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National Magazine Award, Finalists

🎉 ProPublica is a finalist for five 2026 National Magazine Awards!

We're nominated in the general excellence, video, reporting, public interest and best illustrated stories categories.

See our entries below ⤵️

Big protest at the Lincoln Monument. Seven D.C. high schools walked out to come here.

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt if they continue defying court orders in immigration cases.

"One way or another, ICE will comply." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Follow the money. And IIRC, Epstein accused his friend Trump of laundering money for the Russians when he bought the estate Epstein wanted in Florida.

Trump Media's stock price is falling even faster than his poll numbers Now the president wants to spin off his struggling social media platform.

Trump's company reported just $3.6 million in revenue for all of 2024.

For context, a well-run McDonald’s franchise averages a roughly similar level of revenue.

STAND WITH UKRAINE 💙💛

4 years ago Vika Honcharuk was living her dream life as an investment banking analyst on Wall Street in New York

Then 🇷🇺 invaded her homeland!

She spoke to Yalda Hakim about her decision to return to 🇺🇦 & re-train as a medic

On the frontline Viktoriia treated both 🇺🇦🇷🇺 soldiers

Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control."
spiegel.de/politik/ausl...

Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigrat...

In 2010, an undocumented farmworker from Mexico received a misdemeanor citation for leaving his two young kids alone to buy them pajamas at Walmart.

The Trump administration says this now merits deportation in a potentially wide-reaching court case.

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

At the risk of being serious, I think this U.S. poll relates to what just happened in that UK election www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas

Elon Musk, 54, has quietly built an empire of more than 90 companies and other legal entities in Texas, which have amassed a vast collection of assets, a great deal of it gifted to him by Texas, courtesy of the Texas GOP.

Good fucking morning to everybody except the DHS social media guy who spent all day spreading lies about the blind man ICE killed. The agents were reckless and never should have kidnapped him in the first place. You’re complicit in his death and should be ashamed of yourself.

Sarah Eckhardt Wants to Return the Texas Comptroller to the Bob Bullock Era The Democratic candidate hopes to bring the statewide accountant’s office back to its rightful role—independently enforcing good government.

The Texas Comptroller's office has long been seen as a backwater and a waystation for ambitious politicians seeking higher office. But when wielded in the proper way—as an engine of good, clean, efficient government—it can be a powerful post.

Holy shit.

This Columbia president was seen as a tool of the wealthy business board that doesn’t care about Columbia academics.

For her to make this video now calling out the Trump administration explicitly is huge. My first reaction is it reflects how far Trump public support has fallen.

Tax them out of existence.

If you're not okay with this, you're wrong.

Kash Patel Faces Backlash After Partying With Nancy Guthrie’s Captors WASHINGTON—As shocking footage surfaced of his participation in the rowdy celebration, FBI director Kash Patel faced backlash Thursday after he was seen partying with the captors of Nancy Guthrie. “I ...

“I was honored to have been invited to the isolated cabin where Savannah Guthrie’s mother has been strapped to a cot for almost a month,” said FBI director Kash Patel

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

This is encouraging news.

Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns Vice President JD Vance has announced that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an agg...

This is deeply illegal, breaking the Medicaid statute and the ICA.

States are entitled to funding from federal govt to help pay for Medicaid. Providing less than the statute calls for is open and shut illegal, more akin to the impoundments Nixon lost unilaterally before SCOTUS than anything so far.

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

No regulation. No oversight. Just endless streams of money for AI and also Crypto. These industries are giving MILLIONS to both Democrats and Republicans.

What could go wrong?

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Add this to the other ICE homicides. This time they released a Burmese blind man in Buffalo in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere. His corpse was discovered several hours later. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

So the racist Obamas as apes meme that Trump posted was made by one of his staffers inside the White House.

This isn't just about conflicts of interest and whether or not she'll be profiting in office.

It's about her having a clear record of endorsing faulty products in exchange for compensation. It's about her being completely unworthy of an office that requires public trust.

Outrageously inappropriate.

One big problem with Trumps “retirement plan.” They will match up to 1000 per year… but now companies can dump their employees off the company plan which matches way more…. Onto the govt plan.

It’s a corporate handout… again

An unveiling ceremony was held on Wednesday recognizing the significant contributions of San Antonio Lodge No.1, the first Masonic Lodge for African Americans in Texas on the city’s East side in honor of Black History Month.

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See how thunderstorms create ghostly UV sparks on the tips of trees Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature

Scientists observe coronal discharges in forests during thunderstorms for the first time.

Judge blocks DOJ from searching Washington Post reporter's phone and laptop A federal magistrate judge has blocked the DOJ from searching through a Washington Post reporter's devices after they were seized by the FBI last month, instead ruling that the court would conduct a s...

Judge blocks Trump Admin from searching Washington Post reporter's phone and laptop

www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-b...

Sarah Eckhardt Wants to Return the Texas Comptroller to the Bob Bullock Era The Democratic candidate hopes to bring the statewide accountant’s office back to its rightful role—independently enforcing good government.

State Senator Sarah Eckhardt, an Austin Democrat and former Travis County judge, hopes to revive a more Bullockian comptrollership as she vies to become the latest Democratic nominee for the position, which is semi-vacant for the first time in 12 years.

Four of them are Minnesota guys — three from the cities and one (Nelson) who is part of Minnesy’s Royal family of hockey. Perhaps not a coincidence.