Tool That Tells You Where Your Generic Drugs Were Made
3+ day, 22+ hour ago To understand how risky drugs could end up in your medicine cabinet, ProPublica spent more than a year and a half investigating the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of the foreign factories that make generic medications and have been cited…...
Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
5+ day, 2+ hour ago Co-published with The Salt Lake Tribune Dr. Kirk Moore had been on trial for five days, accused of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination cards and throwing away the government-supplied doses. The Utah plastic surgeon faced up to 35 years in prison if the…...