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American Sign Language-interpreted videos for the podcast series “Breakdown: Turning Anguish Into Action,” which examined the deadly 2023 mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, and the aftermath.
Portland Press Herald & Maine Public
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South Korean Truth Commission Halts Probe Into Adoption Fraud, Hundreds of Cases in Limbo
The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission has suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and abuse that tainted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program.
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‘A Place to Escape To’: Why Some Alaska Native Villages Are Facing Relocation
Parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than most of the rest of the world, researchers have found. This video drawn from “Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages” explores what the reality of climate change means for the coastal community of Hooper Bay.
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White Supremacist Terrorgram Network Allegedly Inspired Teen Accused of Killing Parents and Plotting Trump Assassination
Court documents reveal that Nikita Casap’s alleged manifesto calling for Trump’s assassination cited multiple Terrorgram publications and urged people to read the writings of a network member who murdered two people outside an LGTBQ+ bar in 2022.
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Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages
A look inside Alaska Native villages fighting for survival against climate change.
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South Korea’s Truth Commission Says Government Responsible for Fraud and Abuse in Foreign Adoptions
South Korea’s truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins.
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Tracing Violent White Supremacists and Online Radicalization from Charlottesville to Today
In connection with the release of "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram," explore a selection of FRONTLINE and ProPublica’s past documentaries and podcast episodes tracing the evolution of violent white supremacists and online radicalization, from Charlottesville to today.
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‘I Heard This Roaring Sound’: Woman Describes Surviving Attack Inspired by Terrorgram Collective
Two of Radka Trokšiarová’s friends were killed in a shooting outside an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2022. The attacker was inspired by the Terrorgram Collective: a transnational online network that promoted acts of white supremacist violence and is the subject of a new FRONTLINE/ProPublica documentary.
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A “Goofy” DJ’s Secret Life at the Center of an Online Terrorism Network
To friends, Matthew Allison was a likable part of Boise, Idaho’s electronic music scene. But behind his computer screen, authorities say, he helped lead the Terrorgram Collective, an online network that inspired white supremacist violence.
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