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Reporting Highlights Suing the Poor: At one community health center in Kansas, many patients sued were uninsured and made so little money they qualified for discounted…

Chapter 4“It Was All About Being the Only Hospital”Moore didn’t stay long in Albany. He knew the fight to overcome the competition from Palmyra would always…

May 27-29, 2022Just a little more than 24 hours had passed when Mrs. Parker realized that word about her husband’s condition had gotten out. She received…

The chemical industry finally got its wish. Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk…

For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. President Donald Trump branded one…

Credit: Katie Campbell/ProPublica, Ross Landenberger for ProPublica and Alyssa Pointer for ProPublicaCredit: Katie Campbell/ProPublica, courtesy of Doretha Moultrie, Almudena Toral/ProPublica and Alyssa Pointer for ProPublicaWhy were…

Ours is a time of provably wrong claims, vociferously stated.  Gas prices are headed to $2 a gallon, President Donald Trump claimed. (Not true — gas…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been one of the most vociferous defenders of President Donald Trump’s expansive use of executive authority, withholding billions of dollars in…

There were so many details in the women’s reports to law enforcement that were hard for me to read. That they were just little girls when…

Reporting Highlights Powerful Friends: Well-placed allies, from U.S. senators to county officials, give ranchers leverage against regulators. They’ve sometimes pushed for fewer consequences for rule breakers.…