The truth can be hard to take. About police reaction to a mass shooting. About a 10-year-old getting an abortion. But it’s our job to report it.
Author: Nicole Carroll, USA TODAY
Covering mass shootings has become routine – and endless. But it doesn’t get easier.
Divide into teams. Victims. Shooter. Community. Gun. Investigation. Find the people. Tell their stories. The next time could be any time.
How our Cincinnati opinion editor and his wife ended up talking about alopecia with Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk conversation about alopecia includes Cincinnati’s Nichole Aldridge, who talks about the disease’s emotional toll.
‘You are going to survive this, too.’ Afghans evacuated to Ukraine are now refugees of two wars, six months apart.
USA TODAY helped 17 Afghans evacuate to Kyiv after Kabul fell. Now all 17 were on the run again.
The Backstory: 17 news orgs teamed up to examine the Facebook Papers. We found struggles with sex trafficking, hate speech, misinformation.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s documents show the platform knew about problems but didn’t fully address them. How media outlets collaborated.
The Backstory: What our reporters saw, heard and experienced at the Florida condo collapse
“For me, the best thing that I can do is to report, is literally put their words and their pain on paper. The best thing that I can do is to do my job.”
The Backstory: Why newsrooms flourish when diverse voices speak out, create, lead
The “great importance” of diversity: “To see the things that we might not otherwise see and to have the perspective we might not otherwise have.”
The Backstory: Sunday’s Super Bowl will look, feel like no other because of COVID-19 restrictions
Experts say the players and staff will be pretty safe. They’re more worried about the rest of us.
The Backstory: COVID-19 could kill 100,000 more in U.S. in coming month. Will we face this as ‘one nation’?
Early numbers show the U.S. had 400,000 more deaths in 2020 than 2019. We’ve lost 400,000-plus to COVID-19 in one year. Those numbers are related.
The Backstory: Handcuffs, explosives and cries for help. Chilling details from inside the Capitol riot.
A rioter with zip tie handcuffs. Rioters beating police with poles of American flags. One officer, crushed, screaming for help. What we learned this week.