Nikki Frick

1 week ago | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick |Brett Myers

Across the country, women seeking addiction treatment are being harassed and assaulted by men in positions of power. The problem is so pervasive that it has a name among those in the industry: the 13th Step. “I fell right into it, right into it. You know, it’s like, it’s just, you’re so vulnerable,” says a victim named Andrea. “The 13-stepper is like, um, when you take advantage of a newcomer.

3 weeks ago | revealnews.org | Anayansi Diaz-Cortes |Nikki Frick |Zulema Cobb |Steven Rascon

This month, some of the nation’s best and brightest teenage girls will gather in Mobile, Alabama, to embark on two of the most intense weeks of their lives. Everybody wants the same thing: to walk away with a $40,000 college scholarship and the title of Distinguished Young Woman of America. Reporter Shima Oliaee competed for Nevada when she was a teenager and was invited back as a judge 20 years later. Oliaee accepted, all while recording it for a six-part audio series calledThe Competition.

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Nikki Frick |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Zulema Cobb

When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had time to make a note of. “They were children under the age of 12,” she says.

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Jenny Casas |Nikki Frick |Zulema Cobb

In 2014, in the college town of Isla Vista, California, a 22-year-old man killed six people and injured 14 others before killing himself. He 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.

1 month 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.