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  NEW: XpresTest, a company linked to Trump’s sons, got nearly $40 million in government contracts. It has years of experience conducting disease screening in U.S. airports but has never worked with Ebola or provided biosecurity services abroad. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-sons-xwell-xprestest-government-contracts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Health #PublicHealth #Ebola #Trump #Government #Business

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  NEW: As more parents reject a long-standard shot for babies, hospitals are seeing cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding — once considered virtually eliminated. Doctors don’t always recognize or know how to treat the life-threatening condition. https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-texas-lonestar-emergency-room-nicole-malouf?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Hospital #Medicine #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Texas #Emergency

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  NEW: Gov. Greg Abbott spent years trying to make school vouchers a reality in Texas, even pushing to unseat rural Republicans who stood in the way. Some lawmakers believe the effort contributed to his party's historic demise in the midterms. #News #Texas #TX #Education #Congress #TXPol #USPolitics #Schools #Teaching #Parenting https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-school-vouchers-gina-hinojosa?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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  NEW: The Interior Department may open tens of millions of acres of public lands for AI data centers. ProPublica found Trump officials who oversee these lands stand to profit from the growth of the industry. https://www.propublica.org/article/burgum-public-land-data-centers-investments?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #PublicLands #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Government #Ethics #Utah #Nevada

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  NEW: Missouri Voters Just Made It Much Harder for Lawmakers to Overturn Citizen-Led Initiatives For years, Missouri Republicans worked to undo or restrict voter-approved laws and amendments. In passing Amendment 6, voters have not only protected the ballot initiative process but also dramatically strengthened their power over the legislature. https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-voter-ballot-initiatives-amendment-6?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post...

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  NEW: Trump’s State Department Is Giving $1 Million to Controversial Group to Study Crimes Against White South Africans --- The new award, the administration’s latest show of support for the Afrikaner cause, comes after it cut human rights funding to nations in crisis. One former diplomat called the move “offensive.” https://www.propublica.org/article/afriforum-grant-trump-white-south-africans?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #SouthAfrica #Trump #F...

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  NEW: Despite a legal requirement to do so, Vermont never audited a water project that’s cost nearly a billion. “I find it amazing that they haven’t done the audit and that somebody in the legislature did not hold them to account,” said a former lawmaker. https://www.propublica.org/article/vermont-clean-water-act-champlain-audit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Vermont #Environment #Water #Lake #Pollution #Law

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  I Was There to Document the Aftermath of Deadly Flooding. Then, It Started Raining. --- Three people died in Ruidoso, New Mexico, last year when floods swept through the area. As the mayor prioritized tourism after the flood recovery, first responders said they weren’t equipped. Our visual journalist documented the unfolding story. https://www.propublica.org/article/ruidoso-new-mexico-floods-fire?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #NewMexico #Flood...

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  NEW: ProPublica found that over 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration agents. Forty Democratic lawmakers are now asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain why Americans have been held against their will. https://www.propublica.org/article/american-citizens-ice-detention-congress-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Immigration #ICE #DHS #Immigrant #USPolitics #Congress #Government #Law

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  NEW: The Trump administration has initiated a string of unprecedented actions to assert more federal control over elections. While courts have thwarted most of the plans, voting experts remain concerned about potential problems at the polls. https://www.propublica.org/article/five-voting-disruptions-midterm-election?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #Election #Midterms #Elections #Vote #Voting #Trump #USPolitics #Democracy

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  NEW: Ahead of next week’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished institutional guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 presidential election. Here’s what to know. https://www.propublica.org/article/midterm-election-propublica-reporting-findings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Trump #Elections #Midterms #Vote #Voting #Democracy #USPolitics #MidtermElections

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  How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy --- A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promises back. https://www.propublica.org/article/carbon-capture-storage-fossil-fuel-sally-benson?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Climate #ClimateChan...

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  Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents ProPublica has cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent detaining a citizen during the current Trump administration. Explore our database to learn more about each incident. https://projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/list?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #ICE #DHS #Immigration #Trump #Law #Data #Research #Journalism #Minnesota...

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  NEW on “Paper Trail”: President Trump claims hundreds of thousands of people who are not U.S. citizens have been illegally voting in our elections. His own unprecedented efforts to root out these voters show otherwise, our investigation found. Listen to our latest episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/homeland-security-investigations-noncitizen-voter-fraud-cases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Elections #Vote #Voting #Midterms #USPolitic...

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  NEW: A top U.S. official endorsed a key policy change on hormone replacement therapies while holding at least $115,000 in stock in a company that provides access to menopause treatments. Ethics experts called it an “obvious conflict of interest.” https://www.propublica.org/article/hhs-alicia-jackson-menopause-treatment-policy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Health #Women #Ethics #Conflict #Government #Business

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  NEW: Conservative powerbroker Cleta Mitchell has raised a grassroots army to transform American voting systems and worked closely with the administration to enact her plans. No one besides Trump himself has done more to overhaul elections. https://www.propublica.org/article/cleta-mitchell-elections-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Politics #USPolitics #Law #Trump #Election #Vote #Voting #Midterms

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  NEW: Citation Oil & Gas is named more often than any other company in Oklahoma’s database of oil field pollution incidents and violations — listed more than 1,000 times over the past decade. The state’s oil regulator has never punished the company. https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-pollution-citation-violations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Oklahoma #Oil #Gas #Pollution #Data #Regulation #Environment

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  NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud. https://www.propublica.org/article/zohar-pinhasi-monstercloud-ransomware-indictment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Florida #Cybersecurity #Tech #Technology #Law #Data #Hacking

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  NEW: Officer Jaron Alexander says he didn’t come back to Ingram, Texas, to help deport his neighbors. But one year after joining ICE’s 287(g) program, his department has handed over the equivalent of 10% of the town. https://www.propublica.org/article/deportations-ingram-texas-287g-jaron-alexander?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #ICE #Police #Immigration #Immigrant #Deportation #Texas

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  NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade. https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-mink-farm-utah-human-risk?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #BirdFlu #H5N1 #Utah #Pandemic #PublicHealth #Health #Science

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  NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from USPS’ cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected. https://www.propublica.org/article/mail-ballot-delays-postal-service-midterms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Data #USPS #Vote #Voting #Election #Midterms #Rural #USPolitics

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  NEW: The Trump administration committed the U.S. to taking a large stake in a Venezuelan company, some of whose owners and investors are shielded from public view. The exact details of the agreement over oil fields had remained unclear — until now. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-venezuela-oil-agreement-terms?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Trump #Venezuela #Oil #Gas #Economy #Politics #Geopolitics #Business

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  How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation --- An FBI anti-corruption team launched an investigation into whether South Carolina’s most powerful members of Congress were involved in a bribery scheme, ProPublica found. After Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, the investigation went dark. https://www.propublica.org/article/navatek-lindsey-graham-jim-clyburn-fbi-anti-corruption-bribery?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-pos...

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  NEW - DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends. https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #DHS #Voting #Vote #Election #Midterms #Trump #USPolitics #Cybersecurity

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  NEW: Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, spent millions of dollars drafting separate plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Neither plan took into account how the construction of three new data centers could upend climate goals in both places. https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-texas-new-mexico-greenhouse-gas-emissions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #NewMexico #ElPaso #Texas #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #DataCente...

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  NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it. https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamp-snap-benefits-theft-skimmers-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #SNAP #Crime #Theft #Fraud #Congress #Government #Poverty #Hunger

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  NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol. A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall. The tribe was warned: Do not interfere. https://www.propublica.org/article/tohono-oodham-nation-arizona-border-wall?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Indigenous #Native #Arizona #Trump #BorderPatrol #Border

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  NEW: Amid Mounting War Casualties, Pete Hegseth “Defunded and Impeded” Efforts to Protect Civilians, Lawmakers Say Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law. https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-trump-war-civilian-casualties-elizabeth-warren-pentagon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=soci...

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  NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-travel-security-costs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #KenPaxton #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Security #Travel #Money #Ethics

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  American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk --- Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products. https://www.propublica.org/article/raw-milk-ban-children-pediatricians-health-safety-parents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Health #Food #Safety #Regulat...