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1 week ago | 
revealnews.org | Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb |Jim Briggs
It’s been just over 20 years since the Battle of Fallujah, a bloody campaign in a destructive Iraq War that we now know was based on a lie. But back then, in the wake of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with troops who believed in serving and defending the country against terrorism. “Going to Fallujah was the most horrific experience of our lives,” said Mike Ergo, a team leader for the US Marines Alpha Company, 1st Battalion.
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3 weeks ago | 
revealnews.org | Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda |Nikki Frick |Zulema Cobb
When the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department in California wanted to purchase new firearms, it sold its used ones to help cover the cost. The old guns went to a distributor, which then turned around and sold them to the public. One of those guns—a Glock pistol—found its way to Indianapolis. That Glock was involved in the killing of Maria Leslie’s grandson, and the fact that it once belonged to law enforcement makes her loss sting even more. “My grandson was in his own apartment complex.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs
Chelsea Goodrich and her mother, Lorraine, were locked in discussions with the director of the Mormon church’s risk management division, Paul Rytting. One of Rytting’s jobs is to protect the church from legal liability, including sexual abuse lawsuits. The women had come to the meeting with one clear request: Would the church allow a local Idaho bishop who heard Chelsea’s father’s confession of abuse to testify against him at trial?
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Taki Telonidis |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda
When the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department in California wanted to purchase new firearms, it sold its used ones to help cover the cost. The old guns went to a distributor, which then turned around and sold them to the public. One of those guns—a Glock pistol—found its way to Indianapolis. That Glock was involved in the killing of Maria Leslie’s grandson, and the fact that it once belonged to law enforcement makes her loss sting even more. “My grandson was in his own apartment complex.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Jonathan Jones |Jenny Casas |Steven Rascon |Jim Briggs
Bill and Nancy Rasweiler thought they were making a smart decision when they decided to lease their land to Shepherd’s Run, a large-scale solar project that promised a steady income and offered them a way to contribute to renewable energy efforts. But when they presented their plan to the town of Copake, New York, they were met with widespread backlash. “We never expected this kind of resistance,” Nancy Rasweiler recalled.
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May 18, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Jenny Casas |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda
In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man murdered six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. The killer didn’t suddenly “snap” one day out of the blue; he planned the attack and spiraled into crisis in the years leading up to it. The horrific incident left violence prevention experts wondering: What were the missed warning signs? One person who held some of the answers was the killer’s mother, Chin Rodger.
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May 18, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Jenny Casas |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda
In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man murdered six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. The killer didn’t suddenly “snap” one day out of the blue; he planned the attack and spiraled into crisis in the years leading up to it. The horrific incident left violence prevention experts wondering: What were the missed warning signs? One person who held some of the answers was the killer’s mother, Chin Rodger.
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May 11, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Kate Howard |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda
In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting. He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race Mission Hill neighborhood and shot them both. Stuart’s wife, Carol, was seven months pregnant. She would die that night, hours after her son was delivered by cesarean section, and days later, her son would die, too. Stuart said he saw the man who did it: a Black man in a tracksuit.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Steven Rascon |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda
Around the globe, journalists, human rights activists, scholars and others are facing digital attacks from Pegasus, military-grade spyware originally developed to go after criminals. Some of the people targeted have been killed or are in prison. In this episode, Reveal partners with the Shoot the Messenger podcast to investigate one of the biggest Pegasus hacks ever uncovered: the targeting of El Faro newspaper in El Salvador.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Steven Rascon |Jenny Casas |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs
When Valentino Rodriguez graduated from the academy to become a correctional officer for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, he was promised a brotherhood. At his graduation, the new officers took an oath to protect the innocent, be honest and hold each other accountable. But when he started his job at the high-security prison in Sacramento, informally known as New Folsom, he found the opposite.
