2+ hour, 21+ min ago  (1001+ words) The call came from a number I didn't recognize, with a Canadian area code. A steely voice on the other end of the line greeted me, identifying himself as an official with the Canadian military. He had a question: Had…...

11+ hour, 36+ min ago  (724+ words) The Justice Department said Friday that it would move forward on a proposed $68 million settlement with a Texas land developer it had accused of preying on Hispanic residents, despite a judge's concerns that the agreement did not do enough to…...

15+ hour, 21+ min ago  (561+ words) Crackdown on Student Threats Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation this week to fix the state's controversial threats of mass violence law, which had resulted in children being charged with felonies over jokes and misunderstandings. Gov. Bill Lee is expected to sign…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1282+ words) Co-published with The Texas Tribune In December 2023, the U. S. Justice Department sued a Texas land developer it accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents into predatory mortgages, a landmark case for the Biden administration. "Our goal at the end…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1773+ words) Renault Shirley remembers the first time he was asked to falsify billing reports for Kentucky's largest drug rehab center. He had just returned from a church service in 2023 where the company's founder and owner, a charismatic Christian from Eastern Kentucky,…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (738+ words) The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company's management, has generated a painful litany of woes. Now, more than a year after the company filed for bankruptcy in January 2025, a new layer…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (807+ words) More than 400, 000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July " the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin " as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (546+ words) Pro Publica reviewed an audio recording of the event obtained by the nonpartisan watchdog group Documented. Hild and Skinner had come to the session with a ready-made fix: a set of pre-written bills and plenty of funding. "Think really hard…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (491+ words) As a cybersecurity reporter at Pro Publica, much of my work over the past two years has focused on how the federal government and its IT contractors, like Microsoft, have navigated major technological transitions. The one now in the news…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1624+ words) Just under three years ago, the Food and Drug Administration deemed 19 peptide drugs too unsafe to be dispensed by compounding pharmacies, which mix components of approved drugs to create bespoke medication for people who have trouble taking commonly available products....