In a special article for US investigative website ProPublica, Kiera Feldman of Voice of America tells the story of how an immigrant from Guinea met a terrible end in the Bronx in New York.

A candidate in a special election campaign in Arizona targeted ads at people across the country who “liked” the pages of liberal icons. Jeremy B. Merrill of US investigative website ProPublica reports.

Hurricanes Irma and Maria slammed the Virgin Islands within days of each other, leaving almost everyone without power, internet or phones. Still, The Virgin Islands Daily News pressed on. ProPublica's Jessica Huseman reports.

The changes follow the launch of a crowdsourcing effort earlier this month by US news and investigative website ProPublica to collect political advertising from Facebook. ProPublica's Julia Angwin reports.

The first results in a US-wide effort to better measure the levels of contaminants released through the burning of munitions and their waste show elevated levels of lead, arsenic and other toxins. Abrahm Lustgarten of US investigative website ProPublica reports.

The Trump administration encouraged prosecutors to seek felony charges against those who re-enter the US after being deported. US investigative website ProPublica recounts the case of a Bucks County gardener, who government employees felt half-hearted about turning from an immigrant into a criminal.

The top US federal law enforcement agency, the FBI, is overwhelmingly made up of white staff, a fact which one of its top officials told US investigative website ProPublica is “a huge operational risk”, and which in the words of a former director had created a “crisis”.

A senior official with the Red Cross in America harassed a subordinate and was accused of raping another, yet the charity’s now-general counsel praised him on his way to a new for his “leadership” and “dedication”, recounts US investigative site ProPublica in a report illustrating the unsettling way many employers dealt with such allegations against ranking male executives. 

False reporting of rape is a crime, one that some police would like to make a priority, but history shows the police can’t always tell the truth from a lie, finds US investigative site ProPublica in this report on the ordeal of some victims and the campaigns to change the approach of police.

The recent devastating monster storms that were Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma also whipped up a number of falsehoods. US news and investigative website ProPublica talked with Jane Lytvynenko, a reporter with weathered experience of trying to hold on to the facts.