1/ NEW: Federal authorities in VA announced today that 4 men have been arrested in connection with the violence at Unite the Right in Charlottesville in Aug. 2017. We’ve reported on 3 of those men before. We first identified Tom Gillen & Ben Daley in this video last October. 2/ We ID’ed another of the men indicted today, Michael Miselis, back in July, when we discovered he was working for a Defense Contractor with a US government security clearance. propub.li/2OA98wQ

1/ Using a theory of his own devising, Dr. Michael Holick is a go-to expert witness for parents accused of abusing their children. Many in the medical community are critical.

Watch arguments from both sides, from Dr. Holick, as well as Dr. John Leventhal: 2/ Renowned scientist-turned expert witness Dr. Michael Holick helps alleged abusers avoid prison and regain custody of the babies they were accused of harming. Here’s what he has to say.

1/ You know that 49 people were killed in the shooting at Pulse nightclub.

What you don’t know: Even though police asked the Orlando Fire Dept. to come in and help get victims to safety and hospitals, paramedics stayed outside the club.

For hours.

propub.li/2Q4FOLG 2/ Why didn’t those first responders enter quicker?

They didn’t have a plan.

They didn’t have the right training.

And their attempts to prepare got lost in bureaucracy, even though they’d been working on a plan for a situation like Pulse for years.

1/ Q: Who gets access to cutting-edge cancer medications in the US?

A: Mostly white people.

We crunched the numbers. propub.li/2xHHUKf 2/ Who doesn’t? Generally...

-African Americans
-Native Americans

According US_FDA data, in trials for 24 of the 31 cancer drugs approved since 2015, fewer than 5% of the patients were black.

African Americans make up 13.4% of the U.S. population.
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1/ This year we’re looking at how the government controls flooding along rivers.

For 100+ years, the Army Corps of Engineers built levees to keep water out of communities and farms. Here's how that works — and how it can make flooding worse:

propub.li/2CuL3lY 2/ Then we looked at how it works in the real world, when the Corps has to decide who gets protected and who gets left behind.

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1/ The #TechHearings looked at Facebook's attempts to stop election meddling – in part by making political ads more transparent.

Using our Political Ad Collector, we're publishing the interesting choices advertisers make when targeting ads to your feed.
propub.li/2wP671i 2/ When NYC proposed a law capping the number of @Uber cars, the ride hailing company spent $20,000 in Facebook ads to target anyone who liked Black Lives Matter.
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1/ Hey journalists: We want to tell you about our Local Reporting Network, which supports local investigative reporting.

We're thrilled with our first batch of projects, and now expanding our network to dig into statehouses. Have an idea? Apply by 9/14:

propublica.forms.fm/local-reportin… 2/ So let’s say yours is a winning pitch. How does our partnership benefit you?

In this thread, we will let our seven partner local reporters this year do the talking.

1/ In Dec 2016, Det. Jessica LaBorde interrogated 12-y-o Bobby Lewis alone in the police station in Ville Platte, LA. Sheepish about repeating the words, Bobby said LaBorde called him a “B” & an “MF” while accusing him of throwing a rock through a window. bit.ly/2wg9deE 2/ Bobby said LaBorde threatened to confiscate his dog, Cinnamon, and throw his mom in jail if he didn’t own up to the crime—and a lot of other more serious crimes LaBorde accused him of committing. Bobby said he wasn’t involved in any of those crimes. bit.ly/2wg9deE

1/ Preeclampsia—a dangerous form of hypertension—is one of the most common causes of maternal death in the US.

But some of the most trusted consumer health sites in the country have published incomplete or misleading info on it. We contacted some of them propub.li/2KSMLfY 2/ Here’s how several of these sites responded after an inquiry from ProPublica reporter @ByNinaMartin:

1/ Jacksonville is reeling from three murders of black transgender women in the city this year. The crimes remain unsolved and the way the cops are handling the cases may only be making matters worse. propub.li/2KHwHOb 2/ The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office repeatedly called the victims men and refused to use the names the women were known by, a practice known as “deadnaming.”

1/ Alexis Winston’s window didn’t lock and needed a security screen. She complained to the East St. Louis, Ill., public housing authority.

No fix.

She was found dead in her apt, window shattered by an intruder. This happened one year ago yesterday.
propub.li/2vy23lv 2/ @HUDgov took over the East St. Louis housing authority in 1985 because of poor living conditions and fraud. HUD was supposed to protect the residents of public housing.

They were neglected instead.

New from @thesouthern’s @MollyParkerSI: propub.li/2vy23lv

1/ Can a levee protect one town while making flooding worse for others?

The answer is known to scientists and supported by basic physics, but we wanted to see it for ourselves. So, instead of waiting for a flood, we built a model river valley & flooded it propub.li/2M9uNKJ 2/ Along with @reveal, we hired engineers at @saflumn to build a physical model of four levee scenarios to see how construction choices can put surrounding communities at greater risk of flooding. (The houses were carved by the dads of a few @ProPublica reporters.)

1/ Ahead of tomorrow’s Kansas primary, Trump has endorsed @KrisKobach1787. We’ve written a few things about him.

🌩️

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1026495277824401408

2/ Last week, we published a joint investigation with the @KCStar detailing Kobach’s track record defending the immigration ordinances of small towns. The towns lost millions of dollars. He rose to fame. propub.li/2Oh6kAB

Records reveal more troubling incidents at a Chicago-area shelter housing immigrant children, run by Heartland Human Care Services. These include:

1/ Sex in a TV room between unsupervised minors 2/ Two girls running away while on a museum field trip

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1/ For years, Kris Kobach, a lawyer and now a candidate for Kansas gov., was hired to defend anti-immigration ordinances for small towns.

But here’s the thing: millions of dollars later, none of the towns are currently enforcing any of those laws. propub.li/2KnE8d8 2/ A former mayor characterized Kobach’s attitude as,“Let’s find a town that’s got some issues or pretends to have some issues, let’s drum up an immigration problem and maybe I can advance my political position, my political thinking and maybe make some money at the same time.”

1/ Two men in Indiana went to prison on poor police work and shaky evidence.

When the case started to unravel, officials doubled down.

Both sides would ultimately make their case to Mike Pence, now @VP, the Indiana governor running for vice president.

propub.li/2Ahnex0 2/ On Oct. 29, 1996, 17-year-old Michael Kershner was shot and nearly killed.

Who did it? Two black men, witnesses said: a tall, thin gunman, and a short, stocky accomplice.

1/ We obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. In the following tweets, we’ll share some of the most disturbing records we found. propub.li/2LUKZMF 2/ In 2015, a 15-year-old Honduran boy awoke in his Tucson, AZ immigrant shelter multiple times to find a youth care worker tickling his stomach and rubbing his penis. propub.li/2LUKZMF

1/ @ProPublica and @frontlinePBS spent the last year investigating the violent white supremacists at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. On Aug. 7, that documentary premieres. Here’s how we got here.
propub.li/2JOH9ml 2/ Two months after the deadly rally in Charlottesville, we published our first story. It was about the Rise Above Movement, a group of violent white supremacists who showed up at Trump rallies in California. propub.li/2NEHuuo

1/ Today we’re going to take a look at how immigrant teens are being given psychotropic drugs—without the consent of a parent or guardian—while housed in immigrant shelters.

New story from @carolineylchen and @jessmram: propub.li/2JKxXPU 2/ A class action lawsuit—filed in June—alleges shelters are overmedicating traumatized immigrant teens. Here’s one teen’s story as chronicled in that lawsuit: propub.li/2JKxXPU

1/ In June, we launched a project asking the public to help us report on migrant children separated from parents under zero tolerance. We partnered w/ 10 newsrooms in the US & Latin America.

As a result of this journalism, families are being reunited.

propub.li/2LABp1o 2/ Our partner @UniNoticias published profiles of four separated families we learned about through tips sent to our coalition—and now two families have been reunited.

1/ This is Marcia DeOliveira-Longinetti. After the murder of her son in 2015, the NJ state student loan agency that had lent him money sent her a letter. As the co-signer, she would have to continue paying the loan until it was repaid in full. propub.li/2KLtEFA 2/ @ProPublica reporter @AnnieWaldman interviewed Marcia for a story on the NJ agency, which pushes burdensome student loans w/ aggressive collections & few reprieves, even for borrowers who had died. propub.li/2KLtEFA