Dan Petty

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. propublica.org/article/ken-pa…

.@propublica has published a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. With @TexasTribune and a team of Venezuelan journalists, we've spent the past 4 months reporting on the men’s lives and backgrounds propub.li/3IJaIdg

We previously found the Trump admin. knew the majority of the 230+ Venezuelan deportees had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our new analysis reveals another jarring reality: that most of the men were already moving through the US immigration system. propublica.org/article/venezu…

After a @propublica investigation revealed how Microsoft’s “digital escort” tech support service could expose sensitive government data to cyberattacks, the company says China-based engineers will no longer provide assistance on DOD cloud services. propub.li/3UmfwI2

Today we published our 2nd story investigating the backgrounds of 230+ Venezuelan men Trump deported to Salvadoran. We did a first ever case-by-case analysis and found half were in the middle of their immigration cases, including dozens seeking asylum propublica.org/article/venezu…

Details on Ruth Chepngetich’s positive test: - HCTZ is classified under “diuretics and masking agents” - It is banned at all times - The minimum reporting level is 20 ng/ml. Her concentration was 3800 ng/ml, or 190 times more than the allowed limit runnersworld.com/news/a65438042…

RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market Decades Ago. They Could Flee Again. propub.li/3TLCkRu

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AccuWeather’s chief meteorologist was dismayed to hear that children attending youth camps in Kerr County, Texas, had not been ushered to higher ground despite warnings of potential life-threatening flash flooding. propublica.org/article/texas-…

While reporting this story about Hurricane Helene in NC, I was struck by how many people were asleep near creeks and rivers largely unaware of the coming danger. They were left to swim from homes. Or worse. 100+ died Texas sounds so tragically similar. propublica.org/article/hurric…

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. propublica.org/article/kristi…

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