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Illustration by Simone Noronha for ProPublica It was late May, the French Open was on and DraftKings was pushing me into the action.

Illustration by Simone Noronha for ProPublica If you’re one of millions of Americans who have placed an online bet on a sporting event, you know how quickly you can go from celebrating your wins to feeling like the odds are stacked against you.

Samples of diluted cannabis edibles and flowers sit in vials at Kaycha Labs, a cannabis testing facility in Denver that looks for contaminants in marijuana products.

Mountain View Academy in Dandridge, Tennessee Stacy Kranitz for ProPublica Across the country, states have been shuttering their youth prisons as juvenile crime has plummeted and research shows the facilities are not effective at keeping youth out of trou…

The original Star-Spangled Banner, seen in 1969 at what was then the National Museum of History and Technology, now called the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution Archives In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National…

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The Trump administration announced it would stop publishing complaint narratives submitted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Source image: Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto via AP The Supreme Court continues to make consequential rulings in the shadows.

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Robert Warshaw, left, a court-appointed monitor, and Maricopa Sheriff Jerry Sheridan speak before a legally required community outreach meeting in the Sunnyslope neighborhood of Phoenix in 2025.

The halls of Mountain View Academy in Dandridge, Tennessee.

Grace Cary/Getty Images Landmark legislation designed to alert consumers to where their drugs were made is headed for a full Senate vote, but safety experts say the transparency bill has been stripped of two of its most critical provisions.

The Rafael Baez Baseball Academy practices in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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Voting stickers at an election operations facility in Martinez, California, in May Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images This week, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s plans to impose new rules for mail-in voting for the midterm elections in Nove…

Samantha Ramos teaches students in her English language development class at John B.

Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Bettina Trump, at an event at the White House in June.

Thomas Dans in Nuuk, Greenland, last February.

Young players train at a baseball academy in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.

Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson with their wedding party in the Bahamas Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram On May 24, Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his

Twelve-year-old Amelia Johnson was born with a rare genetic anomaly and is nonverbal.

A Hilcorp well site in New Mexico in August 2025 Courtesy of Earthworks The Trump administration is poised to loosen environmental restrictions on oil and gas wells that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane, a highly potent green…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine testify during a Senate committee hearing.

A man stands in the rubble after the collapse of the first World Trade Center tower on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City.

Estadio Quisqueya, home to two Dominican Professional Baseball League teams in Santo Domingo Christopher Gregory-Rivera for ProPublica Major League Baseball teams sign more players from the Dominican Republic each year than any nation besides the U.S.

Mercedes Garcia at the grave of her daughter Daniela Around 4 a.m. on Sept. 21, 2020, Luis David Saba arrived at a desolate stretch of highway along the southern coast of the Dominican Republic.

Chapter 1 On an evening in late 2021, in a pristine baseball complex in central Santo Domingo, a baby-faced 14-year-old outfielder in athletic gear named Belfi Rivera huddled in front of a computer screen.

Mail-in ballots sit in trays before being sorted at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office in San Jose, California, on Oct. 13, 2020.

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Fred Steese, outside the Nevada Supreme Court following his successful pardon hearing in 2017 David Calvert for ProPublica I’d like to tell you about Fred Steese, who died in August of cancer at 62.

Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica Before I joined ProPublica in 2021, I had spent a year writing about a Georgia prison physician named Carlo Musso, one of the rare doctors who’d openly talked about his role in lethal injections.

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Jenifer Chatting and her husband, Luke, at home.

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Federal agents face off with protesters in a Minneapolis neighborhood after a federal agent shot a man from Venezuela while attempting to detain him in January.

An election worker processes mail-in ballots at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during California’s state primary election in June.

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