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August 2020

The Loan Company That Sued Thousands of Low-Income Latinos During the Pandemic

by Kiah Collier, Ren Larson and Perla Trevizo,

How We Found Out How Many Debt Collection Lawsuits Oportun Inc. Filed During the Pandemic

by Ren Larson and Kiah Collier,

Hand-Picked Mentors and Networking: Apply for ProPublica’s 2020 Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA

by ProPublica,

Billionaire T. Denny Sanford Was Under Investigation for Child Pornography

by Robert Faturechi and Isaac Arnsdorf,

Trabajadoras temporales luchan contra supuesto acoso sexual y dicen que sufren represalias por hacerlo

por Melissa Sanchez,

He Faced a Criminal Charge for Not Self-Isolating When He Had COVID-19 Symptoms. Prosecutors Just Dropped the Case.

by Tony Briscoe,

A Cal Fire firefighter standing with his back to the camera facing a forest fire.

They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

by Elizabeth Weil,

Temp Workers Fight Back Against Alleged Sexual Harassment and Say They Face Retaliation for Doing So

by Melissa Sanchez,

Electionland 2020: Nursing Home Voting, Election Guides, Creative Enfranchisement and More

by Rachel Glickhouse,

Las empresas empacadoras de carne ignoraron las advertencias durante años, pero ahora dicen que nadie habría podido prepararse para COVID-19

por Michael Grabell y Bernice Yeung,

Black Diabetics Lose Limbs at Triple the Rate of Others. Here’s How Health Care Leaders Are Starting to Act.

by Lizzie Presser,

The Mystery House: How a Suspicious Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Deal Is Connected to California’s Deadliest Fire

by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation,

Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic

by Ryan McCarthy and Jack Gillum,

Alaska’s Attorney General Resigns Hours After We Published “Uncomfortable” Texts He Sent to a Younger Colleague

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News,

Alaska’s Attorney General on Unpaid Leave After Sending Hundreds of “Uncomfortable” Texts to a Young Colleague

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News,

She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right.

by Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette, and Talia Buford and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica,

Federal Prosecutors Have Steve Bannon’s Murky Nonprofit in Their Sights

by Yeganeh Torbati,

¿Son seguras las escuelas y las universidades en Estados Unidos? ¿Los alumnos realmente aprenden? Ayúdenos a saber más.

por Beena Raghavendran, Caroline Chen, Annie Waldman y Jodi S. Cohen,

Black Workers Are More Likely to Be Unemployed but Less Likely to Get Unemployment Benefits

by Ava Kofman and Hannah Fresques,

Federal Investigation Finds Hospital Violated Patients’ Rights by Profiling, Separating Native Mothers and Newborns

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

ProPublica Selects Six Public Broadcasting Projects for Local Reporting Network

by ProPublica,

Electionland 2020: DeJoy Under Fire, Election Administrators, Pandemic Voting and More

by Rachel Glickhouse,

For Election Administrators, Death Threats Have Become Part of the Job

by Jessica Huseman,

A Closer Look at the Public Art at Chicago Police Stations

by Logan Jaffe,

Private Border Wall Fundraisers Have Been Arrested on Fraud Charges

by Perla Trevizo, Jeremy Schwartz and Lexi Churchill,

Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of a Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People

by Yeganeh Torbati,

Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19

by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung,

ProPublica Wins Two New York Press Club Journalism Awards

ProPublica,

What the Post Office Needs to Survive a Pandemic Election

by Jessica Huseman, Maryam Jameel and Ryan McCarthy,

Cellphone Data Shows How Las Vegas Is “Gambling With Lives” Across the Country

by Marshall Allen,

Near Misses at UNC Chapel Hill’s High-Security Lab Illustrate Risk of Accidents With Coronaviruses

by Alison Young and Jessica Blake for ProPublica,

Here Are Six Accidents UNC Researchers Had With Lab-Created Coronaviruses

by Alison Young and Jessica Blake for ProPublica,

The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse

by Eric Umansky and Mollie Simon,

Obama and the Beach House Loopholes

by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser,

Burial Site Found on a Property Tied to Obama, Causing Tension With Native Hawaiians

by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser,

ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say

by Lomi Kriel,

Internal Memo Shows Trump Administration Expects Drastic Drop in Demand for U.S. Visas for Years to Come

by Yeganeh Torbati and Dara Lind,

Electionland 2020: USPS Chaos, Election Cybersecurity, August Voting and More

by Rachel Glickhouse,

In Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago, Bridges Have Become Barricades

by Mick Dumke,

CareOne Nursing Homes Said They Could Safely Take More COVID-19 Patients. But Death Rates Soared.

by Sean Campbell, Hannah Fresques and Benjamin Hardy,

How We Analyzed Data on Nursing Home Outbreaks

by Hannah Fresques and Sean Campbell,

Kamala Harris Reading Guide: The Best Reporting on the Vice Presidential Candidate

by Mollie Simon,

This Billionaire Governor Keeps Firing Top Officials When He Has a Crisis

by Ken Ward Jr.,

It’s Illegal for Federal Officials to Campaign on the Job. Trump Staffers Keep Doing It Anyway.

by Andrea Bernstein, WNYC,

Case Closed: Michigan Judge Removes Grace, Black Teen Jailed for Not Doing Online Schoolwork, From Probation

by Jodi S. Cohen,

Local Officials Say a Nursing Home Dumped Residents to Die at Hospitals

by Joe Sexton and Joaquin Sapien,

ICE Is Making Sure Migrant Kids Don’t Have COVID-19 — Then Expelling Them to “Prevent the Spread” of COVID-19

by Dara Lind and Lomi Kriel,

The White House Paid Up to $500 Million Too Much for These Ventilators, Congressional Investigators Say

by Patricia Callahan and Sebastian Rotella,

Electionland 2020: Masks at the Polls, Election Funding, Ex-Felon Enfranchisement and More

by Rachel Glickhouse,

¿A dónde se irán todos?

by Abrahm Lustgarten,

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    Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.

    Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. None has received a reply.

    by Nicole Foy,

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    “Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”

    Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

    by T. Christian Miller,

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    The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation.

    by Jeff Ernsthausen, Mica Rosenberg and Avi Asher-Schapiro,

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    Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and to keep them safe.

    by McKenzie Funk,

    American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

    “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.

    by Hannah Allam,