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Police knew 15-year-old Maylia Sotelo was selling fake Percocet but didn’t stop her. Jack McDonough was 17 years old when his mom sought the right treatment for his addiction but couldn’t find it. These two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade.

A little known Connecticut law allowed towing companies to sell cars in as little as 15 days. Then two reporters started asking questions. On Ep. 2 of “Paper Trail,” we take you through their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation: propub.li/4up7m1Z

WATCH: On Jan. 31, hundreds of families gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, to protest immigration enforcement. We spoke with two brothers, ages 11 and 15, who attended the protest and described being tear-gassed firsthand.

Mike Collins is running for Senate on a promise to make roads safer — by taking commercial driver’s licenses away from noncitizens. Our analysis shows his business has a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations per mile than the majority of trucking companies with substantial mileage.

On May 2, agents followed Leonardo Garcia Venegas back to his home because they didn’t believe his claims of citizenship or that the REAL ID he showed them was legitimate. It was familiar territory: He’d already been detained twice. 🔗 Read more: propub.li/3Ppaufa

After reporter Megan Rose uncovered problematic generic versions of organ transplant drugs, she had to tell a mom that her daughter’s medications could have played a role in her death. It wasn’t easy. 👉️ Hear the full story in Ep. 1 of “Paper Trail”: propub.li/4wOngoq

WATCH: Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD

ProPublica and @ctmirror.org have won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for the series “On the Hook,” which exposed a wide range of abuses committed by Connecticut towing companies. Listen to reporters Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk and editor Michael Grabell celebrate the win:

NEW: Introducing “Paper Trail,” ProPublica’s new podcast. Each episode, we’ll take you inside an investigation, uncovering hidden facts and secrets — and doing what we do best: showing you the receipts. ▶️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. First episode drops May 14: propub.li/42ULaRa

#ICYMI, we’ve got a new look! 👀 What hasn’t changed: our commitment to investigative reporting in the public interest, our independence and the rigor we bring to every story. More on our redesign: propub.li/48Mehtw

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

WATCH: A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica's @robert-faturechi.bsky.social reached out to a Canadian defense official and a Latvian businessman tied to Ukraine. The impostor wasn’t after money, but confidential information. So the real Faturechi did some reporting of his own.

Four female patients complained to the state’s medical commission about OG-GYN Dr. Mark Mulholland from 2022 through 2024. Because the board waited until September 2025 to restrict Mulholland’s license, he kept practicing — and seeing more patients who would later file complaints.

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

April Wilkens has spent 27 years behind bars for killing her ex-fiancé — after years of abuse, stalking and calls to the police that went nowhere. Her story underscores a legal experiment in Oklahoma, where a new law called the Oklahoma Survivors’ Act offers prisoners like her a chance at freedom.

Cherise Doyley, a mother of three, was in labor at a Florida hospital when she had to attend a virtual court hearing to decide how she'd give birth. Doyley had no lawyer or advocate — no one to explain to her what, exactly, was going on. Read our full investigation: propub.li/3PRyLuf

WATCH: Cherise Doyley, a mother of three, was in labor at a Florida hospital when a nurse brought her a tablet. On the screen were a judge and several lawyers, doctors and hospital staff. Doyley wanted to have a vaginal birth. They wanted to force her to undergo a C-section.

WATCH: ProPublica & @denvergazette.com reporters bought vape products from dispensaries in Colorado and documented how some may have been made from chemically converted hemp — a cheaper alternative to marijuana that can carry potential health risks.

A Dept. of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica set new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cited no new science, instead relying on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government. Listen to former Navy fighter pilot Jack Gelman's story:

WATCH: In the first 7 months of Trump’s second term, authorities detained the parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace has held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention.

The more that @gingerthompson.bsky.social investigated Albany, Georgia, the more she began to wonder: How is it that people in Albany are so sick when the dominant institution in town is a hospital? Read her five-part investigation here: propub.li/40Nmnxz

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

WATCH: Fourteen-year-old Ariana spent more than 45 days at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. In January, we asked detainees whether their children would be willing to write letters or draw pictures about their experiences. Listen to Ariana tell her story: 📽️ @joannashan.bsky.social

Before she died, Clifford Thomas promised his mother he’d keep his family healthy. But in Albany, Georgia — a poor city with a hospital monopoly and no Medicaid expansion — that promise is a daily battle. Watch our full documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgC...

⬇️ For your consideration: Watch to learn about the $220M taxpayer-funded ad campaign that's tied to a mysterious Delaware LLC and a horse named Gill. More details: propub.li/4uoc28E

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept. Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

In January, we went inside the Dilley detention center. Children shared letters describing the anguish of being ripped from their lives: propub.li/4cUHm8L After publishing that story, we learned about Edison, a 13-year-old from Chicago detained for 2+ months. Listen to Edison in his own words 👇

Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver — nicknamed “Bitcoin Jesus” — was facing federal criminal charges for tax evasion in one of the largest crypto tax fraud cases ever. That was, until he sought the services of a select club of Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to DOJ appointees.

📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas. Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind. Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6

On Saturday, Jan. 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. Our photojournalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social were on the ground in Minneapolis, covering events in the days surrounding Pretti’s death. This is what they witnessed. Read more: https://propub.li/3ZjL7wH

Ciji Graham’s is the seventh case ProPublica has investigated in which a pregnant woman died after she was unable to access standard care in a state that has significantly restricted abortion. Read her story: https://propub.li/4r4VQr4

We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Alex Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. Read our full story: https://propub.li/4qUNfXH

Our investigation found 40+ cases in which federal immigration agents used chokeholds or other moves that can restrict someone’s breathing: https://propub.li/4rq51BV We showed video clips from our reporting to Marc Brown, a law enforcement expert. This is what he said.