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Gov't Defended the Baby Formula Makers. Kids Paid the Price

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. LOPBURI, Thailand — When Gustun Aunlamai arrived at school at age 4, he was so overweight that his teacher worried he’d have trouble breathing during naptime. His arms and legs w...
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Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science to Decide 911 Callers Were Liars

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This story contains audio clips of 911 calls where people in distress describe traumatic deaths in...
This story contains audio clips of 911 calls where people in distress describe traumatic deaths in sometimes graphic detail. It also mentions a suicide attempt. Text STORY to 917-905-1223 to get the next installment in this series as soon as it publishes. Standard messaging rates apply. ProPublica is a nonprofit new...
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How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America's Illegal Marijuana Market

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was produced in partnership with The Frontier. Additional funding for this story was provided by The Pulitzer Center. It seemed an unlikely spot for a showdown betwe...
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Peter Thiel Turned a Roth IRA into a $5B Tax-Free Piggy Bank (2021)

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You contribute $1,000 to a Roth IRA. Then, in a scenario that only a handful of...
You contribute $1,000 to a Roth IRA. Then, in a scenario that only a handful of people have access to, you use that money to buy 1 million shares in a new startup company for just a fraction of a penny per share. A few years later, that company goes public and the value of each share rises to $50. Now your Roth IRA...
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What happens when prosecutors offer opposing versions of the truth?

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When Baltimore police arrested Keyon Paylor in 2014, one of two things was true. Either Paylor hid a gun that the police found, or the police planted the gun and framed Paylor. T...
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The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry's Slow Death

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In the 165 years since the first American oil well struck black gold, the industry has punched millions of holes i...
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Philips hid CPAP machine problems from FDA and patients for years

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Interested in learning more about this investigation? Join us for an upcoming virtual conversation. Register today t...
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Lawmakers Seeking to Outlaw Rent Price Fixing Reported by Propublica

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A group of senators are set to introduce legislation Tuesday that would make it illegal for landlords to use algorithms to artificially inflate the price of rent or reduce the su...
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Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2B WhatsApp Users

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Clarification, Sept. 8, 2021: A previous version of this story caused unintended confusion about the extent to which WhatsApp examines its users’ messages and whether it breaks t...
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Supreme Connections

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The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a...
The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Governme...
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Chemicals of "Concern" Found in Philips Breathing Machines

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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On the morning of June 14, 2021, Dr. Radhika Breaden hurried to a computer in her hushed sleep disorders clinic and tried not to panic. The 52-year-old physician treated patients...
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Find out who owns a nursing home with our Nursing Home Inspect tool

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