Sitting at Ponysaurus Brewing Co., we filed to start a private school. www.propublica.org/article/prop...

Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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I've been a reporter for a long time and this might be the strangest thing I've ever done. We've been reporting on privatization of schools this year and found that just about anyone can open a private school in most states. So we asked, Could reporters do it?

Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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After a man died, I went through escalator safety data looking for trends, which needless to say is a grim task. But very cool: after seeing @nbcboston.com's story, this guy leapt into action after seeing another stuck person and saved her life. www.nbcboston.com/investigatio...

Good Samaritan meets woman he helped when she was trapped in MBTA escalator

The commuter who pressed an emergency stop button to help a woman caught at the bottom of an MBTA escalator spoke with the NBC10 Boston Investigators. It is the exact same location where a man died in...

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If you read only one story today, please make it this one. Paywall is lifted. So is the registration wall. By Olivia Carville for @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

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A Lively Discussion of Higher Education at The Assembly’s First Article Club Event greensborothread.com/events/a-liv...

A Lively Discussion of Higher Education at The Assembly’s First Article Club Event

The Assembly's Higher Education team gathered in Greensboro to discuss three-year degrees with readers.

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I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why: 1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Awful news this morning — one of Oregon's best reporters has passed away, all too young. His absence will be felt by the media and by the public at large. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Zane Sparling, reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive, dies of cancer at 33

“He wanted his identity to be a reporter, and that’s what it was,” his father said.

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I have a new story out today: Pinellas sex assault victims couldn’t get rape kits overnight — for a year. After I began asking questions, that changed. Advocates are outraged calling this “a massive failure” www.tampabay.com/investigatio...

Pinellas sex assault victims couldn’t get rape kits at night — for a year

Suncoast Center didn’t staff nurses to provide critical forensic exams, records show. Advocates are outraged.

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The Washington Post gutted the health team which I helped to lead despite our stories being among the most widely read, impactful and adept at reaching new audiences.

Minnesotans following and documenting ICE activity here have been detained, pulled out of their cars, hit with chemicals, had agents route them to their homes and take photos. Even after the killings of two observers, they aren't stopping. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Minneapolis ICE observers keep showing up despite risk of arrest and violence

Bystanders say they are determined to keep recording federal agents’ actions: ‘There will be absolutely no accountability unless people are documenting’

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New: Just how furious are Americans about ICE? Sewing influencers, bourbon vloggers and the mod of r/catbongos are all taking a political stand. "I refuse to wake up in five or 10 years and look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘You had a platform and did nothing,'" a golf YouTuber told me

Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces

Fury over Alex Pretti’s killing has flooded the internet’s most apolitical venues, reflecting a growing outrage over the Trump administration’s crackdown.

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“What are you doing?” one woman yelled. “You just shot someone and now you’re terrorizing us. What more can we take?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘You ask us for peace, we get shot in the face’: Minneapolis in turmoil after federal agents kill second US citizen

Federal agents released chemicals into the air and arrested people after they had shot and killed a 37-year-old man

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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

When ICE came onto campus at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, high school journalist Lila Dominguez wrote about it. “Being a student in Minneapolis right now can be really scary,” she said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘My hands were really shaky’: high-school journalist documents ICE raids

Lila Dominguez was working on an article as agents came on to school grounds – their presence has jolted Minneapolis’s young people

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Back in Oct, we tallied 20+ citizens who’ve been grabbed and held for more than a day *without being able to contact a lawyer or loved one.* These are only the cases we happened to hear about. Before Minneapolis. The admins has released no data or details. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Maria I. Puerta Riera 🌻@maripuerta.com · 9mo ago

St. Paul woman, U.S. citizen, released from ICE detention after two days www.twincities.com/2026/01/17/s...

From before dawn to the middle of the night, here’s what it’s like on the ground in Minneapolis during this ICE surge - and how residents are fighting against it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Make no mistake, this is an occupation’: ICE’s deadly presence casts long shadow over Minneapolis

Classrooms have emptied, shops have shut, and the mood is tense – but as the federal operation has ramped up, so has residents’ response

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Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

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I live in the Twin Cities. I have been talking to observers for weeks, and a lot this week, about what they're seeing. I was on the scene after the shooting yesterday. Here's what it looks like to live here now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘This is not normal’: Minneapolis on edge and angry after ICE killing of woman amid federal surge

City targeted by Trump has seen swarm of immigration agents on the streets – and residents say the tension is palpable

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Reupping this, #Minnesota - my DMs are also open. Interested in how people are providing aid to neighbors, leads on where you're seeing ICE activity, stuff on the ground that you think needs more attention

Rachel Leingang@rachelleingang.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#Minnesota: I am a Guardian reporter, based here in the Minneapolis area. I want to hear about what you're seeing, hearing, feeling and want you think needs to be covered. You can find me on Signal: rachelleingang.241 or by email at rachel.leingang@theguardian.com

ICYMI, @rachelleingang.bsky.social talks about the fatal shooting of a civilian by an ICE agent in Minneapolis and the Trump administration's focus on Minnesota: www.wnyc.org/story/minnea...

'Minneapolis on Edge' | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC

Rachel Leingang, Midwest political correspondent for Guardian US, talks about how Minneapolis is "on edge" after the fatal shooting of a civilian by an ICE agent.

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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored

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NEW INVESTIGATION: Insurance companies use hidden rules to slash disaster survivors' payouts. The @sfchronicle.com obtained hundreds of internal records showing how insurers including State Farm cut claims payments to LA fire victims. Read more (gift link): tinyurl.com/y4fpza2p 1/

California insurers slash wildfire claims with hidden rules

California insurers use these hidden rules to slash wildfire payouts. Lawmakers are largely unaware.

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This year’s #PulitzerStaffPicks feature 18 reporting projects supported through our Climate and Environment focus area. The stories feature global issues on forests, mountains, and marine ecosystems, but also hyper-local stories. Learn more! 👉 bit.ly/YIStories25

Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

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During the fight to defeat amendments 3 (marijuana) and 4 (abortion) last year, Gov. DeSantis’ administration spent at least $36.2 million in taxpayer funds: www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads

During the fight to defeat amendments 3 and 4 last year, Gov. DeSantis’ administration spent at least $36.2 million in taxpayer funds.

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In the outside world, cataract surgeries are considered minor and typically take 15 minutes. In Florida prisons, inmates can spend years waiting and go blind before they ever get surgery. tampabay.com/news/health/...

Florida inmates were denied eye surgery for years. Some were left blind

Florida Department of Corrections and Centurion of Florida sued for failing to provide basic eye surgeries.

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Reading about smoking ban proposals before the tobacco master settlement in 1998 is always a trip: www.nytimes.com/1984/02/15/u...