“We’re Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk
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The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-faa-launch-airlines-safety-explosions-florida-caribbean?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s Ginger Thompson pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here: https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-one/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Georgia #Health #Healthcare #Journalism #Hospital #Poverty #COVID
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Texas #School #Law #Ethics #Students #Teaching
New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues
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The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to release its own records.
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Uvalde #SchoolShooting #School #Education #Safety #Students #Lawsuit
America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ
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Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greystar-realpage-doj-settlement-landlords-apartments-software?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Rent #Housing #Algorithm #DOJ #Law
Again and again, the FDA tolerated substandard manufacturing at a Sun Pharma factory after the company promised to make changes, according to documents obtained by ProPublica. The medications kept flowing to the U.S. market.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-inspections-sun-pharma-drug-exemptions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.
Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drugs-banned-foreign-factories-list?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FDA #Medicine #Health #Diabetes #Cancer #Depression #Anxiety #HIV
Frustrated by oil companies mysteriously withholding large amounts of royalties, North Dakota mineral owners lobbied for change.
Instead, lawmakers provided an oversight program that, owners say, fails to address the issue it was created to solve.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-oil-gas-oversight-mineral-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.
https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Veterans #Health #Medicine #Trump #Government #DOGE
Israel Secretly Recruited Iranian Dissidents to Attack Their Country From Within
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Operations in the decadeslong secret war between Iran and Israel have shifted fundamentally in recent years, moving from being the exclusive work of Mossad field agents to Iranian dissident insiders and others from neighboring countries.
https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-iran-war-mossad-iranian-recruits
Here's what to know about David Barnea, director of the Mossad, who led Israel’s efforts to recruit Iranian dissidents to attack the country from within. https://www.propublica.org/article/david-barnea-mossad
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