[ad_1] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Wisconsin Watch. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In the fall of 2022, Phoebe Petrovic, an investigative reporter at Wisconsin Watch and a member of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, noticed a pastor […]

[ad_1] Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, delivers the eulogy for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee at Fallbrook Church in Houston on Thursday. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign says it raised more than $310 million in July, driven by a […]

[ad_1] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. When lawmakers in Washington set out to expand a lucrative tax break for the state’s data center industry in 2022, they included what […]

[ad_1] VP Kamala Harris has been the subject of many, many coconut tree memes. Chris duMond/Getty Images/Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chris duMond/Getty Images/Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images VP Kamala Harris has been the subject of many, many coconut tree memes. Chris duMond/Getty Images/Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images From the attempted […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In January 2023, a group of about 15 people gathered for three days at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative Washington think tank a few blocks from the Capitol. Their aim was ambitious […]

[ad_1] Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, delivers remarks before departing Houston on Thursday. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images The virtual roll call to make Vice President Kamala Harris the Democratic presidential nominee is underway. After President Biden’s departure from the race, the party […]

[ad_1] Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in the glass defendant’s booth at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow on Sept. 19, 2023. Dmitry Serebryakov/AP hide caption toggle caption Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Three U.S. citizens and one legal permanent resident will be returning home from Russia as part of a massive prisoner swap that is […]

[ad_1] Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance of Ohio delivers remarks alongside rancher John Ladd (right) and Paul A. Perez, president of the National Border Patrol Council, as Vance tours the U.S. Border Wall on Thursday in Montezuma Pass, Ariz. Vance is visiting the border on the final stop of his first visit to […]

[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump walks off stage after speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Chicago, Ill. — At first, it felt like watching a slow-motion car crash. I wasn’t actually in the room when Donald Trump brought […]

[ad_1] Speaker of the House Mike Johnson led a news conference with Republican committee chairs, including House Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, on April 30 to decry reports of antisemitism happening at university protests across the country. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Columbia University could face subpoenas […]