Brett Murphy

1 month ago | propublica.org | Talia Buford |Ginny Monk |Joshua Kaplan |Brett Murphy

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. We are pleased to announce the journalists chosen as the 2025 cohort of the ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program. The program was established in 2023 to expand the ranks of editors with investigative experience in newsrooms across the country and help better reflect the nation as a whole.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Tim Golden |Jesse Coburn |Joshua Kaplan |Brett Murphy

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In what could be a significant escalation of U.S. pressure on Mexico, the Trump administration has begun to impose travel restrictions and other sanctions on prominent Mexican politicians whom it believes are linked to drug corruption, U.S. officials said.

1 month ago | benton.org | Joshua Kaplan |Brett Murphy |Justin Elliott |Alex Mierjeski

In early February 2025, Sharon Cromer, U.S. ambassador to Gambia, went to visit one of the country’s Cabinet ministers. It had been two weeks since President Donald Trump took office, and Cromer had pressing business to discuss. She needed the minister to fall in line to help Elon Musk. Starlink, Musk’s satellite internet company, had spent months trying to secure regulatory approval to sell internet access in the impoverished West African country.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Joshua Kaplan |Brett Murphy |Justin Elliott |Alex Mierjeski

This story first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In early February, Sharon Cromer, U.S. ambassador to Gambia, went to visit one of the country’s Cabinet ministers at his agency’s headquarters, above a partially abandoned strip mall off a dirt road. It had been two weeks since President Donald Trump took office, and Cromer had pressing business to discuss.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Jesse Coburn |Margaret Coker |Joshua Kaplan |Brett Murphy

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. At least 115 fair housing cases have been halted or closed, according to HUD officials, some of whom fear race-based cases could be the next category abandoned. HUD’s Fair Housing Office is set to lose a third of its staff, and it’s now nearly impossible to spend money on investigations. “We are being gutted,” an official said.