ProPublica

10/13/2026

Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products: https://propub.li/4rZ5Cw2

10/13/2026

Legal experts say Christa Pike is the first person in the United States to survive one dose — let alone two — of lethal injection drugs.

“There is nothing in the ex*****on process that states are incapable of getting wrong,” said one death penalty expert.

Read more: https://propub.li/4B2CgAV

10/13/2026

New: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it. https://propub.li/4dCgOc8

Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food. Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won't pay for it.

10/13/2026

New: Pennsylvania promises legal help to those who say they were unfairly convicted of crimes. Failed by a troubled system, some incarcerated people are left waiting years for their lawyers to act. https://propub.li/4dzAkGf

Pennsylvania promises legal help to those who say they were unfairly convicted of crimes. Failed by a troubled system, some incarcerated people are left waiting years for their lawyers to act.

10/13/2026

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

“DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.” “Allegations of “racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE.” “ICE does not zip tie or restrain children.”

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

We know because we have once again done what the government hasn’t: We have tallied and cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent holding a citizen during the current administration.

Our tally is almost certainly incomplete. Read our full investigation and explore our database of each case: https://propub.li/3UoAWb8

ProPublica shared its findings and information on each case with DHS. The department defended agents’ conduct: “DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted. We do our due diligence.”

10/12/2026

After private-equity executive George K. Kollitides II took on a top Pentagon role, a firm he has close ties to, Alvarez & Marsal, soon began landing major military contracts.

Just months after he joined, records show that the department finalized a $281 million no-bid consulting contract with the firm to advise Kollities’ Pentagon office.

That contract is the second in a pair of deals that since December have awarded almost $350 million in military spending to the firm — about 5x more than Alvarez & Marsal entities had received from all U.S. agencies combined in the two decades before Trump returned to office.

Kollitides was still working with a close partner of the firm, A&M Capital, when the deals were signed. It’s unclear if he will benefit financially, as his employment at the Pentagon is under a special classification that allows him to keep his financial disclosures confidential. After ProPublica reached out, A&M Capital said Kollitides had just stopped working there days earlier.

Ethics experts said it’s generally illegal for executive branch officials to play a role in awarding contracts that would have a direct impact on their own finances, unless they were granted a waiver. “It looks way too cozy to be legitimate. I think taxpayers should be appalled,” a former federal government ethics lawyer said.

➡️ Here’s the full story: https://propub.li/4yMqxoP

In a statement, A&M Capital said it is a “separately capitalized and separately managed firm from the Alvarez & Marsal consulting business” and that none of Kollitides’ work for it related to the “defense industry, the Department of War or Mr. Kollitides’ government service.”

The Alvarez & Marsal consulting business did not answer any of ProPublica’s questions.

Kollitides did not respond to questions about whether he played a role in A&M securing contracts to work for his office, but a Pentagon spokesperson replied for the department and on Kollitides’ behalf: “The Department of War maintains a rigorous, multi-layered ethics framework,” he wrote. Kollitides, he added, “is in full compliance with all ethical laws and regulations.”

10/12/2026

We’re looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization — the extra layer of approval insurers require before covering a medical expense — impacts patients.

Here’s how you can help us investigate: https://propub.li/4yfLirE

10/12/2026

Ahead of the 2024 election, ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll got his hands on some secret tapes of Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought.

One thing Vought said hit Kroll like a ton of bricks: that he wanted to put government workers “in trauma.”

Listen to our latest “Paper Trail” episode: https://propub.li/4hZMcml

10/12/2026

Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan.

Read more (with Texas Tribune): https://propub.li/3VZu0le

10/11/2026

Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one.

We founded two. Here’s how: https://propub.li/4zmfGBF