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DHS officials shot and killed VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota this week. This is the second killing and third civilian shot in just the first few weeks of 2026 in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Two CBP agents identified in Alex Pretti shooting

J. David McSwane
Federal agents detain a man after exiting a court hearing in immigration court in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

How Trump is building a violent, shadowy federal police force

J. David McSwane, Hannah Allam
Donald Trump showing a signed executive order. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s purge made Black women with stable federal jobs an “easy target”

J. David McSwane
Chuck Grassley (Andrew Harnik - Pool/Getty Images)

How Obamacare enabled a multibillion-dollar Christian health care cash grab — with GOP help

J. David McSwane, Ryan Gabrielson
Medical Bill (Getty Images/everydayplus)

Christian health nonprofit that let people “opt out of Obamacare” saddled members with debt and ruin

Ryan Gabrielson, J. David McSwane
Members of the National Guard and the Washington D.C. police keep a small group of demonstrators away from the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol earlier, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Capitol rioters planned for weeks in plain sight. The police still weren’t ready for their siege

Logan Jaffe, Lydia DePillis, Isaac Arnsdorf, J. David McSwane
Doctors and nurses taking care of patients in ICU at hospital during COVID-19 (Getty Images)

A crush of patients, dwindling supplies and the nurse who lost hope

J. David McSwane
Nurses hold a meeting on one of five Covid-19 wards at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside where patients are taken to recover from the virus. (Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)

“Those of us who don’t die are going to quit”: Overwhelmed hospitals and the nurse who lost hope

J. David McSwane
White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, left, and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, both wearing face masks listen as President Donald J. Trump participates in a vaccine development event in the Rose Garden at the White House ( Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images))

A federal agency was suing him for fraud. The Trump admin still paid his company millions for masks

J. David McSwane
US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference on the COVID-19 outbreak at the White House on February 26, 2020. - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his administration's response to the novel coronavirus, lashing the media for spreading panic as he conducts an evening news conference on the epidemic. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump administration paid millions for test tubes. They got unusable mini soda bottles instead

J. David McSwane, Ryan Gabrielson
Still life of a face mask on red background (Getty Images)

The secret world of coronavirus mask traders and middlemen trying to get rich off government money

J. David McSwane
APRIL 10, 2020: No TSA Security lines at Pensacola International Airport. (Julie Picardi/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

The TSA hoarded 1.3 million N95 masks even though airports are empty and it doesn’t need them

J. David McSwane
Donald Trump, Mike Pence (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

How profit and incompetence delayed N95 masks while people died

J. David McSwane
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a meeting with Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Oval Office of the White House January 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Mitsotakis is expected to discuss various issues with President Trump, including Greece’s relations with Turkey. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

White House directed FEMA to grant $96 million no-bid coronavirus contract

Yeganeh Torbati, J. David McSwane
A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

U.S. hospitals say they’re ready for coronavirus. Their infection control violations say otherwise

Marshall Allen, Caroline Chen, J. David McSwane, Lexi Churchill
Rudy Giuliani (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Giuliani was close to a podcast deal with the news outlet that spread his Ukraine conspiracies

Mike Spies, Jake Pearson, J. David McSwane
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Pro-Trump super PAC at the center of Ukraine scandal has faced multiple campaign finance complaints

Mike Spies, Derek Willis, J. David McSwane