Alec MacGillis

6 days ago | propublica.org | Alec MacGillis |Phoebe Petrovic |Chris Bing |Avi Asher-Schapiro

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. More children ages 1 to 4 die of drowning than any other cause of death. Nearly a quarter of adults received mental health treatment in 2023, an increase of 3.4 million from the prior year.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Alec MacGillis

5 hours agoRubio says the US will drop Ukraine-Russia peace efforts if no progress within daysPARIS (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days, after months of efforts have failed to bring an end to the fighting.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | Heather Vogell |Alec MacGillis |McKenzie Funk |Jessica Schreifels

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices. In one case, workers said an employee used a piece of cardboard from a trash bin to funnel coconut oil, a formula ingredient, into a tank during production.

3 weeks ago | nationofchange.org | Alec MacGillis

The first time I saw Andrew Rabinowitz, it was in April 2017 at Baltimore District Court, where he was representing a property management company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. That day, the company had three cases against tenants at Dutch Village, one of the many large apartment complexes the Kushner Companies owned in the Baltimore area. One tenant was a Morgan State University student facing struggles typical of residents in the Kushner complexes.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Alec MacGillis

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