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Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out. When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop. Then things got weird. Read more (with Capitol News Illinois): https://propub.li/4vHjv3k

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Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine. Read more: https://propub.li/4cG15HK

Ahead of this year’s midterm elections, President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that helped to prevent him from overturning the 2020 election. At least 75 career staff are gone. Two dozen appointees — many from the election denial movement — have been hired, including 10 who helped try to challenge the 2020 vote. Experts say 2026 will serve as an unprecedented stress test of the integrity of American elections. “Our election system withstood” Trump’s “attacks following the 2020 election,” said one politician, “but this will be an even tougher test, with more election deniers having access to federal power than ever before.” Read the full story: https://propub.li/3QiQ8UY (📸: Illustrations by Matt Rota and Henrike Lendowski for ProPublica)

Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago. Read more: https://propub.li/4tRDMBz

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How did the operations by masked and heavily armed federal agents, sometimes backed by the U.S. military, unfold in major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis? And how did protesters and bystanders who are U.S. citizens get caught up in the crackdown? Those questions are at the center of this documentary collaboration from FRONTLINE PBS and ProPublica. 🎥 Now streaming on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gACugaeR

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A new investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE PBS examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said. Read more: https://propub.li/4dSbHFJ

Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment. Read more: https://propub.li/3OcnXGG