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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign.
The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers.
Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
ALT Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
There’s a simple solution to stop most of the scammers: Add microchips to SNAP EBT cards. But Congress won’t pay for it.
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New: We recently reported that more than 500 American citizens have been detained by immigration agents. Now House members are moving to make it easier for those detained to seek justice through the courts. propub.li/4hXGFOc
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled.
Help us investigate what's really happening to your money: propub.li/47sVd2h
Homeless shelters in Maricopa County are full, and housing vouchers are scarce.
Over the summer, the waitlist ballooned to more than 200 families, with an average wait time of about seven weeks.
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New York is the latest in a growing list of states looking to more tightly regulate apps like DraftKings and FanDuel.
If passed, the rules would bar companies from using AI to customize bonuses or wagers.
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Three data centers near the New Mexico-Texas border will emit millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions once fully built.
Because there's no single federal regulation governing emissions, regulators have largely considered their impacts separately.
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New: A high-ranking Republican tried to curb the unchecked growth of West Virginia’s school voucher program. Then three PACs — bankrolled by pro-school choice billionaires like the Koch family and Jeffrey Yass — worked to take him down. propub.li/3TPiyIq
New: As Texas attorney general, Paxton has advanced anti-abortion policy in his home state and prevailed where others have failed. Allies who’ve witnessed his victories see an opening to keep moving their cause forward if his Senate bid is successful. propub.li/4yS4eOl
New: DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends. propub.li/4zL7awx
Inside an ICE facility, women talked about the 911 calls that landed them there — from men who had beat them, choked them, threatened deportation.
“I had suffered from domestic violence,” one woman said. “But the one who ended up in trouble was me.”
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After a company owned by the billionaire Moroun family erected a concrete plant in a quiet neighborhood, Detroit residents said they began battling air pollution so thick they could “taste the dust.” They say local & state officials have been little help: propub.li/4se1fxk
For a quarter-century, a border tribe has staved off plans for a wall on their land by allowing DHS to use it as a testing ground for border security.
But the Trump administration has cast off any pretense of cooperation with the Nation.
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Officials in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, spent millions of dollars drafting separate plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Neither plan took into account how the construction of three new data centers could upend climate goals in both places.
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Do “responsible gaming” safeguards work?
Reporter @JakePearsonProP persuaded ProPublica editors to bankroll him more than $20,000 to test the sports betting industry.
Our cameras were rolling the whole time.
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Missouri Republicans control virtually every lever of state government, but voters and the courts keep getting in their way.
Now the GOP is targeting the systems that give both their power: the state’s judge selection process.
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Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for turning over state voter rolls.
“Clearly, this demand is devoid of any factual basis,” one judge wrote.
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SNAP EBT cards still rely on 1960s-era magnetic-stripe technology that scammers can easily read with skimming devices on card readers.
Congress could fund a swap to the microchips that credit and debit cards long ago adopted, but it hasn’t.
propublica.org/article/food-…
Sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is.
Watch research reporter Alex Mierjeski explain how ProPublica figured out a Russian oligarch bankrolled much of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding: propub.li/4eiYp4h
What does the effort to assert federal control over elections mean for the upcoming midterms?
Join us Oct. 27 to hear what we’ve learned from our reporting: events.propublica.org/voting…
ALT Virtual event: Who Controls the Ballot Box? The Fight for Federal Control. Tuesday, Oct. 27. 4 p.m. Eastern time. Image on right of a pile of "I Voted" stickers with the U.S. flag.
People incarcerated in Pennsylvania say they have waited years for their court-appointed attorneys to pursue their wrongful conviction cases.
“We at times even have to fight the attorneys who are supposed to represent us,” one said.
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