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- 9
- Reach
- 8
- Editorial
- 10
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- 9
- Access
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- Cadence
- 8
- Independence
- 9
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Latest from ProPublica
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- How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
- Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
- A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.
- Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
- “They’re Putting Kids’ Lives at Risk”: How Abuse in a Tennessee Businessman’s Juvenile Prisons Remained Under Wraps
- Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone?
- More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.
- House Democrats Demand Answers From Trump’s VA on Vets Struggling to Access Mental Healthcare
- What Is the Trump Administration Doing With Foreign Aid Money?
- He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
- James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising Questions.
- Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?
- Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has Power Over Is Falling Apart.
- The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.
- The EPA Spent Millions Cleaning Up a Massive Superfund Site. Our Tests Found Toxic Levels of Lead in Many Yards.
Where it sits in World & Politics
- #1 ProPublica90.5
- #2 Bellingcat88.5
- #3 Rest of World87.5