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FEMA officials said they didn't want their housing program for survivors of Maui's 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn't bar the agency's contractors from leasing properties previously occupied by long-term tenants.

Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who've been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. "Those of us who have been here for years get nothing," said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.

Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi's case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Despite the attorney general's declaration that Illinois schools should stop using police to discipline students, officers statewide continue to ticket kids with costly fines. One lawmaker will again pursue legislation to end the practice.

ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state's tax credit donation program.

Amid reports of thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths, Lincare was supposed to supply the most ailing patients with new CPAP machines, but instead diverted the devices to new customers who would deliver greater profits for the company.

Storage programs are meant to protect people's property rights and allow them to reclaim their possessions. But they rarely accomplish either objective, according to a ProPublica investigation of cities with the largest homeless populations.

In a letter, the state's public health commissioner said the action was taken because "confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outside individuals."

Chicago police agreed to judicial oversight in 2019. Since then, a series of mayors and police chiefs let efforts languish and no one in a position of oversight has pushed forcefully to keep the process on track, WTTW News and ProPublica found.

The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica's reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it "does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs."