Following an investigation by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica, Gallup-McKinley County says it cut down on long-term suspensions for Indigenous children and implemented policy reforms. But the state has not made it easy to verify these claims.
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Cambridge, MA, has ended single family zoning in an effort to increase the number of housing units.
Trump is reported to have called Vladimir Putin in order to start talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
2 trans high school students in NH are suing the Trump administration over the executive order banning trans athletes from girls' sports.
What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
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Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.
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🔎Museum Gold Heist Robbers Arrested | Museum DEI Initiatives Explained & Canned | Looted Objects Confessions | US Says AI Art Cannot Be Copyrighted | Royal Latrines, Stormy Socials & Ripped Scottish Pants | Mona Lisa Goes Solo | More Museum News http://www. globalmuseum.org #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews #news #museumjobs #jobs #artgallery
"Australia’s Department of the Treasury has found that Microsoft’s Copilot can easily deliver return on investment, but staff exposed to the AI assistant came away from the experience less confident it will help them at work."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/australian_treasury_copilot_pilot_assessment/
How a Risky State Investment in Seafood Cost Alaskans Millions and Left a Fishing Town in Crisis
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Leaders of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which pays residents annual dividends and finances government services, wanted to invest in Alaska companies. There were warning signs ahead of the bet on Peter Pan Seafood, which cost Alaskans $29 million.
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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
Codeberg: Spam and DoS attacks on non-commercial development platform
Masses of spam messages, overflowing email inboxes and clogged internet lines: Anonymous attacks plague the non-profit Github alternative.
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How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
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Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the president’s executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to leave the force, their colleagues said.
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ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.
Appeals Court Overturns Murder and Kidnapping Conviction in Etan Patz Disappearance
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The judges’ decision echoed ProPublica’s reporting from 2013 that raised questions about the veracity and legality of suspect Pedro Hernandez’s confessions in one of the most famous missing child cases in U.S. history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/etan-patz-pedro-hernandez-conviction-overturned-murder-kidnapping?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Alaska Judge Vows to Reduce Trial Delays: “We Must, and We Will, Improve”
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Chief Justice Susan M. Carney’s comments follow ProPublica and Anchorage Daily News reporting that found the median time to resolve the most serious felonies in Alaska was three years in 2023 — triple the time it took a decade before.
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
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One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Hoping to “Trump Proof” Students’ Civil Rights, Illinois Lawmakers Aim to End Police Ticketing at School
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The latest version of a bill spurred by a 2022 ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation would explicitly prevent police from ticketing students for violations such as vaping or truancy, and require districts to track and disclose police activity.
We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.
His tool concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers.
But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.
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This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free.
(Published Oct. 2019)
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The Housing Loophole That Lets Wealthy Investors Raise Rents on Poor Tenants
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As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise rents on 115,000 apartments. Congress has repeatedly failed to act.
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Maricopa County’s and Arizona’s handling of the death penalty have been questioned for years. A 2016 report cited the county as one place with a history of “overzealous prosecutors, inadequate defense and a pattern of racial bias and exclusion.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-death-penalty-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
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AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fancy fish tanks. No designer fish. No new jobs.
"The New York Times has reportedly approved artificial intelligence tools that newsroom staff can use for editing copy, summarizing information, coding, and writing. The publication announced in an internal email that product and editorial staff will receive AI training, according to Semafor, and introduced a new internal AI tool called Echo for summarizing articles, briefings, and other company activity."
https://www.theverge.com/news/613989/new-york-times-internal-ai-tools-echo
Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts
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Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.
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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
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Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.
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Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.
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Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.