Kentucky Grapples with Medicaid Fraud After Loosening Addiction Treatment Controls, Billions Spent Amid Life-Saving Efforts

By the end of 2020, Kentucky’s newly elected Gov. Andy Beshear faced an unprecedented public health crisis, with one overarching objective: to keep Kentuckians alive. The state was simultaneously battling…

Senate Leaders Demand Answers from Federal Regulators on Unreported Fatal Bus Crashes and Deficient Safety Oversight

Two prominent Democrats on the U.S. Senate committee responsible for overseeing transportation safety have intensified their scrutiny of the nation’s bus regulator, pressing for irrefutable evidence of its capacity to…

My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed

The journey to understand the origins of the food on our plates often leads to uncomfortable truths, particularly concerning the labor practices underpinning America’s vast agricultural industry. For one ProPublica…

The AI-Fueled Cyber Reckoning: Microsoft’s Desperate Race Against an Unprecedented Deluge of Software Vulnerabilities

In the middle of May, a palpable sense of urgency permeated an online and in-person gathering of Microsoft engineers and managers at the company’s sprawling Redmond, Washington, headquarters. The focus…