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Mikal Mahdi was executed by a firing squad of three South Carolina Department of Corrections employees on April 11. He is seen here in 2023 at the Broad River Correctional Facility in Columbia, S.C.

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  • Investigations

A firing squad tried to shoot a prisoner in the heart. They missed, autopsy indicates

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely caused "excruciating conscious pain and suffering."

May 08, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Jeanine Pirro speaks during 2022 FOX Nation Patriot Awards in 2022 in Hollywood, Fla.

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  • Law

Trump names Fox's Pirro as interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. after dropping earlier pick

President Trump named Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro as the interim top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to replace Ed Martin.

May 08, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Left: Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward Martin during an Anacostia Coordinating Council monthly meeting in Washington, D.C., on March 25. Right: Timothy Hale-Cusanelli with a mustache resembling Adolf Hitler's in photos recovered from his cellphone by the Department of Justice.

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  • Investigations

Trump nominee gives misleading testimony about ties to alleged 'Nazi sympathizer'

Ed Martin, President Trump's pick for U.S. attorney for D.C., is distancing himself from a Jan. 6 rioter known for antisemitic views. NPR's reporting raises questions about his ties to the rioter.

May 02, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Through ICE arrests, criminal investigations, firings and executive orders, President Trump has launched a sweeping campaign of retribution. The administration has targeted over 100 perceived enemies, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (left), Dr. Anthony Fauci, former national security adviser John Bolton and Letitia James, attorney general of New York.

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  • Investigations

Trump has used government powers to target more than 100 perceived enemies

Through ICE arrests, criminal investigations, firings and executive orders, the president has launched a sweeping campaign of retribution. One judge called his actions "a shocking abuse of power."

May 01, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Growing up, Sara Blick-Nitko says she "didn't see role models" who were deaf working in science. Now she tells students—here, on stage with an American Sign Language interpreter—how a series of federal grants, known as the "Deaf Scientist Pipeline," helped her get her Ph.D. and work in a lab researching  treatments for cancer.

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  • Investigations

Deaf students had a path to science careers -- until their federal grants ended

For years, the U.S. government tried to encourage deaf people to study science. But the programs were just ended by the Trump Administration, leaving deaf students unsure about their future.

May 01, 2025
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  • Joseph Shapiro
The State Department releases the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices annually.

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  • Investigations

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

April 19, 2025
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  • Graham Smith
The CDC's Division of Viral Hepatitis was shuttered amid federal layoffs in April.

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  • Investigations

In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help

All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.

April 17, 2025
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  • Chiara Eisner
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved nearly 20,000 veterans from needlessly losing their homes.

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  • Investigations

Trump's VA is ending a rescue program that's saved 17,000 military veterans' homes

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will end a mortgage rescue plan that has saved many veterans from needlessly losing their homes, the move could strand thousands of others who need help.

April 04, 2025
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  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
Sean Murphy worked for the Department of Justice for years, and served in the group that prosecuted crimes stemming from the Jan.6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • Investigations

Why a DOJ prosecutor resigned, telling coworkers and bosses 'you serve no man'

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Murphy resigned from the Department of Justice, telling NPR, 'It just was not a Department of Justice that I any longer wanted to associate with.'"

March 22, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

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  • Investigations

South Carolina plans to carry out a firing squad execution. Is it safe for witnesses?

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for dozens of other executions. Firearms experts say that could be risky.

March 07, 2025
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  • Chiara Eisner
For nearly two decades, children in Sleetmute, Alaska, have been going to school in a building with a leaking roof. The state repeatedly ignored funding requests to fix it, and the school is now full of mold and in danger of collapse.

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  • Investigations

Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit.

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primarily serve Indigenous children.

March 07, 2025
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  • Emily Schwing
Department of Defense deputy press secretary Kingsley Wilson's account on X shows that she has thousands of followers.

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  • Investigations

A Pentagon press secretary has history of pushing antisemitic, extremist theories

Members of Congress and civil rights groups are condemning past comments from Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, including some which critics called antisemitic.

March 06, 2025
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Dan Bongino speaks onstage during Politicon 2018 at Los Angeles Convention Center.

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  • Investigations

New deputy FBI director Dan Bongino previously called for imprisoning Democrats

Before becoming the second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino used his popular podcast to spread conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack. Here's what else he said.

March 06, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Nick McMillan
An NPR investigation finds federal judges have enormous influence with few checks on their power.  Law clerks and other judicial employees are vulnerable to mistreatment and have few job protections.

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  • Investigations

In the federal court system, law clerks find little recourse for bullying and abuse

An NPR investigation finds federal judges have enormous influence with few checks on their power. Law clerks and other judicial employees are vulnerable to mistreatment and have few job protections.

March 01, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
More than 10 years later, the search for Malaysia Airlines flight M370 is still on.

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  • World

The search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 has resumed once again

After 11 years of the plane's untraceable disappearance, authorities have announced that the search is back on.

February 26, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
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