A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding

by Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom, and Yilun Cheng, Houston Chronicle ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Newsroom, the Houston Chronicle and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to reportContinue Reading

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Four More Palestinians Starve to Death as Israeli Tanks Advance on Gaza City, U.N. Security Council Members, Except for U.S., Condemn “Man-Made Crisis” in Gaza, Jewish Peace Activists Demand California Senators End Support for Israel’s Assault on Gaza, Russian Drones and Missiles Kill 15 in Kyiv as Kremlin Rebuffs TheContinue Reading

Argentina’s opposition party votes to reopen investigation into President Milei over LIBRA scandal

Argentina’s opposition parties have revived a stalled investigation into President Javier Milei’s role in the LIBRA scandal, seizing on new corruption allegations that have rattled the government just weeks before October’s elections. The commission, first created in April but largely paralyzed by bureaucratic and congressional hurdles…Continue Reading