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Iowa’s largest school district chooses to hire superintendent who lied about a doctorate as he sits in jail after immigration detention

By Hannah Fingerhut, Ryan J. Foley, and others

FILE – Debris covers the area of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, Monday, July 7, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman, File)

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show

By Ryan J. Foley, Christopher L. Keller, and others

A Camp Mystic sign is seen near the entrance to the establishment along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, Saturday, July 5, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Texas approved Camp Mystic’s disaster plans just 2 days before deadly flooding killed more than 2 dozen people there

By Jim Mustian, Christopher L. Keller, and others

elon musk wearing doge shirt

Kansas City was once a hub for federal workers—but now it’s overrun with pain from DOGE cuts. ‘The poor will become even more poor now’

By Ryan J. Foley and The Associated Press

Workers enter the Bureau of Reclamation office Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone)

DOGE’s frenetic rush to cancel government leases will hit dozens of federal offices by June and hundreds more over coming months: ‘It’s like a blitzkrieg’

By Ryan J. Foley, Joshua Goodman, and others

This image provided by Travis Bond shows Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of the DOGE Service, pictured in 2014 at a health care technology conference in San Francisco, (Travis Bond via AP)

Once hailed by Obama as a ‘Champion of Change,’ DOGE’s chief may be wielding extraordinary power—or not—as role remains a mystery

By Ryan J. Foley, Brian Slodysko, and others

FILE – People protest during a rally outside the Treasury Department in Washington, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

DOGE has canceled over 1,100 federal contracts but nearly 40% of them aren’t expected to save the government any money

By Ryan J. Foley and The Associated Press

Police restrain a man on the sidewalk

Forced sedative injections are a hidden way many fatal police encounters end: ‘Why did they give him an animal tranquilizer?’

By Ryan J. Foley, Carla K. Johnson, and others

A truck of oil spill responders in Kansas.

The biggest oil spill in the history of the Keystone pipeline is dumping more than a half million gallons of crude into a creek in Kansas

By John Hanna, Heather Hollingsworth, and others