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Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.
This is our #4 most-read story of 2025:
This is our #4 most-read story of 2025:
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
(Published November)
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
January 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
www.propublica.org
December 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The #CoinLaundry’s deep dive into the ways criminals exploit the mechanisms and vulnerabilities of decentralized finance comes at a critical time in the global debate over how to stanch the flow of dirty money in cryptocurrency.
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About The Coin Laundry investigation
The investigation reveals how crypto companies profited from crime while victims were financially ruined.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.
Here’s how to use it.
Here’s how to use it.
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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BREAKING: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies at 84.
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies at 84
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at age 84. The hard-charging conservative became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
BREAKING: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies at 84.
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The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
www.propublica.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
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Several applicants who spoke with The Intercept were children of immigrants or had close friends and family members in immigrant communities.
Who Wants to Join ICE? We Went to Utah to Find Out.
At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.
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September 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Several applicants who spoke with The Intercept were children of immigrants or had close friends and family members in immigrant communities.
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I hope every single one of these assholes rots in prison
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I hope every single one of these assholes rots in prison
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Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
September 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.
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1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C.
We’ve got the records 👇
Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
We’ve got the records 👇
Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
September 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C.
We’ve got the records 👇
Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
We’ve got the records 👇
Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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2/ As the story also makes clear, having two such mortgages is not on its own evidence of wrongdoing. But it is a standard the Trump administration has been using to go after its political foes.
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
www.propublica.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
2/ As the story also makes clear, having two such mortgages is not on its own evidence of wrongdoing. But it is a standard the Trump administration has been using to go after its political foes.
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For years, the FDA quietly allowed substandard foreign manufacturers to ship drugs to the U.S. from factories the agency had officially banned.
We compiled a list of the drugs and their makers 👇
We compiled a list of the drugs and their makers 👇
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no…
www.propublica.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
For years, the FDA quietly allowed substandard foreign manufacturers to ship drugs to the U.S. from factories the agency had officially banned.
We compiled a list of the drugs and their makers 👇
We compiled a list of the drugs and their makers 👇
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White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States. n.pr/4187cQe
What's behind the Trump administration's immigration memes?
White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States. n.pr/4187cQe
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Datashare, the document research platform behind the Pandora Papers and other groundbreaking global investigations, has been relaunched with a new streamlined design.
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Datashare redesign makes research tool more powerful, more accessible for all - ICIJ
Datashare, the document research platform behind the Pandora Papers and other groundbreaking global investigations, has been relaunched with a new streamlined design.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Datashare, the document research platform behind the Pandora Papers and other groundbreaking global investigations, has been relaunched with a new streamlined design.
Catch up with the updates:
Catch up with the updates:
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"ProPublica... read through government memos, cables and emails, many of which have not been reported previously. The records and interviews shed light on why Biden and his top advisers refused to adjust his policy even as new evidence of Israeli abuses emerged." www.propublica.org/article/bide...
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
www.propublica.org
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"ProPublica... read through government memos, cables and emails, many of which have not been reported previously. The records and interviews shed light on why Biden and his top advisers refused to adjust his policy even as new evidence of Israeli abuses emerged." www.propublica.org/article/bide...
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Pete Hegseth Faces Difficult Confirmation Hearing
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January 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pete Hegseth Faces Difficult Confirmation Hearing
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NEW: All year, Biden set red lines for Israel in Gaza.
Israel repeatedly crossed them.
There were no serious consequences.
Brett Murphy spent the last year examining how, why and what the costs were, for Palestinians, and American credibility.
www.propublica.org/article/bide...
Israel repeatedly crossed them.
There were no serious consequences.
Brett Murphy spent the last year examining how, why and what the costs were, for Palestinians, and American credibility.
www.propublica.org/article/bide...
January 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
NEW: All year, Biden set red lines for Israel in Gaza.
Israel repeatedly crossed them.
There were no serious consequences.
Brett Murphy spent the last year examining how, why and what the costs were, for Palestinians, and American credibility.
www.propublica.org/article/bide...
Israel repeatedly crossed them.
There were no serious consequences.
Brett Murphy spent the last year examining how, why and what the costs were, for Palestinians, and American credibility.
www.propublica.org/article/bide...
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After Trump proposed a TikTok ban in 2020, billionaire TikTok investor Jeff Yass gave millions to anti-Biden campaigns. Trump later announced his support for a deal in which U.S. firms would buy stakes in ByteDance, with Yass’ partner among the proposed members of a new board.
(Published 2022)
(Published 2022)
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election…
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January 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
After Trump proposed a TikTok ban in 2020, billionaire TikTok investor Jeff Yass gave millions to anti-Biden campaigns. Trump later announced his support for a deal in which U.S. firms would buy stakes in ByteDance, with Yass’ partner among the proposed members of a new board.
(Published 2022)
(Published 2022)
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Prospect Medical announced -- at 11:02 p.m. on Saturday -- that it's filed for bankruptcy. At @propublica, we've been writing since 2020 about how private equity and Prospect's founders sucked hundreds of millions out of the troubled hospital company. www.propublica.org/article/inve...
Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances
Prospect Medical, which mostly serves low-income patients, has suffered a litany of problems: broken elevators, dirty surgical gear, bedbugs and more. Its owners, including Leonard Green & Partners an...
www.propublica.org
January 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Prospect Medical announced -- at 11:02 p.m. on Saturday -- that it's filed for bankruptcy. At @propublica, we've been writing since 2020 about how private equity and Prospect's founders sucked hundreds of millions out of the troubled hospital company. www.propublica.org/article/inve...