5+ hour, 22+ 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,…...

25+ min 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…...

1+ day, 5+ 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…...

2+ day, 5+ 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…...

3+ day, 1+ 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…...

6+ day, 5+ 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....

1+ week, 5+ 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…...

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…...

1+ week, 2+ 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…...

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…...