3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1643+ words) In mid-January, an unassuming man in khakis and a button-down shirt walked to a wooden lectern at a school board meeting in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Most chairs in the audience were empty. The man, Tim Smith, was the only…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (647+ words) This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation's only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. I had asked some of the parents to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (820+ words) Co-published with The Denver Gazette Colorado marijuana manufacturers would no longer be allowed to choose which product samples they send for mandatory lab testing under a new regulatory proposal discussed at a policy forum on Friday. Instead, the state's Marijuana…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (620+ words) Officials at the U.S. Forest Service knew gear worn by wildland firefighters contained potentially dangerous "forever chemicals" years before the agency publicly acknowledged the issue, according to internal correspondence obtained by ProPublica. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, have…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (846+ words) Co-published with The Texas Tribune The Trump administration's push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal, more than were filed under the last three administrations combined " including President…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1343+ words) Minutes after a federal agent shot and killed a Mexican immigrant in a Chicago suburb last September, a group of police officers stood on the sidewalk trying to figure out the answer to a question of protocol: Who would investigate…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (942+ words) For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state's medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient " guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1030+ words) In the summer of 2019, a crew leader tasked with overseeing farm laborers sent them to harvest corn in a field where they weren't authorized to work " and where there wasn't adequate protection from the sweltering sun. One of them died…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1264+ words) For months, the Trump administration has justified its dramatic midnight raid on a Chicago apartment complex by saying that it had intelligence that the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But officials have provided no…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1543+ words) In July of 1968, Samuel Bowers sat down in his office with fingers poised over his typewriter keys, thoughts filled with fury. As founder and imperial wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he cut a charismatic figure,…...