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Who is the man shaping President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism strategy?

Sebastian Gorka has one of the most powerful national security jobs in the White House. For six months, ProPublica reporter Hannah Allam tracked his public statements to understand how the administration is reorienting national security priorities — and why many counterterrorism experts are concerned.

This is what she learned.

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Help us report on school vouchers.

If you’ve used or considered voucher programs, which allow private schools to receive public money, what has it been like searching for schools? Are you satisfied with the process, or have you encountered barriers? How are you navigating your options? Are you still looking?

Our goal is to hear from as many people as possible about both benefits and challenges with voucher programs. We are especially interested in talking with parents about the application process, including experiences with waitlists and rejections. You can get in touch by heading to the link in our bio or by contacting the email address or WhatsApp number at the end of the video. We take your privacy seriously and will contact you if we wish to publish any part of your story.

Our team is reporting on the changing education landscape and voucher programs. Lawmakers promised these would give families more options, but we’ve talked to parents like Susannah Scott, who couldn’t use Oklahoma’s voucher program for students with disabilities because local private schools wouldn’t accept her son. We’ve also heard of schools not accepting students for other reasons, such as LGBTQ+ or religious identity, English-language proficiency or disciplinary history.

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Black liquid bubbling up through the foundation of one family’s dream home. Toxic drinking water. And dead livestock. In Oklahoma, oil field wastewater is causing a massive underground pollution crisis that is rising to the surface and threatening communities across the state.

Watch the full documentary, "Toxic Ground," on our YouTube channel.
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The United States is the largest oil and gas producer in the world. A toxic byproduct of all that drilling — billions of gallons of oil field wastewater — is rising to the surface and threatening communities across Oklahoma.

For decades, energy companies have disposed of this briny, chemical-laden fluid by injecting it deep underground. Now, it’s contaminating drinking water, blasting out of old wells and even bubbling through the floor of one family’s dream home.

In "Toxic Ground," a new investigative documentary from The Frontier and ProPublica, reporter Nick Bowlin crisscrosses the state to uncover the impact of this environmental crisis on Oklahomans.

Oklahoma’s oil field wastewater problem is a stark warning for oil-and-gas-producing states across the country: What happens when over a century of drilling catches up with us?

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00:00 - Introduction to "Toxic Ground"
01:16 - Wastewater floods a family home
02:16 - A Trillion-Gallon Potential Crisis
03:00 - Oklahoma’s oil field wastewater problem
04:34 - Why the Merediths can’t go home
06:09 - Where and why do wastewater purges happen?
07:34 - What's in this water?
09:40 - Another family faces unsafe drinking water
14:31 - Investigating the state regulator
16:39 - The families fight for answers
19:26 - Pressing for accountability at town hall
21:38 - The future for impacted families
25:36 - Credits
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On Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s daughter found her curled up on the bathroom floor, bleeding during a dangerous miscarriage at 17 weeks pregnant.

Waldorf and her husband rushed to an Arkansas hospital, expecting emergency care. Instead, doctors told her they could not intervene under the state’s abortion ban because a fetal heartbeat was still present.

Doctors told her she could remain at the hospital until she got sick, or drive nearly four hours to a hospital in Kansas, which has no abortion ban.

She had worked at the Arkansas hospital for the past six years. She was a highly educated 38-year-old woman with connections to the governor. Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she still could not get care.

As she lay in a hospital bed, worried that infection could enter her uterus at any moment, she finally understood that the ban now applied to anyone losing a baby.
Watch her tell her story.

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After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife sought coverage for his mental health treatment. Then, his insurance carrier refused to pay for his care.

In this episode of “Paper Trail,”, healthcare reporter Duaa Eldeib tells the story of one couple’s long battle with their health insurer — and the little-known tool hidden that helped them finally win.

Follow along as we dig, document and expose what impacts you. Subscribe to our brand-new podcast, “Paper Trail” — hosted by investigative reporter Jessica Lussenhop — on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

🎵: Julian Sartorius

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¿Por qué agentes de inmigración han detenido tres veces a este ciudadano estadounidense?

El 2 de mayo, agentes siguieron a Leonardo García Venegas hasta su casa porque no le creyeron que fuera ciudadano ni que el REAL ID que les mostró fuera legítimo. Ya era un terreno familiar: los agentes de inmigración lo habían detenido dos veces: una en mayo y otra en junio del año pasado.

Pero esta vez, después de esposarlo, lo encadenaron de manos y pies.

La misma semana de la tercera detención de García Venegas, un alto cargo de inmigración afirmó en una conferencia de seguridad fronteriza que aquellos arrestos “en los que pensábamos que se trataba de un extranjero ilegal, pero en realidad se trataba de ciudadanos estadounidenses”, no se habían producido “ni una sola vez”.

Escucha el relato de García Venegas sobre su tercera detención por parte de agentes de inmigración.

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On Jan. 31, hundreds of families gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, to protest immigration enforcement. Families say they were tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed, leaving them wheezing, coughing and struggling to breathe.

ProPublica identified 79 children across the country who were harmed by tear gas or pepper spray as immigration officers increased the weapons’ use during President Donald Trump’s historic immigration crackdown. Some suffered breathing problems, vomiting, skin irritation and respiratory issues. One infant briefly stopped breathing after being exposed.

There is no national standard that governs how law enforcement agencies use tear gas or pepper spray, allowing Department of Homeland Security officers to deploy chemical agents more freely in some cities than local police departments. Judges described the use of these “less lethal” weapons as excessive but had no power to curb them nationwide.

We spoke with two brothers, ages 11 and 15, who attended the Jan. 31 protest and described being tear-gassed firsthand. Their family asked that we not use the children’s names to protect their privacy.

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A Georgia congressman is running for Senate on a promise to make America’s roads safer — by taking commercial driver’s licenses away from noncitizens.

Mike Collins spent most of his life running a family trucking business, an identity at the forefront of his political campaign. But his policy positions on other trucking safety measures have stood at odds with the industry’s largest trade group, American Trucking Associations.

ProPublica’s analysis of federal motor vehicle data shows that Collins’ business has a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations per mile than the majority of trucking companies with substantial mileage.

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