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The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election integrity.

From inside a women’s prison in Oklahoma, a domestic violence survivor began collecting other prisoners’ stories of abuse. Their accounts helped shape a new Oklahoma law intended to reduce their sentences — but will it work?

A push for more transparency on drug labels. Clearer guidance for doctors in Texas on how to legally provide abortions. Here’s a look at some recent impact from our newsroom.

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

In a letter that cited ProPublica’s reporting, Sens. Rick Scott and Kirsten Gillibrand asked the defense secretary for more information about the military’s drug supply and its reliance on foreign manufacturers.

Citing a ProPublica investigation that found that workers at federal lockups had been lured away to ICE, lawmakers asked how the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to address the agency’s “unsafe conditions” and “pervasive” shortages of critical staff.

“None of this has been thought through very carefully, ” one official said of the plans, which upend long-standing restrictions meant to protect Americans’ privacy.

Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigration and child welfare systems.

Officials at the agency knew about the use of potentially dangerous “forever chemicals” in protective gear years before publicly acknowledging the issue, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, brain swelling and other serious complications.