ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tried to plug a crucial hole in its preparations for a global pandemic, signing a $13.8 million contract with […]
This image provided by the U.S. District Court in Maryland shows a photo of firearms and ammunition that was in the motion for detention pending trial in the case against Christopher Paul Hasson, whom prosecutors call a “domestic terrorist.” A U.S. Coast Guard officer who federal prosecutors allege stockpiled weapons to launch a spree of […]
With the transport of the first container of mustard gas into an airtight containment building, the destruction of the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the U.S. had begun on Wednesday. The crews in the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado plan on opening and beginning the neutralizing process later today. The destruction process is slated […]