NEW: Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile.
The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chile-suspects-venezuela-cabello-killing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Venezuela #Chile #Law #Crime #Politics #Geopolitics #Trump #Maduro
NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care.
Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.
https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Idaho #Law #Children #Religion #Health #Medicine #Parenting
In 2023, New Mexico’s AG ordered an investigation into one school district after ProPublica and New Mexico In Depth revealed Native students were expelled more often than any other group.
The investigation confirmed “substantial racial disparities.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/new-mexico-ag-report-gallup-mckinley-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NewMexico #Law #School #Education #Indigenous #Children
NEW: In Idaho, prosecutors can't file neglect or manslaughter charges against parents who say their faith prohibited giving lifesaving medical care to their children.
Until the early 1970s, that wasn’t the case.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-law-faith-healing-exemption?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Idaho #Parenting #Children #Health #History #Medicine #Law
DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double
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The number of scammers trying to capitalize on immigrants’ fears by posing as lawyers and ICE agents has surged since Trump’s reelection, ProPublica found. Now, DHS says it is seeking to identify and find these fraudsters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-immigration-scams-fraud-homeland-security?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: After ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed Ken Paxton repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live, Democrats called for an investigation into whether the Texas attorney general committed election fraud.
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Law #Election #Vote #Fraud #Investigation
When ProPublica first spoke with law professor Bennett Gershman he described the Alice Sebold rape case as “the most heinous kind of prosecutorial misconduct.” But as a paid expert for Syracuse he now asserts the city “did not engage in misconduct.”
Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records
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The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.
https://www.propublica.org/article/syracuse-sexual-assault-lawsuit-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #University #College #Students #SexualAssault #Law #Lawsuit #Transparency #Records
NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row.
Despite his overturned conviction, Louisiana could force him to go back.
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-angola-death-row-wrongful-conviction-jimmie-duncan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Law #Louisiana #CriminalJustice #Justice #Prison #Legal
Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.
He got them all.
Read the full story: https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-legislature-laws-spacex-tesla?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: These local jails in Florida were supposed to detain immigrants for only up to 72 hours, per DHS.
One woman was rebooked 10 times, spending a cumulative 26 days in jail.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigrants-rebooking-ice-jails-florida?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE #Immigration #Law #Legal #News #DOJ
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state performed just one execution in that period.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Money #Transparency #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice
I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life.
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For years, I followed the case of Fred Steese, who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. When he died in August, it felt like the universe had dealt him yet another injustice.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wrongful-conviction-cancer-death?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Journalism #CriminalJustice #Law #Prison #Justice #Cancer #Death
NEW: Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded Wedding
Rep. Robert Garcia said the revelations that Umar Kremlev had bankrolled the wedding raise “serious national security and public corruption concerns” and requested the president’s son provide financial and other records about the arrangement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-umar-kremlev-payments-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Congress #DonaldTrumpJr #Trump #Russia #Putin #Security #Ethics #Law
NEW: Citing ProPublica’s reporting, leaders of Oregon’s House and Senate housing committees say they want to eliminate a law that exempts the detailed financials of subsidized housing projects from public disclosure requirements.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-lawmakers-seek-to-open-housing-records?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oregon #Government #Law #Transparency #Housing #Records
This week, ProPublica revealed that a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding festivities.
Join our reporters on Sept. 23 for a behind-the-scenes conversation.
🗓️ RSVP: https://events.propublica.org/don-jr-wedding
#Journalism #Media #Russia #Putin #DonaldTrumpJr #Wedding #Politics #Law
“A Clear Watering Down”: Drug Transparency Bill Stripped of Critical Provisions Ahead of Senate Vote
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The Clear Labels Act was designed to alert consumers to where their drugs are coming from. After two major changes to the bill, experts worry it won’t be as effective.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clear-labels-act-drug-safety-senate-vote?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FDA #Drugs #Transparency #Law #Senate #Health #Safety #Government
Tennessee Lawmakers Demand Answers on Safety in State Youth Prisons
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Lawmakers cited a recent WPLN and ProPublica investigation that found that juvenile justice facilities run by Tennessee businessman Jason Crews repeatedly failed to report abuse and other serious incidents to the state as required.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-private-youth-prisons-dcs-letter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Tennessee #Prison #Children #Abuse #CriminalJustice #Justice #Law
NEW: A federal judge has ruled that Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies continue to search and arrest Latino drivers at a higher rate, echoing the racial disparities that prompted court oversight of the department nearly two decades ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-sheriff-oversight-judge-ruling?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #MaricopaCounty #Arizona #AZ #Immigration #Police #Law
