Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor (www.propublica.org)
Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor (www.propublica.org)
Michigan Bottlers Still Get Free Water, Despite Governor’s Tough Talk (www.propublica.org)
When Gretchen Whitmer campaigned for Michigan governor in 2018, she took aim at Michigan’s bottled water industry — and the state policy that gave it unfettered access to free water....
[opinion] Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree. (www.propublica.org)
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Michigan Bottlers Still Get Free Water, Despite Governor’s Tough Talk (www.propublica.org)
“When it comes to Nestlé, I don’t believe that they should be taking the water out of our ground and selling it, and I want to stop that,” [Gov Gretchen] Whitmer said in a gubernatorial debate. […] And her campaign water plan emphasized the disparities that set off the controversy in the first place, noting that some...
“No Schoolers”: How Illinois’ Hands-Off Approach to Homeschooling Leaves Children at Risk (www.propublica.org)
What Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial May Indicate About a Second Trump Term (www.propublica.org)
What Idaho’s Republican Primary Tells Us About America’s Culture Wars (www.propublica.org)
An Illinois School District’s Reliance on Police to Ticket Students Is Discriminatory, Civil Rights Complaint Says (www.propublica.org)
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign (www.propublica.org)
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign (www.propublica.org)
Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company....
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign (www.propublica.org)
Witness tampering? I think yes!
Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign (www.propublica.org)
How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (www.propublica.org)
New York Education Department Hindered an Abuse Investigation at Boarding School for Autistic Youth (www.propublica.org)
New York Education Department Hindered an Abuse Investigation at Boarding School for Autistic Youth (www.propublica.org)
In a strongly worded rebuke, a New York judge has ordered the state Education Department to cooperate with an investigation into abuse and neglect at a pricey residential school that draws students with autism from across the country....
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets (www.propublica.org)
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Plastic, Plastic Everywhere — Even at the UN’s “Plastic Free” Conference (www.propublica.org)
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets (www.propublica.org)
Ken Paxton Has Used Consumer Protection Law to Target These Organizations (www.propublica.org)
Ken Paxton Has Used Consumer Protection Law to Target These Organizations (www.propublica.org)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has repeatedly used the state’s powerful consumer protection laws to investigate organizations whose work conflicts in some way with his political views or the views of his conservative base, an analysis by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found....
How an Alabama Town Staved Off School Resegregation (www.propublica.org)
Maine’s Health Department Rarely Investigates When Residents Wander Away From Their Care Facilities (www.propublica.org)
This Mississippi Hospital Transfers Some Patients to Jail to Await Mental Health Treatment (www.propublica.org)
Roughly 200 people in DeSoto County were jailed annually during the civil commitment process, most without criminal charges, between 2021 and 2023. About a fifth of them were picked up at local hospitals, according to an estimate based on a review of Sheriff’s Department records by Mississippi Today and ProPublica. The...
This Mississippi Hospital Transfers Some Patients to Jail to Await Mental Health Treatment (www.propublica.org)
The practice appears to be unusual even in Mississippi, where lawmakers recently acted to limit when people can be jailed as they go through the civil commitment process. Sheriff’s departments in about a third of the state’s counties, including those that appear to jail such people most frequently, responded to questions...