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  Hi Reader,   ProPublica does one thing, and one thing only: publish investigative journalism in the public interest. That means when power is abused, we show up. Taxpayer money is secretly misused, a greedy corporation puts profits over safety, a new government policy has unforeseen consequences for people — we uncover what happened. We document the systems, decisions and individuals responsible for creating the problem, and we put that information on the record, in our stories, in the service of impact.    This is how investigative journalism is different from the daily news. We follow the paper trails, interview the people affected, examine the data and records, and show you not just what’s happening, but how it’s happened, who’s responsible, and what it means for democracy and your daily lives.    Journalism like this is built on a fundamentally optimistic view of our democracy: When our fellow citizens know the truth, they will demand reforms. We spe...

  Hi Reader,   Emily Waldorf was 17 weeks pregnant when a doctor told her, “Your body is about to miscarry.”    Her cervix was dilated, it had opened too soon, and she was going to lose the daughter whose nursery she was just getting ready to decorate.    This news was both devastating and dangerous. Three doctors gathered in the hospital room and told Waldorf and her husband that the longer her cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria, the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection. The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.    But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply. Doing so would run afoul of the Arkansas state abortion ban. Legally, they said they could not intervene until she went into labor on her own or showed signs of a dangerous infection, or until the fetal heartbeat ended. Waldorf struggled to understand what the doctors were saying as waves...

  Hi Reader,   Last week, a ProPublica investigation revealed that a top aide to the president had intervened to secure a $620 million Pentagon loan to a startup linked to the president’s eldest son.   Days later, a group of lawmakers are demanding answers from the White House .   Here's what happened: The Pentagon announced the loan to Vulcan Elements last year, about three months after Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took a stake of undisclosed size in the rare-earth magnet company. Our reporting revealed that the request to lend to the firm was made by Peter Navarro , who serves as the president’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing and is a friend of Trump Jr.’s. The Pentagon was considering funding for dozens of companies at the time, but Vulcan’s was the only deal initiated by a top aide to the president. And after defense officials got the White House request, they asked Pentagon staff to move at an unusually rapid pace.   “The call came...

  Nonprofit, investigative journalism on a mission to hold the powerful to account. Donate April 17, 2026 ·  View in browser Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas. The state’s medical board ruled that the doctors’ substandard care led to the deaths and ordered them to complete extra training. Read story   More From Our Newsroom   A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls. excerpt: A crew from FRONTLINE and ProPublica was filming, too. The man being questioned, a U.S. citizen named Christian Molina, told ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson that federal agents had followed him and rammed his car: “They looked at me and they decided to pull me over for no reason,” Molina said. What happened next can be seen in footage from FRONTLINE and ProPublica’s new documentary “Caught in the Crackdown.”   Someone ...