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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Bing |Avi Asher-Schapiro |Jake Pearson
While Elon Musk has departed the Department of Government Efficiency, the world’s richest man is leaving a network of acolytes embedded inside nearly every federal agency. At least 38 DOGE members currently work or have worked for businesses run by Musk, ProPublica found in an examination of their resumes and other records. At least nine have invested in Musk companies or own stock in them, a review of available financial disclosure forms shows.
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2 weeks ago | 
propublica.org | K. Rambo |Chris Bing |Avi Asher-Schapiro
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Street Roots. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. As the city of Portland, Oregon, clawed its way out of the pandemic, it faced a new set of crises: The city’s homeless population was growing. Tents lined some city blocks.
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2 weeks ago | 
govexec.com | Jake Pearson |Avi Asher-Schapiro |Chris Bing
Skip to Content Insights & Reports In an effort launched shortly after DOGE’s creation, ProPublica has now identified more than 100 private-sector executives, engineers and investors from Silicon Valley, big American banks and tech startups enlisted to help President Donald Trump dramatically downsize the U.S. government.
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1 month ago | 
cpj.org | Avi Asher-Schapiro |Ahmed Zidan
Istanbul, May 21, 2025—Turkish authorities should release Öznur Değer ahead of her trial on Thursday and stop conflating reporting on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) with publishing propaganda for the outlawed group, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. “The prosecution of Öznur Değer is yet another example of the witch hunt against critical journalists in Turkey.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Lomi Kriel |Mica Rosenberg |Jeff Ernsthausen |Avi Asher-Schapiro
This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. It started with a call. A man identifying himself as a federal immigration agent contacted a Venezuelan father in San Antonio, interrogating him about his teenage son. The agent said officials planned to visit the family’s apartment to assess the boy’s living conditions.
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1 month ago | 
alternet.org | Chris Bing |Avi Asher-Schapiro
The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into whether the General Services Administration has given preferential treatment to a technology startup competing for a lucrative government contract. The startup is backed by some of President Donald Trump’s most influential Silicon Valley allies.
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1 month ago | 
propublica.org | Chris Bing |Avi Asher-Schapiro |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into whether the General Services Administration has given preferential treatment to a technology startup competing for a lucrative government contract. The startup is backed by some of President Donald Trump’s most influential Silicon Valley allies.
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1 month ago | 
techdirt.com | Avi Asher-Schapiro |Chris Bing |Andy Kroll
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. A Treasury Department inspector general is probing efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to obtain private taxpayer data and other sensitive information, internal communications reviewed by ProPublica show. The office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has sought a wide swath of information from IRS employees.
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2 months ago | 
progressivehub.net | Avi Asher-Schapiro |Chris Bing |Andy Kroll
There are no officials for you to contact on Call. Thank you for your interest in this important advocacy phone call effort. While this particular call action is currently completed, you can still send an email to your congress members, support our work by visiting https://rootsaction.org and following us on social media. All U.S. House, U.S. Senate Calls will be placed to the following These are the talking points that will have the biggest impact.
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2 months ago | 
propublica.org | Andy Kroll |Jeremy Kohler |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. When President Donald Trump chose Ed Martin, the Missouri lawyer and political operative, to be the top U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., the decision came as a shock to current and former federal prosecutors as well as outside legal experts. Martin had no prosecutorial experience.
