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May 6, 2020

Episode 2: Parchman

How do you self-isolate when your home is a single room that you share with 107 men? That's what inmates at Mississippi's infamous Parchman prison have been wondering for six weeks. They've watched the number of coronavirus cases tick up in the counties around them, and with it, their fear.

May 4, 2020

How the EPA has left Americans exposed to lead in drinking water

Millions of people still get water through lead pipes. For decades, lax EPA rules missed hazardous lead levels and allowed some utilities to remain indifferent. Today the Trump administration is rushing to finalize a plan that might make things worse.

April 30, 2020

Episode 1: Greenville

In early April, a storm hit Greenville, Mississippi. It started when two pastors and the mayor clashed over how to do church during a pandemic. Then Fox News got involved. This is the first episode of a six-part special report on coronavirus in the Mississippi Delta.

April 30, 2020

Is learning to read a constitutional right?

A federal court recently ruled that underfunded schools in Detroit violated students' right to a basic education. Advocates hope the case is the beginning of a trend.

April 27, 2020

Public health labs suffered budget cuts prior to coronavirus

An APM Reports analysis finds that public labs in at least 10 states -- the first line of defense in an outbreak -- endured budget troubles or staffing shortages in the past decade. The labs will be critical to conducting the increased testing needed to end social distancing.

April 23, 2020

A Covid-infected attendee emerges from CES, a massive tech conference in January

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas becomes an intriguing puzzle piece of the pandemic's spread after new Bay Area Covid-19 deaths indicate the virus' presence in the United States earlier than thought.

March 17, 2020

Vermont police shooting was preventable, report finds

A state commission spent two years investigating the 2016 death of Phil Grenon, who was killed by officers after a Taser failed to subdue him.

January 6, 2020

Mississippi prosecutor Doug Evans takes himself off the Curtis Flowers case

The district attorney who's tried Flowers six times for the same crime will no longer handle the prosecution.

December 22, 2019

What Loper's about-face means for the Curtis Flowers case

The Mississippi judge has the power to prevent a seventh trial.

December 22, 2019

The day in photos: Curtis Flowers' release

Scenes from the extraordinary day the Mississippi man was freed on bail.

December 16, 2019

Curtis Flowers released on bail

A Mississippi judge allows Flowers to leave jail to await a possible seventh trial.

November 18, 2019

Doug Evans sued for using race in jury selection

The NAACP and four black plaintiffs take Mississippi prosecutor Doug Evans to court to halt the "odious practice" of "racially discriminatory jury selection."

November 15, 2019

Voting rights advocates call on Georgia to halt controversial purges

Following an APM Reports investigation, the League of Women Voters wants the state to eliminate its "use it or lose it" policy.

November 8, 2019

Georgia nearly purged hundreds of eligible voters by mistake

APM Reports identified 294 people wrongly included on a list of voters on track to have their registrations canceled.

November 7, 2019

Soldiers for Peace

During the Vietnam War, roughly one in five GIs actively opposed the conflict. Many servicemen and women came to believe they were not liberating the country from communism but acting as agents of tyranny. In the combat zone, they rebelled against their commanders' orders. At home, they staged massive protests. Soldiers for Peace offers a first-person look at how GIs were transformed by Vietnam, and the strategies veterans and active-duty personnel used to bring the war to an end.

November 1, 2019

The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country

In the 1950s, the United States came up with a plan to solve what it called the "Indian Problem." It would assimilate Native Americans by moving them to cities and eliminating reservations. The 20-year campaign failed to erase Native Americans, but its effects on Indian Country are still felt today.

November 1, 2019

Taser maker settles lawsuit with cop who claimed the weapon was underpowered

It's a small amount of money for a former Houston officer, though a rare settlement for Axon, which faces a similar claim in New Orleans.

October 29, 2019

How a massive voter purge in Georgia affected the 2018 election

State officials claimed that people removed from the voter rolls for inactivity had likely died or moved away. But an APM Reports investigation found tens of thousands who hadn't — and still wanted to vote.

October 28, 2019

A Georgia law prevented 87,000 people from voting last year. And it could have a big impact in 2020

Voter registration deadlines have long been a part of American elections, but an APM Reports investigation finds that they disenfranchised a surprising number of voters in 2018.

October 15, 2019

Alzheimer's research: The setup and setbacks

A select timeline of research, discovery, salesmanship and spending. Said Zaven Khachaturian, a former director of Alzheimer's research at the National Institute on Aging: 'Every major pharmaceutical company put money into the amyloid idea, and they all failed because the idea was flawed ... It became gradually an infallible belief system ... that's not very healthy for science when scientists ... accept an idea as infallible. That's when you run into problems.'

Noted North Carolina attorney to join Curtis Flowers' defense team

October 3, 2019