Super-Potent Synthetic Opioids Spread Across US Amid Fentanyl Crackdown
This article was co-published with Signal Ohio and STAT. In high school, Ashley Delgado dreamed of becoming a doctor and one day buying her father a Rolls-Royce. “She…
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Webinar 6/24: Negotiating FOIA fees
Please join us Wednesday, June 24, at noon Eastern for a free webinar with tips and resources on how to negotiate FOIA fees. Click here to register for this webinar…
Lessons from Local News
From the UK to India and the Brazilian Amazon, we spoke with journalists who are making it work. The post Lessons from Local News appeared first on Lighthouse Reports.
The Ideal Woman: How autocrats built the archetype.
Women in autocracies often seem like the regime’s showcase figures. Whether it is patriotic breast implants or pastel dresses as a sign of evangelical modesty, their…
Heading Off: New Technique Helps Track Grain Smuggling Expansion to Libya
On February 15, 2026, the bulk carrier, Grumant (IMO: 9385879) was pictured at the occupied Ukrainian Port of Feodosia on the Crimean peninsula. Satellite imagery…
Discover How Drought is Affecting your Region
An analysis by CORRECTIV.Europe reveals for the first time how widespread drought has become across Europe. Two-thirds of all regions have recorded severe drought years…
Tracing Digital Links Between Viory and Ruptly
“In the age of misinformation, the line between fact and fiction is blurrier than ever.” “For those of us working in video news, verification isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s…
The ‘Lost’ Villages of Myanmar’s Rakhine
A “river of blood” was how one survivor described the scene in western Myanmar. “I saw shooting. I saw mass killing.” Another told the UN High Commissioner for Human…
Banned Russian Submunitions Found After Mali’s Military Announces Airstrikes
This investigation is a collaboration between Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique. You can read Jeune Afrique’s article in French here. Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition…
911, Please Hold
The 911 system functions as a sort of promise: Call for help, and someone will be there to respond quickly. But in many American cities, it’s a broken promise. Thanks in…
Nowhere to Exist: Queer and Trans Afghans on The Move
An Escape is meant to bring people from danger to safety. For queer and trans Afghans, however, it does not. Instead, it leads them from Taliban rule to familial…
The Backstory: Max Rivlin-Nadler
Paco Alvarez: How did the idea for Courts of Contempt come about? Max Rivlin-Nadler: So since we launched Hell Gate around just over four years ago, this had been…