Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, Arizona's #Medicaid agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated #fraud allegations. The state’s swift response left #patients homeless, ProPublica and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting found. #Arizona #Health #HealthCare #Government
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Director of Arizona Medicaid Agency Resigns Following Fraud Scheme Response
Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, the agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated fraud allegations. The state’s sw...
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. Our database allows you to more easily search these organizations' finances. We've just updated it with 140,000 new records. Check it out:
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527 Explorer — ProPublica
Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds th...
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A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students — The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing its own anti-diversity campaign.
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A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination inve...
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Texas Senate Approves Legislation to Clarify Exceptions to Abortion Ban. But Experts Fear Confusion Would Persist. — Following ProPublica’s reporting, Republicans acknowledged women were denied care because medical providers were unsure what Texas’ abortion ban allowed. But the new legislation doesn’t remove what doctors say are the biggest impediments to care.
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Texas Senate Approves Legislation to Clarify Exceptions to Abortion Ban
Following ProPublica’s reporting, Republicans acknowledged women were denied care because medical providers were unsure what Texas’ abortion ba...
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Ed Martin, Trump's pick for D.C. U.S. District Attorney, ghostwrote online attacks against an Illinois judge with whom he was in a legal dispute. We obtained emails that show Martin bought a laptop for the woman who made the posts and coached her on how to make them look organic:
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The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor
Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney fo...
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Former employees of a Nike clothing factory in Cambodia said they sometimes saw two or three people taken to an onsite clinic in a day. One described how he carried workers who were too weak to walk.
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Decades After Nike Promised Sweatshop Reforms, Workers in This Factory Were Still Fainting
Workers have been fainting for years in Cambodia’s garment factories, where more than 57,000 people now produce Nike goods. A former medical work...
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Trump Pick to Run DEA Could Challenge America’s Already Tense Relations With Mexico — In 22 years at the agency, Terry Cole never rose to its top ranks, but he is a vocal supporter of the president’s goal of going after Mexican officials who are complicit with drug cartels.
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Trump Pick to Run DEA Could Challenge America’s Already Tense Relations With Mexico
In 22 years at the agency, Terry Cole never rose to its top ranks, but he is a vocal supporter of the president’s goal of going after Mexican off...
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Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped. — Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
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Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of m...
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