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“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think ... in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.”

Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” ConductProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.www.propublica.org

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. From the archives:

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy BankRoth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.www.propublica.org

As U.S.-Canada relations worsen, Michigan’s Sault area has lost an estimated $62.7M due to decreased crossings. It’s bewildering, a state senator says. He recalls Canadians helping locals fix the grid after a storm: “This is our best friend in the entire world.”

As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a VoiceUnder an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...www.propublica.org

A new AI model from Anthropic identified major cybersecurity weaknesses in more than a dozen popular Microsoft products, including Teams, Copilot and SharePoint. “The bug apocalypse has fully descended upon us,” said one cybersecurity expert.

Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and...www.propublica.org

Kentucky’s largest recipient of state funds under Gov. Andy Beshear’s Medicaid policy was Addiction Recovery Care. Amid an ongoing FBI investigation, the company recently reached a $16 million settlement with the DOJ over fraud allegations. w/ @kentucky.com

Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed.In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did th...www.propublica.org

1/ What’s going on with America’s farms and food? Join us for our next Inside the Big Story event, a virtual discussion about America’s farms, how our food is made and where regulations are failing to keep workers and consumers safe. Members, check your email for the invite 📩

The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...www.propublica.org

MAGA influencer and Trump appointee Nick Adams’ FLAG nonprofit has raised much of its money through a sweepstakes operation that has promised donors a chance to win $1,000,000 — a prize FLAG’s records show no evidence of ever paying.

An Arkansas private school owner … • had no prior experience running a school • forced her students to scrub floors as punishment • urged a group of kids to physically attack their classmate She’s now gone. The state still funds that school. w/ @arktimes.bsky.social

This Private School Had Students Scrub Floors and Attack a Fellow Classmate. The State Still Funds It.One of the few requirements for Arkansas private schools is that they have an American flag and a flagpole. But millions in state funds go to the largely unmonitored schools while complaints about saf...www.propublica.org

After a privately funded border wall in South Texas faced legal issues and claims of shoddy construction, President Donald Trump denounced the project. His administration has handed the company behind it billions to build more of the wall. (Pub. May w/ Big Bend Sentinel & @texastribune.org)

The Trump Administration Is Facing Scrutiny for How It’s Handing Out Billion-Dollar Border Wall ContractsA new lawsuit alleges the Trump administration awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to two firms without “genuine competitive opportunities.” One of the chosen firms has faced legal iss...www.propublica.org

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. Use our database (just updated!) to more easily search these organizations’ finances 👇

527 Explorer — ProPublicaEvery year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds these organizations and how they’re spending their mone...projects.propublica.org

Red tape. Low reimbursement rates. Delayed payments. We heard from more than 500 psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists who each faced a moment when they decided they had to leave their insurance network. (Published Aug. 2024)

Why I Left the NetworkThose who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...projects.propublica.org

NEW: California schools will soon be able to easily search the names of bus drivers, janitors and other school support staff to see if they have substantiated claims of misconduct. Why hasn’t a similar system for teachers succeeded? with @kqednews.kqed.org

For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California’s Warning System for Teacher MisconductCalifornia is set to launch a database for school support staff, such as bus drivers and janitors, with substantiated claims of egregious misconduct. Setting up a similar system for public school teac...www.propublica.org

NEW: Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with President Trump intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sign of relief.

As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a VoiceUnder an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...www.propublica.org

Here’s how some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures use a decades-old legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care. (Published Dec. 2024)

How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare TaxesSome of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.www.propublica.org

Every other day, 83-year-old Marilyn Tewa of the Hopi Tribe loads buckets into her pickup and drives 5 miles to haul water. “That’s what keeps us alive,” Tewa said. Four states stand in the way of a deal to give her community water.

Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.www.propublica.org

Federal judges say they are losing faith in the Justice Department’s trustworthiness, legal scholars say. “Judges simply don't believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys,” one former federal judge said.

Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” ConductProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.www.propublica.org

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said. (Published Sept. 2025)

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social SecurityDOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...www.propublica.org

Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor. In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: https://propub.li/3S3sflq (Published March)

“Everyone is of the opinion that, whether they find anything or not, they are going to continue” to pursue this, one source said about the political pressure to find fraud in the seized mail-in ballots.

FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In BallotsAs part of President Trump’s continued push to discredit the results of the 2020 election, his administration has considered using AI technology to scrutinize tens of thousands of ballots seized in Fu...www.propublica.org