Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers. The system is meant to help growing families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks oversight, a ProPublica and CBS News investigation found.
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In today’s newsletter: How Texas funnels millions to anti-abortion groups with little oversight, other stories from Post-Roe America, the whistleblower who says Microsoft refused to fix a security flaw and more from our newsroom.

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Texas Sends Millions to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No One Knows if It Works.

Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers. The system is meant to help growing families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks oversight, a ProPublica and CBS News investigation found.

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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of federal protection for abortion, some states began enforcing strict abortion bans while others became new havens for the procedure. ProPublica is investigating how sweeping changes to reproductive health care access in America are affecting people, institutions and governments.

  • Their states banned abortion. Doctors now say they can’t give women potentially lifesaving care.
  • Severe complications for pregnant veterans nearly doubled in the last decade, a GAO report finds.
  • The year after a denied abortion
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For years, an engineer at Microsoft flagged a flaw in a product that people use to log in to their devices with single sign-on. The company dismissed his warnings. One product leader told him that acknowledging the weakness could interfere with Microsoft’s business goals.

Russian hackers later took advantage of that flaw in one of the biggest cyberattacks in U.S. history, SolarWinds. They used it to compromise the National Institutes of Health, the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of the Treasury.

In June, Microsoft President Brad Smith testified at a congressional hearing and was grilled about what government investigators called the company’s “cascade of security failures” in another hack. 

ProPublica’s Renee Dudley breaks down  what happened to whistleblower Andrew Harris and what Microsoft is saying it is doing to mitigate future attacks.

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