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A federal grand jury indicted Zohar Pinhasi last month for allegedly defrauding clients of his ransomware data recovery business, MonsterCloud.

Jaron Alexander, of Ingram, Texas, is one of more than 29,000 local law enforcement officers on the front lines of the Trump administration's deportation campaign.

Debit and credit cards have long used microchips, which protect against skimming.

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A rescued mink from a Utah fur farm Julie Leopo for ProPublica The strain of bird flu that’s ripped through American barns for the last four years has killed two people who caught it from sick animals.

Lonnie Rouse was diagnosed with a neurological disorder that medical experts attributed to exposure to chemicals during his work cleaning up the Hanford nuclear site in Washington.

Jacque Laird, elections administrator for Adams County, Washington, prepares ballot envelopes for delivery to voters at a third-party processing center that sorts mail, Direct Mail Enterprises, in Spokane.

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Cannabis samples in the process of testing at Kaycha Labs in Denver Stephen Swofford/The Denver Gazette The agency charged with regulating Colorado’s first-in-the-nation legal recreational marijuana market potentially put consumers at risk of using contam…

Reese Drive, crossing the Rio Ruidoso in New Mexico, lies near where the body of a child, Sebastian Trotter, was found.

A Ruidoso Fire Department station less than a half mile from the Riverview RV Park.

Alejandro Betancourt, a 46-year-old Venezuelan energy baron, is the key figure in a historic oil deal with the Trump administration.

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PACs targeted former West Virginia Delegate Vernon Criss following his proposal to rein in state spending on school vouchers.

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Since September 2025, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia to demand their unredacted voter rolls.

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Margaret Flatley for ProPublica Some 86 years ago, Missouri voters enshrined a system for selecting top judges that would remove political influence from the courts.

They were victims, not abusers.

Meta is building a massive data center on the northeast edge of El Paso, Texas, on the New Mexico border.

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A border patrol vehicle drives past the Tadai Me:i prayer camp on the Tohono O’odham nation on Sept. 5.

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DraftKings sent extensive promotional offers to ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson while he was testing the company’s safety guardrails for problem gamblers.

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A 12-year-old child opens the curtains of a hotel room in Tempe, Arizona, where she, her mother and four siblings were staying earlier this year while experiencing homelessness.

Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica Last year, many of America’s largest health insurers vowed to reduce their use of prior authorization — the extra layer of approval insurers require before covering a medical expense.

Left image: A scene from an Amateur Athletic Union-affiliated volleyball game in 2026.

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Bottles of raw milk for sale Sarahbeth Maney for ProPublica The nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of unpasteurized milk and other raw dairy products, according to a…

Austin Davis, center, a 26-year-old poet and advocate for homeless people, has become a point of last resort for families who are experiencing homelessness in the Phoenix area.

The death chamber in Huntsville, Texas Joe Raedle/Getty Images Over the course of two hours, witnesses watched and listened as Christa Pike cried, whimpered and snored through Tennessee’s attempt to execute her.

Experts have long warned that immigration dragnets and the erosion of civil rights for immigrants will inevitably result in the erosion of rights for citizens.

Bankrolled by ProPublica, reporter Jake Pearson tested online gambling guardrails by mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler for 10 weeks.

The only requirement to open a private school in Arkansas is displaying a flag and flagpole, so the reporting team visited the local flag shop in Little Rock.

The Flying Monkey disposal well in Enid, Oklahoma.

In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen.

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Ever imagine yourself as a private school operator?

Andrea Bell, director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, at a groundbreaking ceremony in 2025 Oregon Housing and Community Services As head of Oregon’s housing finance agency, Andrea Bell oversees a lot of taxpayer money.

Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune A little-known effort to bring an artificial intelligence tool into Texas public schools began about a year ago, with the help of the state’s top education official, Mike Morath.

Nearly identical headstones mark the burial of brothers from Owyhee County, Idaho, who died in 2022, 2024 and 2025.

Courtesy of Emily Marris Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence to give to California health and food safety investigato…

Amy Miller, a lawyer for the advocacy group Disability Rights Nebraska, puts away voter registration material at the organization’s office in Lincoln.

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