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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 15/09/2026
When my colleagues and I started digging around in CDC data on pregnancy-related deaths, we noticed something surprising: the rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths had more than doubled in recent years. Nearly 200 women died between 2020 and 2025. So we set out to learn why 🧵
A chart showing an increase in the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, normalized by the number of live births. In the three-year period starting in 2014, the rate is a little above 4 deaths per million live births. The rate rises sharply for the 2020-2022 period and continues to increase, to 9.8 deaths per million births, in 2023-2025.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Ellis Simani @emsimani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW @propublica.org: A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. We uncovered troubling inconsistencies in how some DAF sponsors applied their policies and found that donors and charities are routinely left in the dark. www.propublica.org/article/dono...
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Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 01/07/2026
🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/06/2026
Dress with impact. You can now add ProPublica to your wardrobe: bit.ly/3QEPa5W
Three pieces of ProPublica merchandise (a black crew neck sweatshirt, a white T-shirt, and a black tote-bag) on a bright blue background.
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Hannah Fresques @fresques.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people. www.propublica.org/article/mike...
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A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making America’s Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that kille...
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵
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Hannah Fresques @fresques.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
So proud of data reporters @sophiechou.bsky.social and @harucoryne.bsky.social, who are Pulitzer Prize winners today. They made sense of tens of thousands of scanned, hand written forms to uncover how the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The award, for uncovering predatory state towing practices, marks ProPublica’s 9th Pulitzer; two additional investigations were named finalists.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/05/2026
JUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org'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.
The Pulitzer Prizes Local Reporting Winner: Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica. Image (right) displays an illustration of a white tow truck and a headline that reads: Gone in 15 days: How the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people's cars.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
AMAZING, AMAZING NEWS!! ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting 🎉🎉🎉
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ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The award, for uncovering predatory state towing practices, marks ProPublica’s 9th Pulitzer; two additional investigations were named finalists.
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Hannah Fresques @fresques.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
In letters to Experian and TransUnion, U.S. senators wrote that a “drastic drop in responsiveness means that American consumers may be getting denied a mortgage or housing simply due to an error on their report that your company failed to correct.” www.propublica.org/article/cred...
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Lawmakers Demand Answers About Growing Number of Unfixed Mistakes on Credit Reports
Four senators wrote letters to Experian and TransUnion, requesting information on the companies’ dispute handling processes after ProPublica revealed they have been dismissing more consumer complaints...
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Andrew Ba Tran @abtran.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We got our hands on internal ICE records that show how widespread use of force, like punches, kicks, takedown maneuvers, restraint holds, and less-lethal weapons such as Tasers and pepper spray in detention centers has grown wapo.st/4tdgBRA (1/)
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I keep coming back to this number uncovered by @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social in this new @propublica.org investigation: Trump has deported moms of U.S. citizens at four times the rate Biden did. So what becomes of those U.S. citizen kids?
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW and STUNNING: A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2026
NEW: TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
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Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB
TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
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Hannah Fresques @fresques.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My team @propublica.org is hiring. We're looking for a data reporter itching to do ambitious, impactful investigations that uncover abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust. Maybe that's you? grnh.se/iunysgl96us
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Hannah Fresques @fresques.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
So proud of this reporting and the team who made it happen
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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 18/03/2025
Update: We just published the code behind our analysis of second-trimester pregnancy loss complications in Texas: github.com/propublica/t...
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GitHub - propublica/tx-pregnancy-loss-sepsis-analysis: A ProPublica analysis of sepsis in second-trimester pregnancy loss after Texas' near-total abortion ban went into effect
A ProPublica analysis of sepsis in second-trimester pregnancy loss after Texas' near-total abortion ban went into effect - propublica/tx-pregnancy-loss-sepsis-analysis
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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 20/02/2025
When we set out to do this analysis, we hoped to build on an existing methodology to study severe complications in early pregnancy — but there wasn't one. So, in consultation with dozens of experts, @sophiechou.bsky.social, Lizzie Presser and I developed our own. Here's how we did it:
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 20/02/2025
Want to know how the reporters did this first-of-its-kind analysis? They wrote it up: www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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taliabuford.bsky.social @taliabuford.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We're hiring two deputy editors join @propublica.org's award winning data & news apps teams, led by @schwanksta.com: 🧮5+ years in data or investigative journalism ➕ Supervising experience a plus 📌Remote friendly in U.S. 💰$140K - $150K Data: grnh.se/133da8df6us News Apps: grnh.se/4a6ceea76us
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/02/2025
Hot off the presses: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 06/02/2025
New: @propublica.org is tracking who's in Musk's DOGE crew. 20+ names so far including some that haven't yet been reported.
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My ⁦‪ProPublica‬⁩ colleague ⁦‪Joel Jacobs and I have been reporting on astronomical payday lending rates charged by Native American tribes and their outside partners. Now MN shows states can take action to protect consumers. www.propublica.org/article/minn...
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Tribal Lender Exits Minnesota Amid Allegations of Illegally High Interest Rates
After settling a civil suit filed by Minnesota’s attorney general, the Lac du Flambeau tribe of Wisconsin has said it will no longer lend to Minnesota residents and will forgive outstanding loans from...
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This year, @megomatz.bsky.social and Joel Jacobs found companies owned by the LDF tribe showed up as a creditor in ~1/100 bankruptcy cases sampled nationwide. @agellison.bsky.social just essentially pushed them out of Minnesota with forgiveness for $1m in loans www.propublica.org/article/minn...
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Tribal Lender Exits Minnesota Amid Allegations of Illegally High Interest Rates
After settling a civil suit filed by Minnesota’s attorney general, the Lac du Flambeau tribe of Wisconsin has said it will no longer lend to Minnesota residents and will forgive outstanding loans from...
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