2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (245+ words) The post Emergency Managers: Help ProPublica Prepare to Report on the Next Disaster appeared first on ProPublica. We know disasters are a matter of where and when, not if. And just like you, our reporting team at ProPublica wants to…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1245+ words) Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year's midterms. Election experts…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (711+ words) Last summer, I traveled to McLoud, Oklahoma, home to the state's largest women's prison. McLoud " a town of fewer than 5,000 residents " lies 30 miles east of Oklahoma City on a wide expanse of prairie. At the edge of town, off a…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1329+ words) When guards appeared earlier this month outside the room Christian Hinojosa shared with her son and other women and children at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, she guessed what they might be after. She quickly donned her puffy…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (654+ words) The post U.S. Forest Service Stops Issuing Firefighter Pants That Contain PFAS, Following ProPublica's Reporting appeared first on ProPublica. Following a ProPublica article revealing that the U.S. Forest Service had for years issued clothing to wildland firefighters that it knew contained potentially…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1643+ words) In mid-January, an unassuming man in khakis and a button-down shirt walked to a wooden lectern at a school board meeting in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Most chairs in the audience were empty. The man, Tim Smith, was the only…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (647+ words) This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation's only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. I had asked some of the parents to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (820+ words) Co-published with The Denver Gazette Colorado marijuana manufacturers would no longer be allowed to choose which product samples they send for mandatory lab testing under a new regulatory proposal discussed at a policy forum on Friday. Instead, the state's Marijuana…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (620+ words) Officials at the U.S. Forest Service knew gear worn by wildland firefighters contained potentially dangerous "forever chemicals" years before the agency publicly acknowledged the issue, according to internal correspondence obtained by ProPublica. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, have…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (846+ words) Co-published with The Texas Tribune The Trump administration's push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal, more than were filed under the last three administrations combined " including President…...