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From Coke to Clorox, ProPublica contacted all 51 companies on the Consumer Brands Association board of directors to ask if they agreed with the group’s ... Show more

Which Brands Want to Loosen the Definition of “Recyclable”? — ProPublica

ProPublica and Documented identified 25 employers that, despite histories of wage theft, have received contracts worth more than a collective $500 million from ... Show more

In New York, Wage-Theft Violators Get Millions in Government Contracts — ProPublica

In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. 🔎 Look up your address to see risks from the ... Show more

Formaldehyde Cancer Risk in Your Neighborhood — ProPublica

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At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over customers’ names ... Show more

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Formaldehyde is all around us. It causes more cancer than any other chemical in the air. It can also trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility problems ... Show more

Formaldehyde Increases Your Cancer Risk No Matter Where you Live — ProPublica

THANK YOU to over 3,000 ProPublicans who donated in support of our mission yesterday ❤️ We exceeded our #GivingNewsDay goal and couldn’t be more grateful for your ... Show more

ProPublica interviewed dozens of established Latino immigrants and their U.S.-born relatives. Over and over, they said they resented that the government gave ... Show more

Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters — ProPublica

A University of Hawaii professor said FEMA’s housing program for survivors of Maui’s wildfires set up “a bounty system” for displacing residents ... Show more

FEMA’s Plan for Maui Wildfire Survivors Lacked Safeguards for Residents — ProPublica

A Nixon-era law forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements. Federal courts have also prevented presidents from refusing to spend money ... Show more

How Donald Trump Plans to Take Spending Control From Congress — ProPublica

The far right is now reclaiming climate change as an issue of their own — even using it to argue an anti-immigration agenda ... Show more

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In the strongest rebuke yet of Illinois school districts that ask police to ticket misbehaving students, the state attorney general has declared that the ... Show more

Illinois AG: It’s Illegal for Schools to Use Police to Ticket Students — ProPublica

Trump has picked Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, to run the Office of Management and Budget. In October, ProPublica and Documented released ... Show more

Videos Reveal Trump Adviser’s “Shadow” Plan for Second Administration — ProPublica

Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica ... Show more

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica’s Report on Amber Thurman, Candi Miller Deaths — ProPublica

“I had nowhere to go — no place, no tent, no nothing. I couldn’t even feed myself. The lowest point I’ve ever been in my life was after the sweep ... Show more

Homeless People Often Aren't Reunited With Belongings Taken by Cities — ProPublica

While she was miscarrying in Texas, Porsha Ngumezi needed a D&C — a standard procedure doctors are delaying or second-guessing under abortion bans — to stop ... Show more

Porsha Ngumezi Died After Not Getting a D&C in a Texas Hospital — ProPublica

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ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that have received almost $10 million over the past six years through a state-funded program ... Show more

Mississippi Segregation Academies Are Benefitting From Taxpayer Dollars — ProPublica

Reminder: Salmonella — even the most dangerous strains — perishes at 165 degrees Fahrenheit, and a meat thermometer is the only surefire way to tell if your ... Show more

Protect Yourself From Salmonella Over the Holidays — ProPublica

Donald Trump is entering his second term with vows to cut a vast array of government services and a radical plan to do so ... Show more

Tensions have grown between Denver’s immigrant and unhoused populations as the city struggles to serve both. “It's unfortunate that these communities end up ... Show more

As Denver Aids Arriving Migrants, Its Homeless Residents Feel Left Behind — ProPublica

ProPublica recently reported on two women — Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain — who died in Texas after they couldn’t access timely reproductive care. Now ... Show more

Texas Lawmakers Push for More Exceptions to Strict Abortion Ban — ProPublica

Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old mother of two living in Houston, Texas, was 11 weeks pregnant when she died last year after doctors did not give her a D&C ... Show more

The U.S. needs at least another 300,000 skilled welders, and immigrants have helped to fill this gap. But if those workers are hurt or die on the job ... Show more

An Immigrant Died Building a Ship for the U.S. Government. His Family Got Nothing. — ProPublica

In Idaho, there is no oversight of elected county coroners, contributing to a low autopsy rate. From 2018 to 2022, 49% of child deaths attributed to unnatural ... Show more

Their Baby Died. An Idaho Coroner Did Little to Find Out Why. — ProPublica

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica released a database earlier this year to allow journalists ... Show more

Easily Search the Finances of 527s With ProPublica’s New Database — ProPublica

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In the Phoenix area ... Show more

Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments — ProPublica

The SCOTUS ruling that rejected the doctrine of Chevron deference has already been cited in cases on abortion, overtime pay, airline fees ... Show more

The Key Cases Impacted by Supreme Court Chevron Deference Ruling — ProPublica

The decision came after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher ... Show more

EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval of Chevron Fuels Likely to Cause Cancer — ProPublica

Asked if mass deportations would do harm to the agricultural industry in Florida, Rick Roth responded with confidence that Trump would not actually engage in ... Show more

Rick Roth’s Support of Florida’s Immigration Bill Had Consequences. But Not for Him. — ProPublica

ProPublica spoke with 135 people who had experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it ... Show more

Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments — ProPublica

Trump says he’ll fight for working-class Americans. But in the White House, he advanced an agenda that was designed to cut health care ... Show more

What Trump’s Record Suggests About How He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans — ProPublica

A key Trump ally detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the EPA and put career civil servants “in trauma” in previously ... Show more

Videos Reveal Trump Adviser’s “Shadow” Plan for Second Administration — ProPublica

A sheriff’s deputy put handcuffs on an 11-year-old and locked him in the back of his patrol car. In the police report written later that day ... Show more

Under Tennessee’s School Threat Law, Kids Are Arrested for Rumors and Jokes — ProPublica

An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential ... Show more

Many Judges Don't Recuse in Cases Involving Their Families’ Interests — ProPublica

Exeter, one of the largest auto lenders in the U.S. and a CarMax partner, specializes in high-interest subprime loans. “We’re here to help,” reads its website ... Show more

Exeter Finance’s Offers to Help Cost Car Owners More — ProPublica

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems ... Show more

EPA Scientists Faced Retaliation After Finding Harm From Chemicals, Reports Find — ProPublica

Until recently, opioids almost exclusively killed adults. Since COVID-19 started, though, the rate of overdose deaths among teens more than doubled ... Show more

Maylia and Jack: A Story of Teens and Fentanyl — ProPublica

“I managed to get my shit together and accept them,” the operator of a local towing company said about the city’s recent immigrants ... Show more

How Immigration Is Affecting Whitewater, Wisconsin — ProPublica

Supporters of the bill want one of the plastic industry’s dirtiest and most inefficient technologies — one akin to incineration — to be redefined as ... Show more

The Plastics Industry’s Wish List for a Second Trump Administration — ProPublica

How might former President Donald Trump deal with poverty in America in his second term? His critics say you can find his proposals by looking at Project 2025 ... Show more

Some federal workers worry that Trump’s plan to relocate certain agencies would put the environment and public health at risk ... Show more

How Another Donald Trump Term Could Dismantle Federal Agencies — ProPublica

Decades of financial neglect at tribal colleges reflect a conscious decision by Congress and the federal government to dodge accountability ... Show more

Congress Is Underfunding Tribal Colleges by $250 Million Per Year — ProPublica