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New York Focus • 25th August 2026

NY Union Gives Millions to Its Bosses, Pennies to Rank-and-File

Last year, nine people — all of them men — made more than $1 million as labor union officers. Five of them ran unions that represent professional athletes and Hollywood actors, many of whom are millionaires themselves.

New York Focus • 25th August 2026

Nursing Home Chain Violates $45M Settlement With New York

The photos were shocking: Four Buffalo nursing home residents, partially undressed, in heavily soiled clothing. They were “covered in black feces and soaked in urine,” with “fire red” skin, an inspection report later found.

New York Focus • 19th May 2026

New York's Beds for Unaccompanied Minors Evaporate as Feds End Contracts

The Trump administration has eliminated funding to at least five New York nonprofits that collectively took in more than $600 million over the past five years to house unaccompanied immigrant children.

New York Focus • 4th February 2026

Staff at Youth Prison Recount Lockdowns, Turmoil, 24-Hour Shifts

Under state regulations, boys incarcerated at the 130-bed complex are supposed to spend their days in class, participate in vocational programs, and socialize with peers in their housing unit.

NBC News • 14th June 2024

How a major public hospital is protecting doctors by silencing the patients who accuse them

She hadn’t quite turned 19 and had just started college when Hana Hooper found out she was dying. An echocardiogram revealed the telltale signs in grayscale images of an enlarged heart chamber, its walls stretched thin.

The New York Times • 30th March 2022

Opinion | This Rap Song Helped Sentence a 17-Year-Old to Prison for Life

Tommy Munsdwell Canady was in middle school when he wrote his first rap lyrics. He started out freestyling for friends and family, and after two of his cousins were fatally shot, he found solace in making music.

NBC News • 15th May 2025

Up against Musk's Colossus supercomputer, a Memphis neighborhood fights for clean air

Homes without indoor plumbing. Few streetlights. Virtually no public transportation. Half a century ago, residents of Boxtown, a neighborhood in South Memphis settled by formerly enslaved families, felt forgotten by the modern age. But no longer.

Business Insider • 18th May 2023

Her son said his stepdad was sexually abusive. A judge gave the stepdad custody anyway. Then she found the photographs.

In the summer of 2020, when he was 12, the boy told his therapist something he'd never told anyone else. For years, Robert claimed, his stepdad had sexually abused him.

The New Yorker • 28th April 2021

Bridging the Divide Between the Police and the Policed

Alicka Ampry-Samuel works out of a two-story office building overlooking an expanse of vacant land, in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. She grew up a few blocks away, in one of the area’s nearly two dozen public-housing complexes.

NBC News • 18th September 2025

Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate

In the week since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, MAGA influencers and GOP lawmakers have pushed for swift consequences against anyone who makes light of his killing — and professors, teachers and school staff members have come under particular scrutiny.

The Intercept • 30th January 2019

Prisons Across the U.S. Are Quietly Building Databases of Incarcerated People’s Voice Prints

Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases and offering him a strange choice: He could go up to the phone and utter the phrases that an automated voice would ask him to read, or he could choose not to and lose his phone access altogether.

Mother Jones • 26th October 2020

Payday lenders gave Trump millions. Then he helped them cash in on the working poor.

Mike Hodges was still a small fry among payday lenders when Donald Trump visited Hodges’ hometown of Nashville in 2018.

The Appeal • 17th April 2019

Good Samaritans Punished for Offering Lifesaving Help to Migrants

In recent years, the number of people federally charged with smuggling and harboring has jumped nearly a third.

Vanity Fair • 15th October 2024

On Donald Trump's Coattails, America’s Neo-Nazi Youth Is Flowering in Active Clubs and the Prison System

Brandon Russell’s letters were detailed: first a how-to diagram for building a functional explosive device. Then instructions for dropping propaganda leaflets by air.

The Appeal • 12th July 2018

Before Children’s Grisly Deaths, a Family Fought for Them and Lost

Two neighbor kids bang on Sherry Davis’s door. They’ve seen her come home and know she can be counted on for handing out the little packs of Starburst she keeps nearby.

NBC News • 7th June 2024

Meet the anti-abortion group using white coats and research to advance its cause

On a winter day less than two years after the fall of Roe v. Wade, Dr. Ingrid Skop beamed at a crowd of anti-abortion activists gathered at the Texas Capitol.

The New York Times • 25th September 2021

Long Hours, Low Pay, Loneliness and a Booming Industry

The ranks of home health aides are expected to grow more than any other job in the next decade. What kind of work are they being asked to do? For 15 years, Yvette Dessin spent long work days with her elderly patients, accompanying them on walks, cooking them meals and bathing those who needed that most intimate kind of care.

Type Investigations • 15th March 2021

A Former Trump Operative Used GiveSendGo to Push Claims of Election Fraud and Rake in Hundreds of Thousands - Type Investigations

As such, it has become a go-to fundraising vehicle for some Trump supporters and far-right groups looking to solicit money online.

NBC News • 25th April 2024

American boys say they were beaten and starved at Jamaican school for troubled teens

Boys at an American-run school for troubled teens in Jamaica were beaten by adult staff members, forced to exercise until they vomited and placed in stress positions for hours at a time, according to former students, their parents and attorneys assisting them.

Slate Magazine • 30th April 2021

Limited English Skills Can Mean Limited Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine

In New York City’s Chinatown, a city-run vaccination site with no signage or intake questions in Chinese. In California, non-English speakers handed COVID-19 vaccination cards without information on what they mean.

City & State NY • 21st February 2021

Did New York let doctors get away with sexual misconduct?

Around 2009, a 16-year-old girl went to a clinic in New York City for her first gynecology exam. The doctor, a middle-aged man, disarmed her with awkward, self-deprecating jokes.

Type Investigations • 24th July 2023

A Death Ruled “Justifiable”: The Killing of John Wesley Wilder

In July 1965, police officer Edward Nugent encountered John Wesley Wilder, a Black man, outside a cafe in Ruston, Louisiana.

1st July 2019

‘A Town Without Pity’: Lawsuits Allege Police Cover-up of Sex Abuse by Officers in Maine

In October 2014, Matt Lauzon walked into the police station in his hometown of Biddeford, Maine, with a long-held secret. He was determined, finally, to tell investigators that one of their officers had sexually abused him nearly 15 years earlier, when he was a teenager.

Type Investigations • 21st June 2021

The Dangers of Working While Black on Wall Street - Type Investigations

At 3:30 AM on a warm fall morning in 2009, Glenn D. Capel, a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, was speeding down the Interstate in his Lexus LS 400 from his home in Greensboro, N.C., toward Candor, 75 miles away.