The number of fatal shootings in the US are decreasing according to one set of official figures, while other US government data shows an increase in the numbers of people shot. Investigative website ProPublica reports on the confusion that is obscuring the truth amid the hotly-debated issue of gun crime.
One lesson of Heartbleed is that the US needs to stop running internet security like a Wikipedia volunteer project, concludes American investigative website ProPublica in this report on the major security problems raised by the computer security bug.
US investigative website ProPublica publishes some tips on how to mask the information about your location that your computer and phone transmit automatically.
Blue-collar temp labourers in the US face abuses similar to those of migrant farmworkers depicted in the iconic 1960 CBS documentary 'Harvest of Shame', and many of today’s temp workers earn roughly the same amount as those farmworkers did 50 years ago, reports American website ProPublica in this investigation in collaboration with VICE News.
Documents show the NSA and its British counterpart have been probing advertiser data on smartphone apps, which can include your gender, income, and even whether you’re a 'swinger'. Here, US investigative news and features site ProPublica answers the FAQs about the scouring of smartphone apps.
Jabbar Collins spent 16 years in a US prison for murder before he won his freedom and a chance to take on the prosecutor who put him behind bars. US investigative website ProPublica examines the career of that prosecutor, Michael Vecchione, and the allegations levelled against him.
US investigative website ProPublica takes a look beyond the US presidential election candidates' rhetoric — or lack of it — to find out what their positions on climate change really are.
Following the killing on September 11th of US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other embassy officials, at the start of a wave of violent protests in the Muslim world against an anti-Islam film made in the US, investigative news and features website ProPublica has compiled a series of links to in-depth reporting of the assassinations, US-Libya relations post-Gaddafi and about the video at the centre of the troubles.
As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. The more than $40 billion of deals helped fuel the crash of 2008. Now, recently collected emails from bankers and a Magnetar executive involved in some of the deals appear to shed new light on how they did it.
