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“Cutting government personnel by one-fourth would reduce federal spending by about 1 percent.”

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The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with spinal muscular atrophy grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and small charities funded the drug’s early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.

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Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from President Trump's executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to leave the force, their colleagues told us.

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Americans were once addicted to relocation: In the 19th century, one in three US residents moved every year. As late as 1970, that figure was one in five. Today it’s down to one in 13.

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@propublica.org has now confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with billionaire Elon Musk's DOGE effort:

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Just in from @propublica.org: Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance propub.li/4hTHyV2

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Exclusive: DOGE's new Treasury target is the Central Accounting Reporting System, which is a sensitive database that tracks the flow of money across the government, sources tell @propublica.org.

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Who are the players in Elon Musk's DOGE group? We're attempting to document who they are and what they're doing here: propub.li/3CJvd71

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On Friday, "staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children." propub.li/4jycdZT

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President Trump has stopped all money flowing through the Inflation Reduction Act, an initiative that ProPublica showed has disproportionately benefited areas that make up his base. propub.li/4hB35lu (Published Jan. 17)

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When Trump took office in 2017, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was projecting federal budget deficits would be 2% to 3% of our gross domestic product during Trump’s term. Instead, the deficit reached nearly 4% of gross domestic product in 2018 and 4.6% in 2019. propub.li/3Q1Harz

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We published this on Nov. 26: How Donald Trump plans to take spending control from Congress once in office: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper. Here's how you can reach us.

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We published this in 2020: They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

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This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc. It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.

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A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends. Instead, he told @propublica.org reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

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THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

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Parents are being charged with abusive head trauma, a newer name for shaken baby syndrome, as mounting exonerations and new science raise questions about the diagnosis. This is the story of Nick Flannery and his family, whose lives have been upended after he dialed 911 to save his unconscious baby

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We've assembled the stories you, our audience, read most @propublica.org this year, ranked by engagement time. From abortion to health insurance to militias and forever chemicals, these are the stories that resonated with you most. www.propublica.org/article/prop...

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Nonprofit Explorer is one of our most popular databases @propublica.org. Now, we've added the ability to find nonprofits that auditors have flagged as having serious financial or control deficiencies as well as organizations that have reported significant theft: www.propublica.org/article/prop...

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New story by me and @amierjeski.bsky.social: Trump’s pick to run the IRS uses the title Certified Tax and Business Advisor. Tax experts say they’ve never heard of it. The title comes from a small firm that says it’s better than CPAs at finding tax savings. www.propublica.org/article/bill...

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THREAD: Imagine going through 9 years of chemotherapy only to discover you never had cancer. Anthony Olson doesn’t have to. We have a follow up to the story we published earlier this month about Montana Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, who denies mistreating his patients. bsky.app/profile/davi...

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🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 @propublica.org is hiring a reporter to cover climate change as an investigative beat, examining how decisions by individuals, corporations and governments are shaping life-and-death outcomes for people across the U.S. and the world. Details, including salary range, 👇

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Home oxygen & breathing machine companies that have violated Medicare rules and harmed patients now want the gov't (aka taxpayers) to give them more $, and they've gotten patients on board. Check out @peterelkind.bsky.social's latest and tbt to my first @propublica.org vid on Philips Respironics ⤵️

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New ProPublica jobs! Come join us. * Covering the Southwest: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... * Covering Florida: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... Salary ranges: $90K-$130K.

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Private equity firms control more than $6 trillion in assets in the U.S. But what makes them different from any other type of investor putting their money into a business? Here's how they operate. 👇 By @themorrancave.bsky.social and @danielpetty.bsky.social

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School choice advocates are intent on expanding the availability of vouchers to fund private education at the expense of public schools, but rural residents of these targeted states are putting up some of the strongest resistance.

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Preventing cross-contamination in your kitchen is a good way to avoid any Thanksgiving salmonella mishaps, so you can focus on what’s important: whether the turkey tastes good, fighting with your family (if that’s your thing), parades and football.

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Yes, You Really Should Toss That Black Plastic Spatula www.wsj.com/health/welln...

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🚨@propublica.org is expanding its collaboration with The Texas Tribune and hiring a deputy editor to help lead our partnerships with five local newsrooms. 🙋🏾‍♀️5+ years experience managing/editing/leading investigative projects 💰$140K-$160K 📌 Anywhere in TX Apply here by Dec. 16: grnh.se/4a631dae6us

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This is a fascinating study, and speaks to the vast perception gap between what LLMs are capable of and what people think they are capable of. Doctors using ChatGPT for diagnosis performed worse than ChatGPT alone, because they kept second-guessing the model. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...

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The Biden administration wanted to improve cybersecurity for the federal government. So, Microsoft dispatched consultants to upgrade existing systems with its most advanced coverage. That effectively boxed out competitors. And when the free trial expired, switching was too difficult and costly.

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Thousands of migrants arrived in Denver after the Biden administration lifted asylum restrictions. The city offered them temporary housing and help getting jobs. But that led to resentment among the city's homeless, many of whom have waited years for housing www.propublica.org/article/denv...

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