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Alaska’s Deteriorating Schools Could Receive More Than $148 Million for Repairs. It’s a Fraction of What They Need.

Following reporting by KYUK, ProPublica and NPR, lawmakers tripled the funding the state would allocate toward school construction and maintenance. The budget increase would still only cover about 13% of what school districts requested.

10 Months Ago: Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.

1 Year Ago: A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.

Nash Weerasekera, special to ProPublica

More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds

Following a ProPublica investigation, a report found that dozens of doctors routinely performed controversial vascular procedures. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would look into those physicians’ practices.

3 Years Ago: Steak Dinners, Sales Reps and Risky Procedures: Inside the Big Business of Clogged Arteries

3 Years Ago: In the “Wild West” of Outpatient Vascular Care, Doctors Can Reap Huge Payments as Patients Risk Life and Limb

Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images

The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.

Courtesy of Kylie Cleveland

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Reforms to Immigration Officers’ Use of Tear Gas and Pepper Spray

A ProPublica investigation found that scores of children were hurt by these chemicals during President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Lawmakers say the findings show more restrictions are needed.

3 Weeks Ago: Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.

2 Weeks Ago: At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign.

Kathleen Flynn for ProPublica

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

Women like Emily Waldorf are still denied care during dangerous miscarriages in states with abortion bans. Texas reformed its law in an effort to fix that. Most other states haven’t tried.

2 Years Ago: Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

2 Years Ago: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can’t Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

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