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News Articles: Investigations

Peter Saathoff-Harshfield and Aubrie Lee hold hands while in their accessible room on the California Zephyr Amtrak train.

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  • Investigations

Disabled passengers say they love riding trains. Will Amtrak love them back?

For years, disabled passengers have complained about Amtrak and its poor service — that it's too hard for them to ride the train. A new federal report looks at its efforts to get better.

July 18, 2025
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro
Congress has come to the rescue for vets and troops at risk of losing their homes after the Trump administration abruptly withdrew a VA safety net for homeowners.

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  • Investigations

Thousands of veterans get help from Congress to save their homes from foreclosure

A bipartisan Congress has come to the rescue of vets at risk of losing their homes, after administrations from both parties tore up VA safety nets for homeowners.

July 17, 2025
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
A screenshot from a video of officers at the U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., holding an incarcerated person in a four-point restraint.

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  • Investigations

Shackled for weeks: Federal report finds abuse of restraints in prisons

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro
A search and rescue team looks for people along the Guadalupe River near a damaged building at Camp Mystic. Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from government flood maps that showed they were in an area at high risk of dangerous flooding.

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  • Investigations

Camp Mystic asked to remove buildings from government flood maps despite risk

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many Americans have a flood risk they are not aware of.

July 13, 2025
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By:
  • Laura Sullivan

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  • Investigations

New data reveals FEMA missed major flood risks at Camp Mystic

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, revealing more than twice as many Americans live in flood prone areas than FEMA's maps show.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Laura Sullivan
Andrew Roth (left) stands up from his wheelchair to give Jack Moran a hug at the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Roth was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, which Moran helped liberate while serving in the U.S. Army.<br><br><br><br>

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  • World

80 years later, a Holocaust survivor meets an American soldier who helped free him

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Alexis Ratcliff, 19, (right) moved into her own apartment this week after living in a North Carolina hospital since she was 13. She was a baby when a car accident left her with significant disabilities.

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  • Health Care

The disabled teen stuck in a hospital for six years finally gets her own home

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

July 02, 2025
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By:
  • Joseph Shapiro

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  • Investigations

Are you a military veteran who has been charged money to apply for VA benefits?

If you're a veteran who has been charged a fee to get help on your application for a VA disability rating or other benefits, NPR wants to hear from you!

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
U.S. service members set up tents to house migrants in February 2025, at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Several hundred tents were erected; so far none have been used.

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  • Investigations

Trump said he'd send 30,000 migrants to Guantánamo. He's sent about 500

Trump vowed in January to send up to 30,000 migrants to Guantánamo, but so far about 500 have been flown to and from there. Critics say his goal appears to be frightening migrants into self-deporting.

June 25, 2025
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Navy veteran Matthew Kelly's home in San Antonio, Texas. Kelly was left stranded when the VA abruptly ended a mortgage program that's been helping save thousands of vets homes.

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  • Investigations

Trump's VA cut a program that's saving vets' homes. Republicans have questions

NPR has heard from more than 50 veterans around the country who are upset about the VA cutting a program that was helping vets avoid foreclosure. Veterans now have worse options than most Americans.

June 20, 2025
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By:
  • Chris Arnold and
  • Quil Lawrence
The Department of Health and Human Services notified 400 laid off CDC workers on Wednesday that their reduction in force had been "revoked."

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  • Investigations

More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Z fled Afghanistan to escape the Taliban, and was allowed to enter and stay in the U.S. in part because of Temporary Protected Status. The Trump administration is ending the program in July.

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  • Investigations

Despite ongoing Taliban threats, the U.S. is ending some protections for Afghans

Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. fear deportation as the administration revokes some protections, despite Taliban threats and ongoing instability in Afghanistan. Many fear for their lives if forced to return.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Monika Evstatieva
Federal judges have stood as checks on President Trump's power — but law clerks say behind closed doors, some created toxic, fear-driven workplaces where speaking out could end a career.

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  • Investigations

Federal judges are powerful. Some of their law clerks describe a toxic work culture

Federal judges have stood as checks on Trump's power — but law clerks say behind closed doors, some created toxic, fear-driven workplaces where speaking out could end a career.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
A truck is stuck in water and mud following flooding from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina.

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  • Investigations

Recovery Failure: Why we struggle to rebuild for the next storm

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't. 

June 08, 2025
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By:
  • Laura Sullivan
Juvenile detention systems often deny young offenders credit for the time they spend waiting behind bars. This adds months to the duration that kids are confined away from their families.

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  • Investigations

Young offenders are often denied credit for 'dead time' behind bars

Juvenile detention systems often deny young offenders credit for the time they spend waiting behind bars

June 06, 2025
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  • Caitlin Thompson
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