By Dafna Linzer, ProPublica

Yesterday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs made two claims about the administration's handling of detainees at Guantanamo Bay that overstated its progress in clearing the prison. According to Gibbs, the administration has transferred an unprecedented number of detainees from the prison and has promptly complied...

By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, New Orleans Times-Picayune

The following report was taken from Case Two of the Frontline, Times-Picayune and ProPublica investigative series "Law & Disorder: After Katrina, New Orleans Police Shot Frequently and Asked Few Questions."

Matt McDonald...

by Sharona Coutts and Paul Kiel, ProPublica

AIG is coming close to losing its crown as the biggest debtor in the bailout. The company announced today that it has completed two deals that, together, shaved $25 billion...

By Sheri Fink, ProPublica

On Monday, ordinary Americans get a rare opportunity to weigh in on a life-and-death issue: Who gets access to scarce, life-saving treatments during a disaster?

The public has been invited to participate in a teleconference (PDF) in which advisers to...

By Jennifer LaFleur and Michael Grabell, ProPublica

Stimulus critics were abuzz this week flogging the federal Web site Recovery.gov for flaws in its first big data release. Problems ranged from confusing variation and gaps in job numbers to mistakes that put projects in nonexistent...

By Sabrina Shankman and Olga Pierce, ProPublica

Using results from a questionnaire we did with American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, we’re looking at how the proposed health care reforms will actually affect people facing common health care coverage situations. This is the third...

By T. Christian Miller, ProPublica

Today we honor the veterans who have served in the country's armed forces. Nobody seriously questions whether they deserve such recognition. The men and women who defended this country and fought its wars made immeasurable sacrifices.

I have spent much of...

By Paul Kiel, ProPublica.

The administration’s $75 billion mortgage modification program is meant to help 3 million to 4 million homeowners avoid foreclosures. The latest data, out Tuesday, shows mortgage servicers are making some progress toward this goal, but big...

By Michael Grabell, Jennifer LaFleur, Amanda Michel and Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica.

When the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package passed in February, President Obama pledged that American taxpayers would be able to track every dime. Today, the government released its first comprehensive look
...

By Paul Kiel, ProPublica.

Since its March launch, the government's $50
billion program to prevent foreclosures has been marked by confusion, delays and doubts. A little-noticed conclusion in a government report released last week reveals that the program's auditor is no different: Freddie Mac --...

By Jake Bernstein, ProPublica.

The FDIC shuttered California's San Joaquin Bank on Friday, putting the total number of bank failures for the year at 99. (See ProPublica's failed bank list.) 

The pace of failures has slowed somewhat...

By Paul Steiger, ProPublica.

Cross posted at McKinsey & Company: What Matters

On Sunday, July 12, 2009, the Los Angeles Times published on its front page and on four full inside pages an article headed, Problem nurses stay on job as patients suffer.

Of the many extraordinary things...

By Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica.

Many Americans are not aware of what impact the economic stimulus package has had on their communities and their opinions of the stimulus differ by race and ethnic group, according to a new poll released today by

By Paul Kiel, ProPublica.

Last week, we (ProPublica) published a story examining the boom in "foreclosure rescue" companies, firms that promise — in exchange for a large up-front fee — to persuade lenders to modify desperate homeowners’ mortgages. The story was done in collaboration with American Public Media’s...

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica

Pennsylvania environment officials are racing to clean up as much as 8,000 gallons of dangerous drilling fluids after a series of spills at a natural gas production site near the town of Dimock late last week.

The spills, which occurred at a well site...

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica

The hubbub has subsided after President Obama's health care speech, but reform's treacherous route through Congress remains the same.

Obama called for reining in the insurance industry, creating a public option to help make insurance available to everyone, and requiring everyone to have coverage....

by Olga Pierce, ProPublica

Much of the coverage of the health care reform process has left consumers -- and many of us here at ProPublica -- struggling to understand just how the various proposals in play would affect them.

To begin to tackle that, we partnered with...

By Olga Pierce, ProPublica.

To curb the lobbying feeding frenzy surrounding the nearly $800 billion stimulus package, in March the Obama administration imposed unprecedented restrictions on lobbyists: All lobbyist communications regarding specific projects were to be submitted in writing, and general conversations between government officials and lobbyists...

By Chris Flavelle, ProPublica.

When President Obama introduced the stimulus plan, he made a bold promise of transparency: “Every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new Web site called Recovery.gov.” But like so many noble...

by Karen Weise, ProPublica

"Systemic abuse." "Extraordinary incompetence." "Reckless."  In a growing body of legal cases, judges and the Justice Department are breaking from legal jargon to starkly chastise mortgage companies. 

As mortgage delinquencies rise, more and more homeowners...