November 2, 2026 at 5:00 AM EST
Tribal Leaders Warned Border Wall Construction Would Disturb Native American Remains. They Were Right.

Tribal Leaders Warned Border Wall Construction Would Disturb Native American Remains. They Were Right. Quitobaquito Springs, a rare Sonoran Desert oasis imperiled by border wall construction, is located within 200 feet of the U.S.-Mexico border in Organ Pipe National Monument outside Ajo, Arizona. Anna Watts Lorraine Eiler stood in the blazing August sun, surrounded by reporters, to offer a warning. The Trump administration was racing to erect a second border wall across Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, southwest of Tucson. If the bulldozers came, she said, they were bound to disturb the final resting places of her family and Hia-Ced O'odham tribal ancestors.

October 30, 2026 at 11:10 AM EDT
Trump Has Tried to Exert More Control Over Elections. Here Are the Key Findings From Our Reporting.

Trump Has Tried to Exert More Control Over Elections. Here Are the Key Findings From Our Reporting. Early voting for the midterm elections in Los Angeles this month Grace Hie Yoon/Anadolu via Getty Images Ahead of next week's midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished institutional guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 presidential election, ProPublica's reporting has shown. Trump has empowered his loyalists to try to transform the voting process. He launched an unprecedented -- and largely unsuccessful -- effort to find noncitizen voters. And he tried to restrict mail-in voting.

October 30, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT
How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy

How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy Illustration by Chris W. Kim for ProPublica From the series Carbon Captured: How the fossil fuel industry influence climate research, an investigation from ProPublica and Drilled In the spring of 2005, the United Nations convened more than 100 of the world's top scientists in the medieval town of Oviedo, Spain. They were there to finish writing a paradigm-shifting report about a technology that they hoped could help stop climate change.

October 30, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
Federal and State Officials Ramp Up Scrutiny of DraftKings, Other Sports Betting Apps

Federal and State Officials Ramp Up Scrutiny of DraftKings, Other Sports Betting Apps Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, one of three federal lawmakers who recently cited ProPublica reporting in a letter asking sports betting companies for more information about their business practices. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images State and federal officials have ramped up scrutiny of online sports betting companies in recent weeks, launching inquiries, demanding information and, in one case, proposing a new rule that would limit when companies like DraftKings can pitch their users to bet more.

October 29, 2026 at 1:50 PM EDT
Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents

Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents ProPublica Experts have long warned that immigration dragnets will inevitably result not only in the erosion of rights for immigrants but also for citizens. Since the start of this Trump administration, we've watched those warnings come true. So we have once again done what the government won't: We have tallied and cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent reportedly detaining a citizen during the current administration -- more than 500 cases from Inauguration Day through Oct. 21, 2026.

October 29, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT
Detroit Could Block Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant From Further Neighborhood Expansion

Detroit Could Block Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant From Further Neighborhood Expansion The Kronos concrete mixing plant overlooks the Cadillac Heights neighborhood in Detroit. Sarahbeth Maney/ProPublica After years of community opposition, Detroit city officials have taken steps to stop a concrete mixing facility from further expanding into a residential neighborhood. City Council members, acting on a recommendation last week from planning officials, will soon consider a rezoning measure that would restrict industrial activity at the site of the Kronos concrete plant and surrounding area. The concrete facility at its current size could stay and continue to operate as normal.

October 29, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In

Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In Alicia Jackson, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, speaks at an event earlier this year. Photo illustration by ProPublica. Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. Last November, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the elimination of "black box" warnings on hormone replacement therapies, aiming to reverse nearly two decades of stigma surrounding a key treatment for menopause symptoms.

October 29, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
"Peak Greenwashing": Two Bills in Congress Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims

"Peak Greenwashing": Two Bills in Congress Endorse Misleading Recycling Claims Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica The plastics industry spent decades convincing consumers that throwing used products stamped with the "chasing arrows" symbol into a curbside bin meant they would be recycled. Now, amid growing awareness that many of those items never get reprocessed, the industry is championing a pair of proposals in Congress that would give misleading recycling claims the support of federal law.

October 28, 2026 at 11:45 AM EDT
Meet ProPublica's 2026 Class of Emerging Reporters

Meet ProPublica's 2026 Class of Emerging Reporters ProPublica's Emerging Reporters Program provides support and mentorships to college students who are pursuing careers in investigative journalism and need additional training and financial support to help advance their goals. Participants receive a $9,000 stipend, a trip to the annual NICAR investigative journalism conference, occasional training and presentations by speakers. They'll also be paired one-on-one with ProPublica journalists who can help counsel them on stories, build their connections in the industry and expose them to the varied paths that careers in investigative journalism can take. Past Emerging Reporters have gone on to work at The New York Times, The Associated Press, Fresnoland, Capital B, The Tributary and other outlets.

October 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump's "Big Lie" Into a Movement

How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump's "Big Lie" Into a Movement Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Source images: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Win McNamee/Getty Images. In July, not long before President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address questioning the legitimacy of American elections, the pioneering conservative election lawyer Cleta Mitchell and about two dozen of her associates logged onto a private video briefing with the White House.

October 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.

This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It. Photo illustration by Jovelle Tamayo/ProPublica. Source images: Nick Oxford for ProPublica, courtesy of Mike Faulkner, and obtained in an open records request from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. In June 2023, staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency were fed up. The state isn't known for cracking down on oil and gas companies for polluting the environment, but for over a year, the staff had been building a case to punish Citation Oil & Gas, one of the nation's largest privately owned oil companies.

October 26, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT
In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests

In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests State Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, interacts with protesters as he leaves the Senate chamber after a special session of the state legislature to redraw the U.S. congressional voting map in Nashville, Tennessee, in May. George Walker IV/AP Not two weeks after the Tennessee legislature carved Memphis into three congressional districts this spring, in a move designed to eliminate Democratic representation, Republican state Sen. Brent Taylor made his electoral expectations clear in a photo posted on social media.