ProPublica Investigations

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“Just Let Me Die”

The email took Dr. Neal Goldenberg by surprise in a way that few things still do.

https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-suicide-highmark-bcbs-insurance-denials?

America is in the midst of a mental health crisis.

Why I Left The Network

https://projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the-network/?

Three Chicago Schools Get Expensive STEAM Makeovers. Can the Effort Reverse Declining Enrollment?

This summer, worried parents called the principal at Chalmers Elementary on Chicago’s West Side to ask if the district had shuttered the school. They had noticed second-floor windows boarded up.

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-public-schools-transform-into-steam-academies?

These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing.

Three charter school superintendents who are among the highest paid in Texas are overseeing some of the lowest-performing districts in the state, newly released records show. One of them is at risk of closure by school year’s end.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-charter-superintendent-pay-performance?

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The H-2A Visa Trap

In the darkness before dawn, Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. took the last drag of a cigarette and looked out from the staircase of a run-down motel. Underneath the stark floodlights streamed a procession of weary travelers in T-shirts and jeans, reaching into the bottom of a white coach bus for their oversize duffel bags. Mendoza had arranged for them to come on this 1,200-mile journey from northeastern Mexico to a rural stretch of Georgia’s blueberry country. Each of them had a work permit, which Mendoza had helped secure through a visa program called H-2A.

https://projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/

Elon Musk Pushed Back on Our Reporting on His Houston Tunnels Plan. Experts Say His Comments Are Misleading.

Billionaire Elon Musk is taking issue with a recent investigation by the Houston Chronicle and The Texas Newsroom that raised questions about a flood tunnel project he’s pitching to address Houston’s chronic flooding woes. But experts said his response, which he did not explain to the newsrooms, isn’t supported by facts or data.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fact-checking-elon-musk-response-boring-houston-tunnels?

DNA Finally Tied a Man to Her Rape. It Didn’t Matter.

Seventeen years had passed by the time Boston police knocked on Louise’s door to say they had identified the man who allegedly raped and stabbed her in October 2005.

https://www.propublica.org/article/massachusetts-statute-of-limitations-rape?

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Elon Musk Has Criticized Environmental Regulations. His Companies Have Been Accused of Sidestepping Them.

Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it clear he disliked environmental regulations and considered them a barrier to innovation, especially given the quick timelines his companies prefer to operate on.

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-environmental-regulations?

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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.

Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-violations-mental-health?

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NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

The National Institutes of Health has launched a five-year, $37 million stillbirth consortium in a pivotal effort to reduce what it has called the country’s “unacceptably high” stillbirth rate.

https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-stillbirth-prevention-consortium?

Failed Root Canals, Lost Implants: How a Utah Dentist Accused of Substandard Care Was Allowed to Keep Practicing

The patients kept coming to the Utah oral surgeon’s office — one after another, year after year — with dental work that the surgeon said had gone wrong. He later recounted in a letter to state licensors that he had seen dental implants that had been the wrong size, patients with chronic sinus infections and one person whose implant had become lost inside their sinus cavity. These patients, he said, had all been worked on by the same dentist: Dr. Nicholas LaFeber.

https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-dentist-license-nicholas-lafeber?

A New Lawsuit Alleges the Gun Industry Exploited Firearm Owners’ Data for Political Gain

Two major law firms accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation this week of violating the privacy rights of millions of gun owners by running a decades-long program that sent their information to political operatives without consent.

https://www.propublica.org/article/gun-owners-privacy-lawsuit-nssf?

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

Most of the tax dollars used to launch and implement the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program have gone toward paying administrative costs rather than covering health care for Georgians, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan agency that monitors federal programs and spending.

https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?

“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role to Wage a Culture War

After a fight with a Black student in a St. Louis suburb left a white student badly injured in March 2024, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed their school district for unsafe conditions, even though the incident occurred after classes and more than a half-mile from campus.

https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-bailey-fbi-missouri-attorney-general-culture-wars?

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-china-investors-court-testimony?

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

The first time a Pennsylvania consultant named Charles Sowell connected with border czar Tom Homan was when Sowell reached out on LinkedIn in 2021, looking for advice about border contracting work. Homan had finished a stint as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, capping a three-decade career in federal government. He and Sowell built a rapport, based partly on their shared criticisms of then-President Joe Biden’s border policies.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-homan-border-czar-trump-mark-hall-charles-sowell?

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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of violating environmental regulations nearly 800 times in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.” The company’s alleged violations include starting to dig without approval, releasing untreated water onto city streets and spilling muck from its trucks, according to a new document obtained by City Cast Las Vegas and ProPublica.

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-violations-fines-vegas-loop?

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Indiana Killed Their Partners Under Cover Of Darkness. They Want Answers.

On the night Tahina Corcoran watched the state kill her husband at the Indiana State Prison, she rushed back to her car as fast as she could. It was around 1 a.m. on December 18, and she had already checked out of her hotel. “I knew before we headed to the prison for the execution that I would most likely want to get as far away from Michigan City as possible,” she said. She didn’t stop to talk to anyone. “I hated everybody there.”

https://theintercept.com/2025/10/09/indiana-execution-death-penalty-pentobarbital-injection/?

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Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help.

Despite federal law, disabled students can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms. With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-schools-students-disabilities-ada-accessibility?

On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous

On the far east side of Michigan, the future of fluoride in drinking water — long an ordinary practice for preventing tooth decay — has suddenly provoked passionate debate.

https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-fluoride-drinking-water-st-clair-county?

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This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools

The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian and less “woke.” Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-education-department-oklahoma-public-schools?

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-bill-medical-freedom-act-maha?

Joint Congressional Investigation Launched in Response to ProPublica’s Revelations on Detained Americans

Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-ice-americans-detained-joint-congressional-investigation?

Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Investigation Into Border Czar and Contracts Following ProPublica Report

A Washington-based watchdog is calling for an inspector general investigation into potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations in the office of border czar Tom Homan related to government contracting.

https://www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation?

This County Was the “Model” for Local Police Carrying Out Immigration Raids. It Ended in Civil Rights Violations.

Manuel Nieto Jr. and his sister had just pulled into a gas station to buy cigarettes and Gatorade when he noticed a sheriff’s deputy standing over two Latino men on the ground.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-287g-maricopa-county-arizona?

Arizona Police Agencies Were Once at the Forefront of Local Immigration Enforcement. Now Most Are Avoiding It.

Arizona law enforcement agencies are largely rejecting a fast-growing ICE program that lets local officers act as deportation agents — citing the experience of the state’s largest sheriff’s office, which was booted from the program in 2009 after a federal judge found deputies racially profiled and violated the constitutional rights of Latinos.

https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-police-immigration-ice-287g?

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Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.

The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley?

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force

When Reggie Williams turned 18 two decades ago, his mother entrusted him with his birth certificate. Keep it on you at all times, she advised, in case you encounter police.

https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-police-harassment?

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard

In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-spraying and tackling protesters.

https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-trump?

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks

It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data?

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

It’s never been easy to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Christopher Tincher knows this firsthand.

https://www.propublica.org/article/social-security-disability-eligibility-trump-red-states?

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How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger

On Oct. 7, 2019, a 30-year-old beautician named Temptress Peebles called the Nashville probation office begging for help. Days earlier, her ex-boyfriend Brandon Horton had come up behind her, choked her and kicked her in the face, according to a court document. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation?

“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office

Texas Rep. Nate Schatzline’s energy was palpable as he gazed out from the video on the computer screen, grinning ear to ear, the sleeves of his white dress shirt rolled up. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/fort-worth-mercy-culture-church-campaign-university?

Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis.

On a Sunday morning last month, James Taq’ac Amik was huddled on a small bridge with his girlfriend. At 4 a.m., they had scrambled into an 18-foot aluminum motor boat, fleeing floodwaters from a massive storm surge that inundated Kipnuk, a village of 700 in the heart of western Alaska’s sprawling Kuskokwim river delta. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-public-schools-emergency-shelter-neglect-typhoon-halong?

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How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland

Earlier this year, as I began to report on bird flu, an outbreak was raging across farms in Ohio and Indiana. Over 18 million hens — 5% of America’s egg-laying chickens — were ultimately culled in a cascade of cases that, to me, appeared connected.

https://www.propublica.org/article/methodology-bird-flu-outbreak-ohio-indiana?

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.

The most powerful Republican in Wisconsin stepped up to a lectern that was affixed with a sign reading, “Pro-Women Pro-Babies Pro-Life Rally.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-postpartum-medicaid-coverage-robin-vos?

Alaska Owns Dozens of Deteriorating Schools. Now It Wants Under-Resourced Districts to Take Them On.

For more than a decade, the Kuspuk School District asked Alaska’s education department for the money to fix a rotting elementary school. The school, in the small and predominantly Indigenous community of Aniak in western Alaska, was in deep need of repairs. The nearby Kuskokwim river had flooded the 88-year-old building several times. The walls were moldy. Sewage was leaking into a space below the school’s kitchen.

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-education-rural-school-districts-ownership?

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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-tierra-walker-preeclampsia?

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Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.

Months after fighting to keep secret the emails exchanged between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and tech billionaire Elon Musk’s companies, state officials released nearly 1,400 pages to The Texas Newsroom.

https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-releases-elon-musk-emails-redacted?

New York Moves Forward With a Brooklyn Flood Protection Plan That Falls Short of Other City Projects

After a decade of planning, New York City broke ground in September on a $218 million plan to prevent flooding in the portside neighborhood of Red Hook in Brooklyn, even though experts say it will provide inadequate protection from storms. The project also will provide less protection than other city flood prevention projects, including a new $3.5 billion upscale development on the edge of the neighborhood. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-brooklyn-flood-storm-protection?

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Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts

In recent days, five U.S. senators and two representatives requested documents from the Department of Homeland Security and a formal investigation into how a firm closely tied to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended up receiving money from a $220 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-strategy-group-senate-probe?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Long a Defender of States’ Rights, Embraces Trump’s Push to Expand Presidential Power

Just last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a bipartisan chorus of governors in denouncing a Biden administration plan they said would strip states of powers guaranteed to them under federal law.

https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-donald-trump-presidential-power-state-rights?

Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.

Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-parole-deportation-jeff-landry-operation-geaux?

5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into How Leaders of a Minnesota Church Community Enabled a Child Abuser

ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune found that victims of abuse within an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Duluth were told to forgive and forget. Here’s what to know from our reporting.

https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-old-apostolic-lutheran-church-investigation-takeaways?

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Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct

One of Chicago’s newest police sergeants had been deemed “unfit to serve” after an investigation uncovered evidence that he created a fake Facebook account and spread a nude photo of a woman he was sexually involved with, then lied to investigators about it. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-police-department-sexual-misconduct-promotions?

Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight

In late 2019, a pair of Montana ranchers got in trouble with the Forest Service, which oversees the federal lands where they had a permit to graze their cattle. Agency staff had found their cattle wandering in unauthorized locations four times during September of that year. The agency also found some of their fences in disrepair and their salt licks — which provide cattle with essential minerals — too close to creeks and springs, drawing the animals into those habitats.

https://www.propublica.org/article/politicians-help-ranchers-dodge-oversight?

The Night Raids

On a December night in 2018, Mahzala was jolted awake by a shuddering wave of noise that rattled her family’s small mud house. A trio of helicopters, so unfamiliar that she had no word for them, rapidly descended, kicking up clouds of dust that shimmered in their blinding lights. Men wearing desert camouflage and black masks flooded into the house, corralling her two sons and forcing them out the door.

https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-lynzy-billing?

A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.

Jimmie “Chris” Duncan walked out of the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center and into the arms of his parents last week after spending the last 27 years on death row. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/jimmie-duncan-louisiana-death-row-inmate-released?

Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.

Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted residents to rapidly rising water.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kerr-county-state-grants-flood-warning-system?

Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE

Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with his team’s immigration crackdown or lose your federal homeland security funding. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-trump-dhs-terrorism-prevention-grant?

Wealthy Ranchers Profit from Public Lands.

A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supercharging the system.

https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-ranchers-public-lands-trump?

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The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims

Ours is a time of provably wrong claims, vociferously stated. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reporters-data-immigration?

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Once Defended Congress’ Power of the Purse. Now He Defies It.

As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation funding.

https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-trump-transportation-secretary-congress-funding?

What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse

A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.

https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-old-apostolic-lutheran-church-sexual-abuse-police-recording?

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These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.

This past June, Ashley Voss-Barnes received a court summons in the mail.

https://www.propublica.org/article/federally-qualified-health-centers-unpaid-bills-lawsuits?

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale

The chemical industry finally got its wish.

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment?

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Immigrants in Alabama Can Face Harsher Sentences Than Citizens for the Same Crimes

Time and again in Alabama, immigrants face harsher punishments for the same crimes as citizens, even when they have fewer prior convictions, a ProPublica review of more than 100 court cases found.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-alabama-harsher-sentences-citizens?

The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds

The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-defective-device-recalls-gao-report?

Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox believes his state needs more power — a lot more. By some estimates, Utah will require as much electricity in the next five years as it generated all last century, to meet the demands of a growing population as well as chase data centers and AI developers to fuel its economy.

https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox?

Senator Demands Federal Agencies Halt Small Business Contracts, Citing Investigation of Native Hawaiian Firm

A top GOP lawmaker is calling on the Department of Defense to pause no-bid contracts through a small-business program for socially and economically disadvantaged companies, noting a scandal in which Native Hawaiian defense contractor Christopher Dawson was accused of cheating it for personal gain.

https://www.propublica.org/article/sb8a-native-hawaiian-republican-senate-oversight?

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Meet the U.S. Donors Funding ELNET, the AIPAC of Europe

U.S. donors are funneling millions to a group its leaders describe as the AIPAC of Europe.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/15/elnet-aipac-israel-lobby-europe/?

AIPAC Head Hosts Fundraiser for House Candidate Who Swears AIPAC Isn’t Backing Her

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is not publicly backing any candidate in the race to replace Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky in Illinois’s 9th Congressional District. But in private, the group is fundraising for Democratic state Sen. Laura Fine, who has distanced herself from AIPAC and said she isn’t seeking its endorsement.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/16/laura-fine-illinois-primary-aipac-donors/?

NY Times’ Bret Stephens Blames Palestine Freedom Movement for Bondi Beach Shooting

The total number of people killed in the antisemitic Bondi Beach massacre was still not known when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the opportunity to blame Australia’s mere recognition of a Palestinian state.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/15/nyt-bret-stephens-bondi-beach-shooting/?

U.N. Experts Blast U.S. Universities for Human Rights Violations Against Gaza Protesters

A commission of top United Nations human rights watchdogs sent a series of blistering letters to the heads of five U.S. universities raising sharp concerns over the treatment of pro-Palestine students, The Intercept has learned.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/16/un-human-rights-universities-columbia-gaza-protests/?

Olivia Nuzzi Is Completely Oblivious

Olivia Nuzzi’s world is populated by beasts, and by monsters.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/17/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-book-review/?

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Fighting for Breath

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 2023 was a milestone not just for her age, but because she was alive.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-generic-drug-equivalents-tacrolimus?

Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

https://projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/?

Rx Roulette

The agency charged with ensuring the safety of the country’s drug supply has for years allowed risky drugs into your medicine cabinet.

https://www.propublica.org/series/rx-roulette?

Inside the Free Clinic Caring for Those Who Can’t Afford the Only Hospital in Town

Albany, Georgia’s lone hospital — the region’s largest health care provider — is supposed to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay, but many residents have instead turned to the small, free Samaritan Clinic.

https://www.propublica.org/article/samaritan-clinic-phoebe-hospital-albany-georgia?

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A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay

Judges across Tennessee are now demanding greater accountability from people who have been ordered to give up their guns, a shift aimed at strengthening protections for domestic violence victims.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact?

I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.

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 the globe and Albany — small, remote and barely touched by time — had the world’s fourth-highest case rate.

https://www.propublica.org/article/albany-georgia-covid-19-crisis-phoebe-investigation?

Bad Evidence Got Him Indicted for Murder. He Waited 7 Years to Walk Free.

Justine Paul was accused of killing his girlfriend, Eunice Whitman. In Alaska’s slow-motion criminal justice system, he was kept behind bars even as the evidence against him fell apart.

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-murder-pretrial-delays-justine-paul?

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Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-governor-power-transfers-gop?

Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments

Before Todd Blanche could be confirmed as the second-highest official at the Justice Department, he had to satisfy the concerns of ethics officials.

https://www.propublica.org/article/todd-blanche-crypto-doj-trump?

Beatings, Humiliation, Psychological Abuse: What Venezuelan Men Experienced Inside CECOT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZRtCE2UcI

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Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year.

A few months ago, Oregon’s green energy outlook was bleak.

https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-legislative-progress?

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.

Kaitlin spent the first weeks of her newborn son’s life in a panic. The hospital where she gave birth in October 2022 had administered a routine drug test, and a nurse informed her the lab had confirmed the presence of opiates. Child welfare authorities opened an investigation.

https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-testing-thresholds-child-welfare?

Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases

What happened: Judge Jennifer Green, who oversees the Maricopa Superior Court’s criminal department, has quietly rolled out a program to facilitate quicker resolutions to death penalty cases in Arizona’s most-populous county.

https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-arizona-death-penalty-cases?

25 Investigations You May Have Missed This Year

Over the past year, ProPublica has published hundreds of investigations. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-investigations-you-may-have-missed-2025?