ProPublica

DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agency, who admits he sometimes made things worse. propub.li/42sqJLD

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ProPublica

After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necessary.” propub.li/4pr5Mun

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ProPublica

ProPublica identified nearly 50 instances — from social media, local news accounts, lawsuits and interviews — of immigration agents breaking vehicle windows since President Donald Trump took office in January.

Here's one eyewitness account by Kenneth Santizo.

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ProPublica

“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists. propub.li/4mqowrk

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After years of allowing chronically underenrolled public schools to struggle, Chicago is spending millions to transform three into STEAM academies, hoping to draw families back to the neighborhood schools that many of them abandoned. propub.li/46DRqj0

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ProPublica

As Texas moves to spend at least $1 billion over the next two years on private education, lawmakers have imposed almost none of the accountability measures required of the public school system.

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ProPublica

The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump administration a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations. propub.li/3VlEpnR

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ProPublica

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit.

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ProPublica

Three charter school districts’ superintendents are among the highest paid in Texas. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years. propub.li/4pltJDz

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ProPublica

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

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