Stephen Engelberg
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Editor in Chief, ProPublica; Former NYT investigative chief, ME Oregonian,reporter covering CIA, immigration, germ weapons.Constantly seeking stories.
New York City
Joined September 2009
RT @charlesornstein: Check this story out: His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigran….
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Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to...
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RT @propublica: 118 of the Venezuelan immigrants were sent to El Salvador while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have….
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On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been...
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RT @MegsNewz: President Trump called the 230 Venezuelan migrants sent to an El Salvador prison “some of the most violent savages" on Earth.….
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On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been...
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RT @txtianmiller: Microsoft has hired engineers from China to maintain DOD computer systems with minimal supervision. Incredible story by @….
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The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack...
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RT @propublica: ProPublica has sued the FDA, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic dr….
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The agency declined to quickly release documents that would identify drugs made at some of the most troubled foreign factories. The request was part of ProPublica’s ongoing investigation into the...
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SCOOP: The FDA secretly allowed overseas factories with safety violations to sell popular generic drugs to Americans. The agency kept its decisions secret to avoid what one official feared would be a "frenzy" if the public knew the truth.
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A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
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RT @propublica: The Bukele government harassed and intimidated Salvadoran law enforcement officials who investigated corruption and assiste….
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President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a...
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Wondering why Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is so eager to help President Trump? It might have something to do with an ongoing US criminal investigation focused on secret dealings between Bukele's inner circle and MS-13 gang members.
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President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a...
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RT @charlesornstein: Another strong story told from Alaska: Newtok Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wr….
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The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.
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RT @charlesornstein: Absolutely stunning must-read story: Hurricane Helene’s Unheard Warnings @JenBerryHawes.
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As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few...
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RT @BrettMmurphy: It’s not just Gambia. We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on beh….
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The State Department has long tried to assure that US businesses are treated fairly overseas. What the Trump Administration is doing to help Elon Musk's Starlink win contracts is in another category.
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The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers...
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RT @propublica: New: Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after th….
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Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market...
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Our reporter David Armstrong @DavidArmstrongX wrote an amazing personal story about exorbitant drug prices. He has more to say on today's Fresh Air.
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ProPublica health care reporter David Armstrong has multiple myeloma. He says a single pill of his prescription costs the company just 25 cents to make — but costs him about the same as a new iPhone.
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RT @charlesornstein: NEW: Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Pregnant Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis. https://t.co/….
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Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their...
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RT @jackfleonard: Exclusive: Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show. By @propublica's….
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A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s...
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RT @propublica: Matthew Allison’s activity on Terrorgram was notorious. Extremism researchers studied his posts but did not know who he wa….
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To friends, Matthew Allison was a likeable part of Boise, Idaho’s electronic music scene. But behind his computer screen, authorities say, he helped lead the Terrorgram Collective, an online network...
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RT @propublica: New: Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.” The….
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Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.” The Minnesota attorney general’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the...
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RT @chrishendel: What to Do About the Looming End of U.S. Public Broadcasting. by @dicktofel . Thinking about the once unthinkable. https:/….
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