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Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better—and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.
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Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better—and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.
Hannah Dreier ProPublica Sep 2018 35min Permalink
Minara Akhter came to America with uncertainty and hope. Then her husband, a Muslim religious leader, was murdered in a suspected hate crime.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Sep 2018 15min Permalink
From a new Supreme Court ruling to a census question about citizenship, the campaign against illegal registration is thriving. But when the top proponent was challenged in a Kansas courtroom to prove that such fraud is rampant, the claims went up in smoke.
Jessica Huseman ProPublica Jun 2018 25min Permalink
How one of New York’s major trash haulers does business.
Kiera Feldman ProPublica Jun 2018 30min Permalink
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
The trail and conviction of Joe Bryan.
Was the bloodstain-pattern analysis at the center of the prosecution’s case really solid forensic evidence?
Pamela Colloff ProPublica May 2018 Permalink
The murder of Mickey Bryan stunned her small Texas town. Then her husband was charged with killing her. Did he do it, or had there been a terrible mistake?
Pamela Colloff ProPublica May 2018 45min Permalink
Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Apr 2018 20min Permalink
How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right’s most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Apr 2018 30min Permalink
The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
Hannah Dreier ProPublica Apr 2018 30min Permalink
As it scrambled to compete, the tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias.
Peter Gosselin, Ariana Tobin ProPublica Mar 2018 35min Permalink
What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.
Tim Golden, Sebastian Rotella ProPublica Feb 2018 Permalink
“We know we down in this shithole together.”
Kiera Feldman ProPublica Jan 2018 40min Permalink
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. He would wait 1,266 days in an adult jail.
Sarah Smith ProPublica Dec 2017 30min Permalink
Not education. Not income. Not even being an expert on racial disparities in health care.
Nina Martin, Renee Montagne ProPublica Dec 2017 35min Permalink
How cops use arcane pedestrian laws to racially profile people in Jacksonville, Florida.
Topher Sanders, Kate Rabinowitz ProPublica Nov 2017 20min Permalink
Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.
Paul Kiel, Hannah Fresques ProPublica Sep 2017 25min Permalink
A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction.
Megan Rose ProPublica Sep 2017 30min Permalink
Three years ago, the Republican-led House was close to reaching a compromise on immigration. This is the story of what went wrong.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Sep 2016 30min Permalink
An investigation into how the American military disposes of its waste.
Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica Jul 2017 40min Permalink
How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica Jun 2017 30min Permalink
Fred Steese served more than 20 years in prison for the murder of a Vegas circus performer even though evidence proved he didn’t do it. When the truth came to light, he was offered a confounding deal: he could go free, but only if he agreed to remain a convicted killer.
Megan Rose ProPublica May 2017 35min Permalink
Baltimore-area renters complain about a property owner they say is neglectful and litigious. Few know their landlord is the president’s son-in-law.
Alec MacGillis ProPublica May 2017 25min Permalink
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. The story of a neonatal nurse helps illustrate why.
Nina Martin, Renee Montagne ProPublica May 2017 35min Permalink
One of the most dangerous companies in the U.S. took advantage of immigrant workers. Then, when they got hurt or fought back, it used America’s laws against them.
Michael Grabell ProPublica May 2017 25min Permalink
An investigation into “a subtler form of redlining.”
Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, Surya Mattu ProPublica Apr 2017 20min Permalink