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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gave Congress misleading testimony about the powers of controversial senior aide Corey Lewandowski, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and four current and former DHS officials.

At a Senate Judiciary ...

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This January, ProPublica went inside the Dilley, Texas, immigrant family detention center. Children confined there shared letters and artwork illustrating the pain of being separated from their U.S. lives.

After that piece was published, we learned ...

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Lisa Rae Moss, currently serving a life sentence for her involvement in her husband's 1990 murder, was in a Seminole, Oklahoma, courtroom one January morning. Now 60, she was asked to detail what she went through in her 20s, during her marriage to a ...

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While trailing Border Patrol convoys around Charlotte, North Carolina, photojournalist Ryan Murphy witnessed agents raid a construction site intended for a Panda Express.

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Just after graduating high school, Hannah Goetz's lungs collapsed because of cystic fibrosis.

She survived thanks to a double-lung transplant and gradually returned to good health.

Every day, she needed a crucial medication called tacrolimus to pro...

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When a federal agent shoots someone, which agency is responsible for investigating the incident?

A ProPublica analysis identified 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since Septemb...

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For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient.

The new training comes nearly five years after the state pa...

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As federal immigration agents surge into communities and detain people, the number of cases filed by those claiming their detention is illegal has risen to historic highs.

So far this year, immigrants are filing on average more than 200 of these cas...

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In the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace has held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of mor...

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The number of families being held at the Dilley immigration detention center in Texas has dropped dramatically: This week, the facility’s average daily population fell to around 100 people, down from more than 900 in January.

The decline comes after...

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Like many reporters, ProPublica Managing Editor Ginger Thompson went to Albany, Georgia, in 2020 to cover COVID-19. The sleepy, majority African American city had become one of the United States’ first hot spots.

But she soon realized there was a bi...

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Mentally competent patients typically have the right to choose their medical care — or refuse it.

But there is one notable exception: pregnant patients.

That inconsistency is particularly striking in Florida, a state that has pushed to expand medic...

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Fourteen-year-old Ariana spent more than 45 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

In early February there were more than 750 families — nearly half of them including children — being held at this facility. Since the start ...

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Clifford Thomas and his family lost four relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, including his mother, Beverly, a middle school teacher who faced lifelong health problems. When she had to stop working because of her chronic health issues, she was una...

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This week, we published a trove of more than 3,100 disclosure records that reveal financial ties between senior government officials and the industries they help regulate.

ProPublica has, over the past year, used the documents — which disclose posit...

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem misled Congress about the powers of her controversial top aide Corey Lewandowski, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and four current and former DHS officials.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing ...

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In January, ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there shared letters and artwork describing the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S.

After publishing that story, we learn...

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When guards appeared earlier this month outside the room Christian Hinojosa shared with her son and other families at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, she guessed what they might be after. She quickly slipped a manila envelope inside ...

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Lisa Rae Moss — serving a life sentence for her involvement in the 1990 murder of her husband — sat in the witness box in a courtroom in Seminole, Oklahoma, one morning last January. Moss, now 60, was asked to recount what she endured in her 20s, dur...