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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Two veterans sought psychiatric care at a VA clinic in Chico, California. They were bounced between virtual providers and struggled to get support in the threadbare system. A staffer worried, “We are going to kill someone.” Then tragedy struck.

Districts across the state took us inside school buildings plagued by leaking ceilings, sparking sockets and crumbling foundations. Many schools face multiple major facilities problems and have few paths to fix them.

For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working.

A child said he was being sexually and physically abused by his father. The father alleged the mother was brainwashing the child against him. One reporter dug into years of case files to understand how courts decided to interpret the facts.

In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.

An offset program backed by the World Bank Group has enabled a mining company in Guinea to destroy villages and drive chimps out of their habitats, sowing seeds for another outbreak.

"We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them."

How reporters Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel went beyond translations to get their dairy farm coverage in front of the workers it affected.