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Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
The FAA last month issued a warning to pilots that rocket failures can pose risks to airplanes and warrant "extreme caution."
The alert came the same day our investigation showed how pilots scrambled for safety when SpaceX Starships exploded last year.
www.propublica.org/article/faa-...
Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are
-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food
Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
Documents, recordings and interviews reveal that, by authorizing SpaceX to test its rockets over busy airspace, the FAA accepted the inherent risk that the launches might put plane passengers in danger.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social and Agnel Philip, graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social
A map of the northern Caribbean shows a large red area north of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico labeled "FAA's Debris Zone". The flight paths of 21 different planes show those planes making sharp turns or circling to avoid the debris zone.
NEW for @propublica.org: We analyzed flight data to see how passenger planes were affected by SpaceX's starship explosions. We identified 21 planes that appeared to make sudden turns to exit the debris zone in the minutes after the explosion. www.propublica.org/article/spac...
Three SpaceX rockets exploded unexpectedly last year – twice raining down debris over busy airspace.
“It literally looked like the sun coming out,” one passenger said.
Such midair scrambles could become more frequent as launches increase, experts say.
www.propublica.org/article/spac...
#ICYMI: The settlement is the latest development following a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed RealPage was helping landlords set rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
Let me help you with that, Speaker Johnson.
This is what we documented.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
NEW: More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found.
Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
This is the final EO - it's very similar to the draft that was circulating last month. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
We reported in July that Trump was poised to slash regs protecting the public and the environment during rocket launches by companies like SpaceX.
Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order making it happen.
Here’s our story. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The biggest landlord in the US will stop using rent-setting algorithms that critics say can result in price-fixing.
Greystar settled after federal prosecutors sued it, other landlords and the software’s maker.
We first wrote about the practice in 2022.
www.propublica.org/article/grey...
NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents.
ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.
By @heathervogell.bsky.social
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
The Trump administration is set to destroy $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives rather than deliver them to women overseas, following the dismantling of foreign assistance programs carried out by USAID
We learned the Trump admin is moving to slash regs on launch companies — like Elon Musk’s SpaceX — that aim to protect people and the enviro.
The changes come despite explosions that sent debris raining on the Caribbean and Gulf.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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NEW: A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.
Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.
🎧 Our reporter @abrahm.bsky.social was on @npr.org's Fresh Air today to talk about how Trump's undermining of science — at a time when erratic weather is making disasters more common — is "extraordinarily concerning":
The pressure is building on health providers who offer gender-affirming care for trans kids: Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
NEW: The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled.
The recent disaster in Texas is a grim omen of the climate chaos still to come.
By @abrahm.bsky.social @propublica.org
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump administration. They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH.
Hooray! The new encrypted tips form Ive been working on with @phiffer.org is now live! Very, very proud and delighted with this effort.
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White House report re “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma. By Dani Blum and Maggie Astor
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...