November 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM EST
More Than Numbers: Portraits of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents

More Than Numbers: Portraits of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents The Department of Homeland Security says it's not detaining Americans. In written statements, it has said that "allegations that ICE is arresting and deporting U.S. citizens is FALSE."

November 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM EST
A Tool Built by Election Deniers Said These Voters Were Dead. We Found Them Alive.

A Tool Built by Election Deniers Said These Voters Were Dead. We Found Them Alive. A voter departs after casting a ballot at a polling location in Atlanta on Nov. 3. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Image Ahead of the midterms, conservative election activists discussed plans to wield a powerful new weapon in the war against fraud: a data tool built by one of their own that could identify suspicious voters and help with contesting their ballots.

November 11, 2026 at 8:05 AM EST
A Newborn Died in a Faith-Healing Sect. The State -- and One Ex-Believer -- Stepped in to Save Her Twin.

A Newborn Died in a Faith-Healing Sect. The State -- and One Ex-Believer -- Stepped in to Save Her Twin. Evelyn at the grave of her twin, Ginnifer The deputy medical examiner thought the family was being evasive. Eric Tonsfeldt had been dispatched to the pistachio-green house in Oregon City on the night of March 5, 2017. Inside he found Sarah Mitchell in bed, her dead newborn in her arms. Mitchell is a member of the Followers of Christ, a sect known for refusing medical treatment. She had received no prenatal care. Three women without medical training guided her delivery that afternoon.

November 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM EST
Prophecy, Scorn and a Rejection of This World: The Forbidding Vision of a Faith-Healing Preacher

Prophecy, Scorn and a Rejection of This World: The Forbidding Vision of a Faith-Healing Preacher Walter White baptizes a Followers of Christ member in 1951. He led an Oregon City, Oregon, offshoot of the sect. Courtesy of the Phillips family It was a stark and forbidding vision for those who followed the righteous path. Scorn, the preacher told his congregation, was a person's lot if they led an "honest, clean, pure, godly life." The world hated "people that live like that," he said.

November 11, 2026 at 5:00 AM EST
"We Have No One": How Trump's Dismantling of the VA Left a Veterans Hospital in Crisis

"We Have No One": How Trump's Dismantling of the VA Left a Veterans Hospital in Crisis Hokyoung Kim for ProPublica John Falchetto was a survivor. In Vietnam, his river gunboat came under devastating rocket fire. He was the only one to make it out alive. But this February, Falchetto, who had just turned 80, began to have piercing stomach pains. He was in distress for days. Finally, Falchetto went to the VA hospital in East Orange, New Jersey.

November 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM EST
A Natural Gas Project Off Alaska's Coast May Be a Russian Ploy for Intel on the Arctic

A Natural Gas Project Off Alaska's Coast May Be a Russian Ploy for Intel on the Arctic A collage showing a diagram of the key parameters of the proposed terminal, a photo of a U.S. Navy exercise in the Beaufort Sea in 2022, and two vantage points on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Photos by Lance King/Getty Images, Justin Yarborough/U.S. Navy. To an outsider, the research boats bobbing in the frigid and stormy Beaufort Sea off Alaska would seem little cause for alarm. Oil and gas companies have regularly explored the area for decades.

November 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM EST
The Garbage Man: Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills

The Garbage Man: Bill Gates Has Earned Billions Investing in Climate-Polluting Landfills Mark Harris for ProPublica. Source images: Getty Images, RMI. In November 2015, world leaders descended on Paris to negotiate a historic agreement to limit global warming. But on the summit's opening day, attention turned to a private citizen slouched awkwardly in a chair on stage: Bill Gates. Gates, with his characteristic flop of sandy hair, grinned impishly as President Barack Obama called him a "visionary" and a "driving force" behind a pair of pledges that both saw as key to the larger agreement. First the world's largest economies would double their spending on research into clean-energy technologies. Then investors like Gates would back the startups that emerged. The Microsoft cofounder had already enlisted two dozen other billionaires to join the effort.

November 9, 2026 at 10:55 AM EST
Watch: Where Do Our Generic Drugs Come From? We Dug to Find Out.

Watch: Where Do Our Generic Drugs Come From? We Dug to Find Out. These days, we know where almost everything comes from. Everyday items like food, clothes and pens all carry labels listing where things are grown, manufactured or even designed. So why is it so hard to find where prescription drugs are made?

November 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM EST
Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts to Screen for Ebola and Other Diseases

Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts to Screen for Ebola and Other Diseases Donald Trump Jr., left, and Eric Trump, right, watch as their father, Donald Trump, center, speaks to members of the media in 2024. Justin Lane/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Trump administration awarded a small biosecurity company nearly $40 million to screen for Ebola and other infectious diseases just months after a firm linked to President Donald Trump's elder sons invested in its parent company, according to records and interviews.

November 9, 2026 at 5:00 AM EST
Lawyers in This State Are Allowed to Ghost Clients for Years. Why Don't More Judges Stop Them?

Lawyers in This State Are Allowed to Ghost Clients for Years. Why Don't More Judges Stop Them? When a person challenging their conviction can't afford a lawyer, a judge will appoint one. Last year, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Frank Palumbo advised a newly appointed lawyer that his case looked "like it's going to be a " dismissal." Illustration by Mark Harris for ProPublica. Source images: The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania; David Swanson/The Philadelphia Inquirer. One morning in July 2025, I was the lone spectator in Judge Frank Palumbo's courtroom in Philadelphia, watching prosecutors and public defenders haggle over the fates of defendants.

November 8, 2026 at 5:00 AM EST
An 11-Day-Old Baby Couldn't Stop Bleeding. For Hours, the ER Didn't Provide a Critical Vitamin Shot.

An 11-Day-Old Baby Couldn't Stop Bleeding. For Hours, the ER Didn't Provide a Critical Vitamin Shot. Gwen Biesenbach at 11 days old Courtesy of the Biesenbach family The emergency room was a mile from their Texas home. Stephanie and Eric Biesenbach took comfort in that when their newborn daughter, Gwen, wouldn't stop bleeding from her belly button. They buckled Gwen into her car seat and made the drive over. Medical records from that warm August evening in 2023 described her condition as a "generic problem" of a bleeding umbilical cord stump. The doctor on duty, Nicole Malouf, had treated plenty of those as an emergency room specialist. She covered Gwen's oozing belly button with a special gauze to stanch the flow, and when it appeared to stop, she sent Stephanie, Eric and Gwen on their way.

November 7, 2026 at 6:00 AM EST
Texas' School Voucher Program Could Be "Unrecognizable, If Not Extinct," Says Democratic Lawmaker

Texas' School Voucher Program Could Be "Unrecognizable, If Not Extinct," Says Democratic Lawmaker Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa at a rally in Austin on Election Day. Leila Saidane for The Texas Tribune Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's vision for education was finally coming together. This year, the state launched a voucher program that allowed roughly 110,000 of Texas' more than 5 million schoolchildren to get a private education using taxpayer dollars. Abbott's loyal appointee at the Texas Education Agency, Commissioner Mike Morath, was leading the state's largest takeover of public schools in recent history. And the Texas State Board of Education, with Abbott's support, helped pass a controversial new social studies curriculum that required teaching Bible stories and shifted away from world history to focus on Texas and the United States.