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He profits off raw milk that’s making people sick. The government isn’t stopping him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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An Indian billionaire was targeted by Trump. Then he poured money into a startup secretly backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration.
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These Republican lawmakers challenged abortion bans. Then they faced backlash.
At least four of them lost reelection bids after anti-abortion groups and key party allies backed their challengers instead. Two others — a state representative from North Dakota and a state senator from Tennessee — face contested primaries.
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Lawmakers demand answers after the White House initiated $620M loan to firm tied to Donald Trump Jr.
In a letter, a group of Democratic Congress members wrote that ProPublica’s reporting on the deal “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence.”
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‘No one is watching’: How Trump reversed Biden’s crackdown on gun trafficking
The Biden administration struggled to broadcast its gains on public safety, and Donald Trump won election in 2024 partly by vowing to restore order.
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She faced a life-threatening miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ abortion ban, even calls to the governor’s office didn’t help.
On the morning of Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s preschooler found her curled on the bathroom floor.
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More than 100,000 American kids have had a parent detained in immigration sweeps, report estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.
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Senate candidate says foreign truckers are making America’s roads unsafe. His own truckers have caused harm.
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
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Trump exempted some of the nation’s biggest polluters from air quality rules. All it took was an email.
In March 2025, President Donald Trump’s administration made a tantalizing offer to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturing facilities and other factories: Their operations could be exempted from key provisions under the Clean Air Act, the bedrock environmental law estimated to have prevented thousands of premature deaths. All they had to do was ask.
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Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given at birth
In almost every case, the babies’ deaths could have been prevented with a long-standard vitamin K shot. But across the country, families — first in smatterings, now in droves — are declining the single, inexpensive injection given at birth to newborns to help their blood clot.
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FIFA could make billions from the world cup. Host cities will get little in return.
When Texas dedicated $22 million to host the 2017 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons, state officials expected a return on their investment.
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Fear and opportunity: Immigration scams surged as Trump’s sweeps lured desperate people to eager defrauders
Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.
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The counterterrorism czar without a counterterrorism plan
The urgency of the moment has trained a spotlight on Sebastian Gorka, the White House counterterrorism adviser tasked with drafting a blueprint for fighting homegrown and international threats.
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FDA reversal on peptides could open the market to unsafe drugs
The agency’s 2023 decision to place 19 peptides on the “unsafe” list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said.
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Trump’s DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in shift to immigration
By Ken B. Morales and David Armstrong for ProPublica In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began…
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Transportation lobbyists have donated thousands to Sean Duffy’s son-in-law as he runs for Congress
Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in…
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine agenda risks a resurgence of deadly childhood plagues
By Patricia Callahan for ProPublica Dr. Adam Ratner hovered over a gravely ill infant in a New York City intensive care unit on a grim day in 2022.
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Election records handed over to FBI in Arizona county could be fatally flawed, experts say
Unlike in Fulton County, Georgia, where actual ballots were seized, a federal grand jury subpoenaed digital data related to a partisan audit of Maricopa County’…
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The US built a blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties. Trump officials scrapped it.
By Hannah Allam for ProPublica Images from the missile strike in southern Iran were more horrifying than any of the case studies Air Force combat veteran Wes J.
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Credit bureaus are leaving more mistakes on frustrated consumers’ reports under Trump’s CFPB
TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump…
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Documents reveal web of financial ties between Trump officials and industries they help regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists…
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Kristi Noem misled Congress about top aide’s role in DHS contracts
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Noem denied that Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and…
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How a planned Disney World vacation turned into four months in immigration detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. By Mica Rosenberg for…
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Amid mass ICE arrests, Trump pardon recipient Juan Orlando Hernández given special treatment
After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.
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What meetings among trump lawyers reveal about the FBI’s seizure of election records in Georgia
Thomas Albus, the federal prosecutor from Missouri overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Georgia, had several meetings set up with top…
