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Text: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Crackdown: Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Tuesday, July 21. 4 p.m. EST. Register at propublica.org/events. Events supported by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation. Image: A woman walks a young boy down a dimly lit hallway with blue walls.
"I would look at [the Microsoft program] as an avenue ... to extremely valuable access if I were an operative. ... We would love to have had access like that." - Harry Coker, former senior executive at the CIA and the National Security Agency
Article excerpt: Morrison pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 120 days on house arrest and five years of probation. She had to surrender her Arkansas occupational therapy license. And she agreed to not work with kids in any professional capacity during her probation. Nobody seemed happy with Morrison’s punishment. But the prosecutor said the state decided the plea deal was the best option to make sure Morrison was held accountable. Under Arkansas law, the state would have to prove substantial physical harm to the victim in order to convict on a charge of permitting abuse to a minor, and juries can judge that differently, said Sonia Hagood, who prosecuted the case for the state. For instance, she said, a recent jury decided not to convict a defendant because the victim did not suffer serious physical injury. As part of her deal, Morrison got to pick where she served her time — the Greene County Detention Center, which is newer than Craighead County’s jail and gave her a private cell. And she’s serving house arrest on her boyfriend’s Missouri ranch, where she can ride horses.
Article excerpt: But several complainants told ProPublica that they did not hear from state officials after sharing their concerns. One teacher said she got no response after she emailed in April that students who transferred to her school had been deprived of a “basic education” at the microschool they previously attended, according to state records. She said first and second graders reported that they had spent the majority of their time playing. Contacted by a ProPublica reporter, she said: “I don’t mind that you are reaching out but it is very concerning and in a way aggravating that I have an investigative reporter reaching out instead of my own state.” She requested that her name not be made public because she works at a different microschool.
Excerpt from article: Known to parents and students as Dr. Tracy, she wasn’t a licensed educator and had never run a school before. Her resume says she has a doctorate in occupational therapy and cognitive neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis. The university said that degree is only in occupational therapy. The Delta Institute didn’t look much like a school — it operated in a white colonial house set down a gravel driveway off a country road, its bedrooms transformed into classrooms. But it had seemed like the answer that parents of students with disabilities, including autism, were desperately seeking. Families said they put their faith in Morrison, who presented herself as an expert in autism and ADHD. “I am the best,” she texted one parent.
Line chart showing the percentage increase in the number of private schools (on the y-axis) from 2022 to 2026. Arkansas and Utah show a dramatic climb from their 2022 baselines, climbing to nearly 120% and just over 100% respectively, while other highlighted states like Iowa, Florida, North Carolina and West Virginia show growth below 30%.
A woman directs a circle of children to physically attack one child at the middle of their circle.
A bar chart shows the number of detention challenges filed each week since January 2025. The number of cases grew somewhat slowly from almost none to just under 1,000 at the end of 2025, then it jumped rapidly to a peak of 2,291 cases per week in February of 2026. Since then, new cases have dropped a bit to 1,774 per week in July 2026.
Text: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Crackdown: Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Tuesday, July 21. 4 p.m. EST. Register at propublica.org/events. Events supported by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation. Image: A woman walks a young boy down a dimly lit hallway with blue walls.
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Two satellite images of the same section of Cadillac Heights, a Detroit neighborhood. The first image is labeled December 2002 and shows houses and businesses. The second is labeled March 2026 and highlights the Kronos Concrete plant among many barren lots.
The Pulitzer Prizes Local Reporting Winner: Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica. Image (right) displays an illustration of a white tow truck and a headline that reads: Gone in 15 days: How the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people's cars.
Map of the U.S. titled “Eligibility for ProPublica's 50 State Initiative.” The 26 states in blue are eligible to submit a project for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. The remaining states in the cross-hatched pattern have already been selected and are not eligible.
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A line chart shows the number of Supreme Court decisions on the merits docket versus the shadow docket from the 2003-04 term to the 2024-25 term. The merits docket decisions trend downward over time, ending at 56 decisions, while the shadow docket decisions rise sharply in the 2018-19 term and surpass the merits docket in the last term at 63 decisions.
Interactive web feature titled: "Does your Oklahoma water system have oil field wastewater wells near public drinking water wells?" The feature prompts the user to "Search for your address, ZIP code or water system name to see how many oil field disposal wells are within a half-mile of a drinking water well." A search bar and a map of the state of Oklahoma is below.
"I'm not a perfect human being. I don't know any perfect victims. ... It's just important for people to understand that we're human." - April Wilkens, Incarcerated domestic abuse survivor
“The criminal justice system is always looking for black-and-white narratives. And as we know from our reporting, there aren’t really black-and-white narratives. There’s a lot of gray.” - Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica and NYT Magazine reporter
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Animation of the earth with red X's indicating the current few number of available CO2 storage sites that then covers the planet with red X's to show how so many more of these sites would be needed to make carbon capture work at scale.
Illustration showing a vast array of specialized freight ships hauling captured CO2.
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770,000+ children are no longer receiving food assistance following the signing of Trump’s domestic policy bill
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A comparison of eight measles virus DNA sequences with 12 genetic letters each. The first sequence is labeled "Texas, May '25," and the rest are labeled as Utah and dated between June '25 to May '26. The sequences for "Texas, May '25" and "Utah, June '25" are identical, and the first five letters of all sequences stay the same. After the "Utah, June '25" sequence, each sequence gains one to two mutations from the previous sequence listed.
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
Class of 2026: Did ICE come near your school? Do you know someone who was detained? Did you participate in a walkout? Tell investigative reporters how the government’s immigration policies impacted your senior year of high school. Here’s how to reach us: Comment on this post WhatsApp us: 917-207-6447 Email us: immigration at propublica dot org
Map of the U.S. titled “Eligibility for ProPublica's 50 State Initiative.” The 26 states in blue are eligible to submit a project for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. The remaining states in the cross-hatched pattern have already been selected and are not eligible.
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"Cancer's hard enough ... And then you have to kind of grapple with how you're gonna pay for care that you need to keep you alive. And to me, that's just a system that's not humane." -David Armstrong, ProPublica healthcare reporter. Listen at propublica dot org slash podcast.
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Text on graphic: ProPublica and Partners Win Two Emmys. Image: From left to right, ProPublica reporter Perla Trevizo, video journalist Gerardo del Valle, and managing editor Ginger Thompson smile and pose on the Emmy Awards red carpet. Trevizo is wearing a white and black polka dot bubble dress; del Valle, who is holding the Emmy Award, is wearing a gray suit with a black tie; and Thompson is wearing a black suit with a dark blue blouse.
Article excerpt: Texas lawmakers responded to ProPublica’s investigations by amending the exceptions in their state laws to make clear that a life-threatening emergency did not need to be “imminent” for physicians to act. The state’s medical board specified that doctors can empty the uterus of any patient with PPROM, and it requires doctors to undergo training to ensure they know that. But Texas’ reforms stopped at its borders. Without a single federal law governing abortion, each of the 19 other states with similar bans were not required or advised to follow suit. That includes Arkansas, which touts its designation as the “most pro-life state in America.” Since its ban took effect, not one person there has been granted a medically necessary abortion, according to the state’s public data. The state’s Republican lawmakers and officials have repeatedly shot down attempts to broaden the law’s exceptions. And when advocates tried to launch a ballot initiative to let voters weigh in, Republicans blocked it over a paperwork error and created restrictions to make those initiatives harder to file.
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