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They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud.
3+ hour, 18+ min 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,…...
The Alarm Bell: Arizona's Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation
1+ day, 3+ 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…...
Economic Civil War: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability
2+ day, 3+ 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…...
The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales.
2+ day, 23+ 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…...
RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls "Illegal." Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.
6+ day, 3+ hour 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....
Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U. S. Southern Border
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (460+ words) Our reporting started, like much of our work, in a spreadsheet. As I parsed through federal court data, I noticed something odd: Within months of President Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025, prosecutors began filing obscure charges related to trespassing on…...
The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules
1+ week, 1+ day ago (687+ words) The Trump administration official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution was an unnamed author of key industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist. In his current…...
Trump's Justice Department Dropped 23, 000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1742+ words) In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent…...
A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1777+ words) Doris Coulson remained spirited even as her illness progressed " watching cooking shows on TV, working crossword puzzles and wheeling herself down the hallways of her nursing home to show off her granddaughter when she came to visit. Coulson had been…...
Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1168+ words) Co-published with The Salt Lake Tribune For years, Utah allowed government officials to do something other states banned: ask a person who reports a sexual assault to take a polygraph test. That will change soon. Earlier this month, state lawmakers…...