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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.---Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has also constricted the rights of pregnant women.https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-court-ordered-c-sections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Women #Health #Florida #Law #Pregnancy #Medicine #Doctors #Courts #Legal
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Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.---A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Microsoft #Cybersecurity #Government #Technology #Tech #Cloud
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RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Health #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Children #History #Science #RFKJr
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To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Nuclear #Energy #DOGE #Technology #Tech #Safety #Trump #AI
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The Trump Nominee Whose Company Is Suing the Trump Administration---A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination as Ambassador to Hungary, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now, the facility is suing to stop collection.https://www.propublica.org/article/benjamin-landa-ambassador-company-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Health #Healthcare #Medicaid #Law #Lawsuit #Trump
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Our Nursing Home Inspect database helps you find issues that inspectors identified in more than 14,000 U.S. nursing homes.To give the public more insight into who owns U.S. nursing homes, we just added a new search feature.https://www.propublica.org/article/nursing-home-inspect-database-update?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#Research #Data #Health #Healthcare #Journalism
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Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme.Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent.https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Trump #Arkansas #Health #Fraud #Law #Legal #USPolitics
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NEW: Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm ElectionsWhen Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover#news #government #trump #elections #democracy
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth---The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children
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JUST IN: ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize: https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-and-the-connecticut-mirror-win-pulitzer-prize-for-local-reporting#journalism #media #awards #connecticut #localnews
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ProPublica also received two other finalist designations:Our “Rx Roulette” series about how the Food and Drug Administration has for years allowed risky drugs to enter the United States was named a finalist in the investigative reporting category. https://www.propublica.org/series/rx-roulette#journalism #reporting #investigation #FDA #health #safety #drugs #pharma #media
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Our “The End of Aid” series about the fallout from the destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development was named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category. https://www.propublica.org/series/the-end-of-aid#journalism #media #awards #USAID #Politics #trump #government #USPolitics #MarcoRubio
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For years, the FDA told the public that generics are just as safe and effective as brand-name medications. But ProPublica reporters found that this isn’t always true.Listen to the first episode of “Paper Trail,” our new podcast. Subscribe: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/what-fda-wont-tell-you-generic-drugs-safety?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#Podcast #Audio #FDA #Medicine #Health #Safety #Drugs
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If you also ran to check your prescriptions after listening to this episode, use our “Rx Inspector” tool to look up where your generic drugs were made: https://propublica.org/rx-inspector#FDA #Medicine #Health #Safety #Drugs
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NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes.It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska.The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it.https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Alaska #FCC #Internet #Wifi #Telecom #Government
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Alaskans pay higher costs for slower internet speeds than most Americans. The government has spent billions of dollars of public money to try to fix the problem.We want to know how it’s really going in your community: https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/alaska-internet-service-survey#Alaska #Internet #Business #Government #Survey
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NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking.Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Defense #Military #Ukraine #Government #Technology #Tech
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NEW: Top Oversight Dem Opens Investigation of Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian Oligarch-Funded WeddingRep. 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