Erin Rhoda

1 week ago | propublica.org | Phoebe Petrovic |Doug Bock Clark |Erin Rhoda |Jennifer Smith Richards

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Wisconsin Watch. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Lawyers said Wisconsin’s public name-change process creates a dataset of likely transgender people, exposing them to risks of discrimination, harassment or violence.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Callie Ferguson |Erin Rhoda |Jennifer Richards |Jodi S. Cohen

The US Department of Justice sent a letter that “Maine should be on notice” that the agency was poised to sue. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration even pulled $4.5 million for marine research, but it didn’t touch the 33 other grantees who get similar funding. Then last week, the Social Security Administration briefly became the sixth federal agency to target Maine, canceling contracts that allowed hospitals to automatically report births and funeral homes to report deaths.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Vernal Coleman |Callie Ferguson |Erin Rhoda |Jennifer Smith Richards

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration has shut down a unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs created under President Joe Biden to address disparities in how the federal government provides disability compensation to military service members.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Callie Ferguson |Erin Rhoda |Jennifer Richards |Jodi S. Cohen

10 hours agoIt appears the tall tale that all cats have nine lives may be true for a California Maine coon named Aggie. The beloved feline was feared dead for two months after the Palisades wildfire in Los Angeles left her family’s home in ashes. But her owner, 82-year-old Katherine Kiefer, held out some …