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Lessons From Hurricane Helene on Evacuation Orders, Messaging and Emergency Managers — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. When Hurricane Helene plowed over the Southeast last September, it caused more inland deaths than any hurricane in recorded history. The highest per capita […]

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How Some Christian Group Homes Avoid Florida’s Standards

This story is published in partnership with the New York Times as part of The Times’s local investigations fellowship. As religious groups across the country open more maternity homes for pregnant women and teenagers, the nonprofit that oversees some of those homes in Florida is facing renewed criticism from state lawmakers over its practices. The […]

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In Defense of Academic Freedom

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Why defend academic freedom even when the ideas in question are wrongheaded or harmful? “It is precisely because any kind of purge opens the gate to all kinds of purge, that freedom of thought necessarily […]

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Trump’s plans to gut VOA get boost from appeals court : NPR

A sign outside of the Voice of America headquarters in Washington, DC, US, in March, shortly after President Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing the scope of eight federal agencies as part of his campaign to downsize the US government, including the US Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America. Bloomberg/Bloomberg […]

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One killed, one injured in Pleasant Township crash

One male died and another was injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in Pleasant Township, police said. Deputies with the Porter County Sheriff’s Department were called around 4:51 p.m. May 21 to the intersection of Ind. 8 and County Road 450 East, according to a release from Sgt. Ben McFalls, the department’s public information […]

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Chicago Police Fail to Investigate Officers Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Assault — ProPublica

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Invisible Institute and co-published with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Repeat Offenders: Chicago police failed to stop troubling behavior in their ranks, records show. […]

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Several Law Enforcement Agencies Have Stopped Reselling Guns

This story was published in partnership with CBS News & Stations and The Trace. More than a dozen law enforcement agencies have stopped reselling their used guns or pledged to reconsider the practice after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.  The investigation, published last year, revealed […]