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by Caleb Bedillion and Taylor Vance, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Northeast Mississippi… Read »Poor defendants are jailed in Mississippi for months with no lawyer
by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies purchased a string of properties on a quiet… Read »Billionaire Harlan Crow bought a property from Clarence Thomas and didn’t disclose the deal.
by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski Influential Democratic lawmakers have called for immediate investigations and vowed to create stricter ethics rules following a… Read »Lawmakers Call for Investigation and Ethics Reforms in Response to ProPublica Report on Clarence Thomas
by Margaret Coker, The Current, and Mollie Simon, ProPublica In February, Georgia lawmaker Josh Bonner introduced a bill that he hoped would fix a thorny… Read »Georgia’s GOP leaders blocked title lending reform
by Doug Bock Clark The courtroom was packed when the North Carolina State Board of Elections convened on Tuesday to consider removing two members of… Read »Republicans kicked off election board in North Carolina for failing to certify results
by Ziva Branstetter Nine months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of federal protection of abortion rights, the impact… Read »How abortion bans are impacting pregnant patients across the country
by Duaa Eldeib Federal officials have released a bleak assessment of the country’s progress in understanding and preventing stillbirths, calling the rate “unacceptably high” and… Read »U.S. stillbirth rate “unacceptably high”
by Andrea Bernstein House Republicans have sent letters to at least three universities and a think tank requesting a broad range of documents related to… Read »Rep. Jim Jordan issues subpoenas to Universities researching disinformation
by Jake Pearson Nearly two decades ago, the New York Police Department drew national headlines for its violent response to protests outside the 2004 Republican… Read »As New York pays out millions in police misconduct settlements, lawmakers ask why they keep happening
by Aliyya Swaby and Lucas Waldron When a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia’s Houston County sought surgery as part of her gender transition, local officials refused… Read »One Georgia county cpent $1 million to avoid paying for one employee’s gender-affirming care
