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Linda McMahon, the nation’s secretary of education, says public schools are failing.  In November, she promised a “hard reset” of the system in which more than…

In late 2024, Nimrod Shimrony, an emergency medical technician for the New York City Fire Department, tried to end his life. After completing an intensive outpatient…

Paul Windle for “Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to ‘Munch’ Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health.” Art direction by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photography by Sarahbeth Maney for…

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on…

Despite a slew of reforms enacted last year to rein in the practices of towing companies, more needs to be done to protect consumers whose cars…

Ethylene oxide was once considered an unremarkable pollutant. The colorless gas seeped from relatively few industrial facilities and commanded little public attention.  All that changed in…

Reporting Highlights No Agreement on Standards: Drug test results are often based on discretionary standards. The level of drugs at which a test is considered positive…

What happened: Judge Jennifer Green, who oversees the Maricopa Superior Court’s criminal department, has quietly rolled out a program to facilitate quicker resolutions to death penalty…

President Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing…

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, ProPublica’s reporters set out to cover how his second administration would reshape the government and…