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Connecticut’s New Towing Law Will Help Some, but Not All, Drivers. Here’s What They Told Us.
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she ...
Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica”
The senators are calling for a federal watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s killing of hundreds of VA contracts ...
States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up
Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders ...
How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than ...
“You’re Already Approved”: How One Tennessee Company Sets a Debt Trap
Borrowers say the lending company Advance Financial encouraged them to borrow back the value of almost all of the payments ...
Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows ...
Seven Things to Know About ProPublica’s Investigation of the FDA’s Secret Gamble on Generic Drugs
ProPublica spent 14 months investigating the FDA’s oversight of foreign drugmakers that send medications to the U.S. These ...
Her Family Needed Housing. They Spent Months in New York Hotels, Left to Fend for Themselves.
Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from ...
New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports
New legislation will require callers to the state child abuse hotline to identify themselves. ProPublica’s reporting in 2023 ...
Federal Judge Deems Trump Administration’s Termination of NIH Grants Illegal
In a ruling issued Monday, the judge called the government’s directives “arbitrary and capricious” and ordered funding for ...
We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market
Our investigation exposed a little-known practice inside the FDA that allowed more than 150 drugs or their ingredients into ...