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Microsoft’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was “Breach of Trust” — ProPublica

Microsoft’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was “Breach of Trust” — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Pentagon issued a “letter of concern” to Microsoft documenting a “breach of trust” over the company’s use of China-based engineers to maintain sensitive government computer systems, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced this week. At the same time, …

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Amid Redistricting Fight, Texas Helps Trump Test New Legal Tactic — ProPublica

Amid Redistricting Fight, Texas Helps Trump Test New Legal Tactic — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. Reporting …

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Lawmaker Calls for Explanation of Inconsistent Forest Service Staffing Data — ProPublica

Lawmaker Calls for Explanation of Inconsistent Forest Service Staffing Data — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. The top Democrat on a House committee is demanding that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins account for discrepancies between her public statements about wildland firefighter staffing and a ProPublica report …

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Funding for Landmark Maternal Health Program, ERASE MM, Is at Risk — ProPublica

Funding for Landmark Maternal Health Program, ERASE MM, Is at Risk — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Seven years ago, when President Donald Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act into law, it was hailed as a crucial step toward addressing the nation’s maternal mortality crisis. The law pumped tens of millions of dollars a …

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Investigation Underway After Two Women Fell Ill at RAADFest, a Las Vegas Anti-Aging Conference — ProPublica

Investigation Underway After Two Women Fell Ill at RAADFest, a Las Vegas Anti-Aging Conference — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. They went to a Las Vegas conference this month that promised pathways to an “unlimited lifespan.” But at least two attendees left in ambulances and were hospitalized in critical …

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Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Take Action on Flooding — ProPublica

Texas Lawmakers Repeatedly Failed to Take Action on Flooding — ProPublica

This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans. Sign up for The Brief Weekly to get up to speed on their essential coverage of Texas issues. Sixteen months had passed since Hurricane Harvey tore through the Texas coast in August 2017, killing more than 80 people and flattening entire …

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Microsoft Stops Using China-Based Engineers for DOD Computer Systems, Company Says — ProPublica

Microsoft Stops Using China-Based Engineers for DOD Computer Systems, Company Says — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Microsoft says it has stopped using China-based engineers to support Defense Department cloud computing systems after ProPublica revealed the practice in an investigation this week. “In response to concerns raised earlier this week about US-supervised foreign engineers, Microsoft …

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Microsoft to stop using engineers in China for tech support of U.S. military after ProPublica report – Reuters

Microsoft to stop using engineers in China for tech support of U.S. military after ProPublica report  Reuters GOP senator asks Pentagon for information on Microsoft’s Chinese engineers  The Hill A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers  ProPublica Top US senator calls out supply-chain risk with DoD contractors  Yahoo Finance Microsoft Cuts Off China Employees from Pentagon Business  The Information Source …

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Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles — ProPublica

Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was adapted from David Epstein’s Substack newsletter, “Range Widely,” and references the story “The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene” that he wrote for ProPublica in 2016. That story also became an episode of …

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