Powerful visuals, impactful stories. See how our photos, videos, graphics and films highlighted injustice and drove change in 2025.

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2025: Our Year in Visual Journalism

A year-in-review of the visual journalism that brought our stories to life and helped hold power to account.

#Photography #Photo #Illustration #Art #Design #Video #Film #Journalism

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk --- The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.

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“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk

The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy a...

#News #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Starship #Aviation #Space #Safety #Musk

“Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to Towing Law to Protect Drivers --- The recommendations to require more notification to car owners and to streamline the process for selling unclaimed vehicles follow a Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica investigation into towing practices.

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“Step in the Right Direction”: Connecticut DMV Commissioner Calls for More Reforms to State Towing Law to Protect Drivers

The recommendations to require more notification to car owners and to streamline the process for selling unclaimed vehicles follow a Connecticut Mi...

#News #Connecticut #Cars #Towing #Vehicles #Law #Regulation

In government records that have flown under the radar, President Trump’s EPA said it’s reconsidering whether the agency has the legal authority to update air pollution rules based on new scientific knowledge.

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Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules

In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new...

#News #Trump #Environment #Pollution #Government #Regulation #EPA

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would've Been Negative. --- Child welfare systems vary widely in what they count as a positive drug test. One state’s level is so low that Air Force pilots can fly with up to 400 times more opiates in their system.

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Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.

In the child welfare system, the threshold at which a drug test is considered positive varies widely from one jurisdiction to the next. There’s n...

#News #Health #Hospital #Drugs #Testing #Parenting #Family #Children

After the events of Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users during the riot at the Capitol. Then we created an interactive database that lets you sort through the footage. See the full collection here:

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What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by...

#Jan6 #Insurrection #Trump #Video #History #Data #Archive

Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ProPublica and ABC15 Arizona found this year. Experts say the numbers raise questions about the office’s decision-making.

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Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases

Maricopa County prosecutors have frequently pursued the death penalty, but just 13% of cases ended in a death sentence, ProPublica and ABC15 Arizon...

#News #Arizona #AZ #Law #DeathPenalty #MaricopaCounty

Our most-read story of 2025: Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams.

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t te...

#Jan6 #Extremism #Insurrection #Trump #USPolitics #Journalism

Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica. One of our most-read investigations of 2025:

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The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security

DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid...

#DOGE #SocialSecurity #Government #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Musk #News

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. Revisit our #3 most-read story of 2025:

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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”

Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern a...

#ICE #Immigration #Deportation #Immigrants #Aviation #Journalism