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The News Leaders Association announced this week that the ProPublica series “The NYPD Files” won its First Amendment Award. The award recognizes the best journalism advancing Freedom of Information principles or overcoming significant resistance to the application of the First Amendment. The series, which investigated abuse and impunity inside the New York City Police Department, started with one question: How does accountability for NYPD officers really work? It became an unprecedented examination of how a veneer of civilian oversight belies the reality that America’s largest police fo...

The Trailer: A Texas free-for-all, as twenty-three candidates battle for a swing House seat David Weigel In this edition: A 23-way election in Texas, how Republicans answer the “did Trump win” question, and the final days of the Louisiana runoff. One day the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex will stretch from coast to coast, and this is The Trailer. © David Weigel/TWP Susan Wright, a candidate for Texas's 6th Congressional District, at her home office in Arlington, Tex., on April 16. (David Weigel/The Washington Post) ARLINGTON, Tex. — Susan Wright has kept her husb...

How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers ProPublica 2 hrs ago ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Two of the leading Republican firebrands in Congress touted big fundraising hauls as a show of grassroots support for their high-profile stands against accepting the 2020 election results. But new financial disclosures show that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., relied on an email marketing vendor that takes as much as 80 cent...

The Scripps Howard Foundation announced this week that ProPublica’s reporting on mismanagement in the federal response to COVID-19 is a finalist for the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards in the Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting category. Soon after the COVID-19 crisis set in, ProPublica found that the federal government tossed aside its many rules on contracting to give out billions of dollars to just about anyone who said they could supply personal protective equipment. Unsurprisingly, an unprecedented array of opportunists emerged. A story by Patricia Callahan and Sebasti...

FOX News senior meteorologist Janice Dean joins 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' with her reaction CNN anchor Chris Cuomo faced intense backlash Monday after telling "Cuomo Prime Time" viewers he cannot cover the growing sexual harassment scandal surrounding his brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Chris Cuomo, who repeatedly welcomed his relative on air for chummy interviews in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, told viewers that he was "aware of what's going on with my brother, and obviously, I cannot cover it because he is my brother. "Now, of course, CNN has to cover it," he contin...