“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
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Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this,” one doctor said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-usaid-humanitarian-aid-freeze-ukraine-gaza-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Trump #USPolitics #Palestine #Sudan #Ukraine #Yemen #Humanitarian #Aid
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ICE Enforcement Official Tapped to Lead Unaccompanied Migrant Children Office, Triggering Alarms
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ICE official Mellissa Harper has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-children-ice-office-refugee-resettlement-mellissa-harper?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #ICE #Immigration #Refugees #Children #Goverment #Trump
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Donald Trump’s choice to lead HUD has a history of voting against protections for poor tenants. And Trump’s choice to lead the IRS once pushed to abolish the agency entirely.
Revisit ProPublica’s reporting on some of Trump’s key appointees:
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-appointments-cabinet-propublica-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Trump #Government #Housing #Tax #Environment #Business #Health
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The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations.
“We don’t have much, but what we do have is important.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-wisconsin-trump-mass-deportations-nicaragua?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Immigration #Immigrants #Trump #USPolitics
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Vera Rubin Was a Pioneering Female Astronomer. Her Federal Bio Now Doesn’t Mention Efforts to Diversify Science.
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The edits to the webpage offer a glimpse into how far the Trump administration will go in refusing to acknowledge today’s inequalities as it purges federal initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vera-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Government #DEI #Science #Astronomy #Space #Trump
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In the Wild West of School Voucher Expansions, States Rely on Untested Companies, With Mixed Results
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States are handing multimillion-dollar contracts to a handful of fledgling private companies to manage the rapidly growing, convoluted marketplace of school-choice programs. The process has been bumpy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-voucher-management-classwallet-odyssey-merit-student-first?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #School #Education #Business
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To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class
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A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-cuts-congress-republicans-plan-slash-benefits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #GOP #Congress #Republicans #Taxes #Business #Finance #Poverty
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More than two years after ProPublica sued the Navy, the Department of Defense is mandating public notice of military preliminary hearings.
Legal experts say the new guidance still falls far short of what is required under federal law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/military-courts-access-navy-propublica-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Government #DOD #Navy #Military #Law
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How Many Students Have Been Expelled Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law? There’s No Clear Answer.
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Tennessee gives public agencies wide latitude to refuse to release data. That made it challenging for our reporters to figure out just how many students were affected.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-law-expulsions-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Tennessee #Government #Education #School #Students #Teaching
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They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway.
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A Republican judge is trying to overturn his election loss by challenging more than 60,000 ballots. These are some of those voters’ stories.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-voters-jefferson-griffin-supreme-court-challenge?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #NorthCarolina #Election #Election2024 #Vote
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Dozens of People Died in Arizona Sober Living Homes as State Officials Fumbled Medicaid Fraud Response
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Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the scheme.
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-sober-homes-deaths-medicaid-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Arizona #Medicaid #Addiction #Fraud #Indigenous #Native #NativeAmerican
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As our editor-in-chief said back in November: Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.
At ProPublica, our mantra is that we bring the receipts to every story we publish.
https://www.propublica.org/article/second-trump-administration-investigative-journalism?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Before the election, Heritage Foundation staffers flooded federal agencies with records requests, looking for employees whose emails and messages contained terms like “climate change" or “DEI,” so they could be purged by a second Trump administration.
In case you missed our story from Oct. 2024:
https://www.propublica.org/article/have-government-employees-mentioned-climate-change-voting-or-gender-identity-the-heritage-foundation-wants-to-know?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities
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A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and encourages young people to commit attacks.
https://www.propublica.org/article/madison-nashville-school-shooters-online-extremism?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Nashville #Madison #Extremism #SchoolShooting #Terrorism #Violence #SocialMedia
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Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds
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The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-labor-investigation-health-insurance-doctors-healthcare?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #MentalHealth #Insurance #Health #Government #Law
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North Dakota Sued the Interior Department at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency.
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The state was hostile to Interior Department policies during the Biden administration. A review of its lawsuits under Burgum reveals an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doug-burgum-north-dakota-interior-department-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #NorthDakota #Government #FossilFuels #Energy #Oil #Gas #Climate
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This #MaternalHealthAwarenessDay, we’re dropping the trailer for “Before a Breath,” a documentary that weaves together the stories of three mothers who experienced the life-changing loss of a stillbirth and are now striving to make pregnancy safer for other families.
There are about 60 stillbirths in the U.S. every day — more than 20,000 each year. A quarter of those losses may be preventable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBcbzGbkDk
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Keep an eye out for upcoming in-person screenings of “Before a Breath,” which will be released this spring.
Help spread the word by sharing the trailer and learn more about hosting a screening in your community at: https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/before-a-breath-stillbirth-documentary-callout
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This Icebreaker Has Design Problems and a History of Failure. It’s America’s Latest Military Vessel.
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The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012. Under pressure from Congress, the Coast Guard purchased the vessel late last year.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aiviq-icebreaker-military-coast-guard?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Military #Congress #Government #USPolitics #Alaska
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Is a New Mississippi Law Decreasing Jailings of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment? The State Doesn’t Know.
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Community mental health centers, counties and a state agency have reported vastly different numbers of people who spent time in jail while waiting to be treated for serious mental illness.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-law-mental-health-jailings-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
[#]News #Mississippi #MentalHealth #Law #Prison
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