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Cuomo Said He’d Return 50,000 Apartments to Rent Regulation. He Didn’t Come Close.
A state effort to get landlords to comply voluntarily with a 2009 court ruling in favor of tenants appears to have fallen far short of its goal, newly available records show.
The Agent Orange Widows Club
After their husbands died of an aggressive brain cancer, the widows of Vietnam veterans have found one another as they fight the VA for benefits.
Long List of Agent Orange Decisions Awaits VA in 2017
The Department of Veterans Affairs must decide whether to add new diseases to its list of conditions presumed to be linked to Agent Orange. It also faces calls to compensate naval veterans and those who served along the Korean demilitarized zone.
Nonprofit Explorer Update
We’ve updated our database of nonprofit tax filings. It now includes more than 9 million Form 990s.
Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.
Trump’s Treasury Pick Excelled at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes
When Steven Mnuchin ran OneWest, the bank aggressively and in some cases, wrongly, foreclosed on elderly homeowners with reverse mortgages. The bank had a disproportionate share of such foreclosures.
The Continuing Muddle at a Pro-Trump Political Committee
‘America Comes First’ can’t seem to decide if it’s a PAC or a super PAC, but in either case its federal filings remain problematic.
Coming Soon: ProPublica Illinois
In 2017 ProPublica will open its first regional publishing operation in with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. Our plan is to publish investigative journalism on key issues across the state of Illinois and in the city of Chicago.
Street Hustle: The Truth Behind the ‘New’ Police Tool for Confronting Fentanyl Menace
Drug test manufacturer repackages old, error-prone chemical formula as cutting-edge product
Rare Track Record: NYPD’s History Chronicling Hate Crimes
For decades, a hate crimes task force has been on the case in New York. But even that sustained effort may not be catching all crimes.
ProPublica Files Lawsuit Seeking Agent Orange Documents From the VA
The suit claims the VA failed to promptly process a FOIA request for correspondence with a consultant about the defoliant used during the Vietnam War.
Agent Orange Curse Hangs Over Families of Virginia Veterans
There's no proof Agent Orange can be passed from fathers to their children, but that's no solace to Vietnam vets who see their children struggle with life-long health problems — and sometimes die.
Trump’s Pick for Commerce Secretary May Have the Biggest Conflicts of Them All
Wilbur Ross has made a fortune in steel — and the Commerce Department will soon make decisions that will affect his firms.
The Children of Agent Orange
For decades, Vietnam veterans have suspected that the defoliant harmed their children. But the VA hasn’t studied its own data for clues. A new ProPublica analysis has found that the odds of having a child born with birth defects were more than a third higher for veterans exposed to Agent Orange than for those who weren’t.
Vietnam Veterans And Their Families Share Stories of Exposure, Illness And Frustration
As part of our Reliving Agent Orange series, ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot have been recording the voices of those impacted by the herbicide, which contained the toxic chemical dioxin.
A Public Official’s Private Pain
A Washington legislator had two children after her husband returned from the Vietnam War. One lacks sight in an eye. The other died of cardiomyopathy at age 21. “We don’t have this in the family,” she said. “The veterans would all say, ‘You know it’s probably Agent Orange.’”
