2025
Photography by Zach Gross: Taking on Goliath: Brain surgeon's clash with UnitedHealthcare shows insurer's hardball tactics
Photography by Dan Brouillette: How a city in Nebraska is recovering after the state's largest worksite immigration raid
Photography by Ariana Drehsler: A jet crashed into their neighborhood. Now they live in dread below an active flight path
Photography by James Henry: UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts
Photography by James Stukenberg: As autism ignites a national conversation, Temple Grandin has something to say
Photography by Arin Yoon: Delayed ultrasounds, disrupted care: Pregnant women are hit with military insurance snafus
Photography by Zack Wittman: Parents of kids with cancer fear GOP budget cuts could slash Medicaid
Photography by Kathleen Flynn: Gulf Coast shrimpers say bring on Trump's tariffs: 'This industry is dying'
2024
Photography by Kate Warren: Squeezed by high prices, a growing number of Americans find shelter in long-term motels
Photography by Michael Swensen and Jeenah Moon: 'Would he have lived?' When insurance companies deny cancer care to patients
Photography by Shuran Huang and John Taggart: Reactions to a divided election
Photography by Ricardo Nagaoka: Japanese Americans play historic baseball games at prison camp to recall a pastime — and a lifeline
Photography by Daniel Rolider: One year after Hamas attacks, hostage families are living life in limbo but trying to find hope
Photography by Justin Merriman: Five Jewish college students report being assaulted in the last month, as Oct. 7 anniversary approaches
Photography by Jana Williams: Sarah McBride’s historic run for Congress was decades in the making
Photography by Mike Belleme: 'Making peoples' lives hell': When he couldn't pay for cancer treatment, the hospital sued
Photography by Mike Belleme: North Carolina hospital company forgives debts of 11,500 people after NBC News report
Photography by Jackie Dives: She dreamed of a natural birth in Mexico. Now, she believes she was drugged
Photography by Nina Robinson and Sarah Wilmer: Death threats, legal risk and backlogs weigh on clinicians treating trans minors
Photography by Natalie Behring: Indigenous tribes welcome rare white buffalo calf in Yellowstone ceremony
Photography by Rafael Yaghobzadeh: D-Day's last living links recount brutal, and inspiring, memories on Normandy’s beaches
Photography by Mark Abramson: A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They're there for the same conference
Photography by Lucia Buricelli: Photos from Trump's rally in the South Bronx
Photography by Micah McCoy: Did TikTok videos inspire a teen’s suicide? His mom says she found graphic evidence
Photography by Sebastian Hidalgo: Chicago to begin evicting migrants from shelters Sunday
2023
Photography by Imani Khayyam: 'Why did I get shot?': A mother seeks accountability after a police stop erupts in gunfire
Photography by Marie Hobro: Maui wildfires lead to dire mental health crisis in Lahaina
Photography by Shuran Huang: A heated battle in Virginia’s largest school district tests the strength of ‘parent rights’ activism
Photography by Andrea Morales: Nursing pillows are associated with more than 160 infant deaths, NBC News investigation finds
Photography by Tamara Reynolds: Truckers flooded the market during Covid. Now they struggle to pay their bills
Photography by Alyssa Pointer: The new CDC director has a plan to fix the agency’s trust problem
Photography by Imani Khayyam: In an ‘extraordinary’ move, Mississippi AG tries to overturn officer’s manslaughter conviction
Photography by Shuran Huang: A Virginia doctor found liable for battery of a teen girl and accused of abusing another teen is still practicing medicine
Photography by Josiah Patterson: Air Force general who predicted war with China leads 'unprecedented' training exercise
Photography by Marissa Leshnov: California's earliest Black settlers bought land only for it to be stolen. Their descendants want it back
Photography by Matt Eich: Hounded by baseless voter fraud allegations, an entire county's election staff quits in Virginia
Photography by Sharon Chischilly: Navajo Nation’s long quest for water — and for the federal government to keep its promises — ends up at Supreme Court
Photography by Shuran Huang: Protesting against Congress may get you a $50 fine. Disrupting the Supreme Court is a different story
2022
Photography by Roshni Khatri: Two years after Covid vaccines rolled out, researchers are calling for newer, better options
Photography by Lynsey Witherspoon: They were diagnosed with uterine cancer and tumors. Now they're suing the makers of chemical hair straighteners
Photography by Dee Dwyer and Alex Mousan: Decades of stark divisions over affirmative action set for Supreme Court showdown
Photography by Andri Tambunan: California wildfire survivors struggle to rebuild as settlement money trickles in
Photography by Jared Wickerham: School lunch is too costly for a growing number of families. Will a White House pledge help?
Photography by James Stukenberg and Will Crooks: Teens were sent to Wyoming ranches for therapy. They say they found a nightmare of hard labor and humiliation
Photography by Michael Swensen: Records lost, hundreds of displaced students: Kentucky floods have thrown schools into crisis mode
Photography by Michael Swensen: Homeless and without water, Kentuckians face another daunting challenge: FEMA applications
Photography by Michael Swensen: One flood-ravaged Kentucky community is suing a coal company, saying its negligence made damage even worse
Photography by Arin Yoon: One state declined a simple tweak to its summer meals program. Thousands of kids paid the price
Photography by Alejan Rubio, Dan Koeck and Victor Llorente: The cost of green energy: The nation’s biggest lithium mine may be going up on a site sacred to Native Americans
Photography by Gabriella Angotti-Jones: The Forest Service is overstating its wildfire prevention progress to Congress despite decades of warnings not to
Photography by Pete Keihart: A mother's painful pursuit of justice: Inside a war crimes investigation in Ukraine
Photography by Michael Swensen: Fearing looters, Kentucky flood victims refuse to leave wrecked homes
Photography by Michael Swensen: Kentucky flood survivors say there was no time to escape the deluge
Photography by Sarah M. Vasquez: Voter fraud claims are heating up a battle for political control in an oil-rich Texas county
Photography by Montinique Monroe: Some Black abortion providers are considering leaving the field for fear of prosecution
Photography by Saul Martinez: A new attorney helped clear an innocent man of a murder sentence after 32 years in prison
Photography by Rosem Morton: Morticians describe the devastating toll assault-style weapons inflict on bodies
Photography by Eve Edelheit: A surgeon’s lawsuit highlights gender disparities and workplace discrimination in medicine
Photography by Imani Khayyam: 'It made me feel low': Black students urge passage of Crown Act to end hair discrimination
Photography by Cedric Angeles: Activist Gary Chambers is trying to become Louisiana’s first Black senator
Photography by Justin T. Gellerson and Lucy Hewett: Passover foods are rising in price because of inflation and supply chain issues
Photography by Gabby Jones: Mail is going missing at Boston University. One mother went searching for answers
Photography by Aboubacar Kante: 'We're very concerned': Black voters fear changes to Georgia voting laws
Photography by Brett Deering: Oklahoma’s medical marijuana growers look for the next boom market
Photography by Sara Stathas: 'A cruel joke': Families are missing the child tax credit. What future does it have?
2021
Photography by Evan Jenkins: Freedges, or 'free fridges,' continue to expand nationwide
Photography by Allison V. Smith: Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars
Photography by Alyson Aliano: Latinas in trucking are finding their place — in the driver's seats of 18-wheelers
Photography by Veronica Cardenas: Disgruntled neighbors and dwindling shorebirds jeopardize SpaceX expansion
Photography by Liz Sanders: Many classrooms won't require masks for children this year. It's a source of tension
Photography by Maddie McGarvey: Where do you go after 31 years in prison? He went to Walmart and brought his subscribers
Photography by Saul Martinez: Surfside downtown suffers after condo building collapse
Photography by Saul Martinez: Artists and Surfside residents work to honor and remember victims of building collapse
Photography by Gavin Liddell, Annie Flanagan and Rozette Rago: Bulldozed and bisected:Highway construction built a legacy of inequality
Photography by Hannah Beier: Residents push back at high sewage and water bills from private companies
Photography by Gabby Jones: New Jersey's 'Black Fairy Godmother' is distributing Covid relief one DM at a time
Photography by Rachel Mummey: They joined Black Lives Matter protests in Des Moines, Iowa. It changed their lives
Photography by Sara Naomi: Blind people, advocates slam company claiming to make websites ADA compliant
Photography by Maggie Shannon: 'If you build it, they will come': California desert cashes in on early cannabis investment
Photography by Adam Glanzman: Workers at ballparks and theme parks have mixed feelings about returning
Photography by Mike Swensen: Biden voters in Pennsylvania see promises kept on Covid. They're watching for what's next
Photography by Alex Ramadan: Starting a U.S. company, but not in the U.S.: Foreign entrepreneurs in a bind
Photography by Eddie Quinones: Grocery workers died feeding the nation. Now, their families are left to pick up the pieces
Photography by Brad Vest: Housing advocates say evictions are continuing at 'full steam,' despite a federal ban
Photography by Katie Falkenberg: 'They left us out to dry': Wildland firefighter says he was 'blacklisted' for speaking against lack of Covid safety
2020
Photography by Illana Panich-Linsman, Christopher Lee, Drew Anthony-Smith, Julia Robinson and Jaime Carrero: A day in the life of an ESL teacher
Photography by Andrew Morales: Coronavirus surge brings suffering to the impoverished, underresourced Mississippi Delta
Photography by Whitten Sabatini and Kyana Szymczak: The economy is showing signs of recovery. Many Black Americans are not
Photography by Roshni Khatri: How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical'
Photography by Sean Rayford: 'The black man's country club': To understand black voters, look to their barbershops
Photography by Angus Mordant: New York says goodbye to grim reminders of coronavirus toll
Photography by Annie Flanagan: A sheriff's deputy shot a 14-year-old boy. It went unreported for months
Photography by Ron Antonelli: For richer and poorer, Uncle Sam's coronavirus response widened the gulf
Photography by Joe Buglewicz: Arizona's 'downwinders,' exposed to Cold War nuclear testing, fight for compensation
Photography by Akasha Rabut: Football canceled for some in Mississippi, cutting off pathway out of poverty
Photography by Nina Westervelt: New Trump admin rules make it easier for lenders to charge small businesses super-high interest rates
Photography by Celeste Sloman: 'It's like New Year's every day' as lockdowns drive increase in booze and pot sales
Photography by Amy Lombard: Fast-and-loose culture of e-sports is upending once staid world of chess
Photography by Amy Lombard and Mike Swensen: The big picture: Election Day across America
Photography by Amy Lombard: Celebrations spread with news of Biden victory
2019
Photography by Mahya Rastegar: From the cockpit to the boxing ring, these women defy stereotypes in Iran
Photography by Roshni Khatri: 'Not the boys' club anymore': Eight women take a swing at the construction industry
Photography by Caitlin O'Hara: Guatemalan mom and American-born daughter reunited after 8 months apart
Photography by Alejandro Cossio: Trapped in Tijuana: Migrants face a long, dangerous wait to claim asylum
Photography by Cooper Neill: An 'expensive lottery ticket': Freezing eggs offers women hope, but not everyone wins
Photography by Justin Merriman: ‘Orphan well’ mishap stirs suspicion and frustration in tiny Pennsylvania town
Photography by Justin Merriman: Older people are embracing video games. For some, that means stardom
Photography by Nicole Crain: First the hurricane, then the thieves. A fire department on verge of collapse pleads for help
Photography by Evan Jenkins: A looming teacher strike in Chicago is about far more than just salaries
Photography by Ackerman + Gruber: What if you call 911 and no one comes?
Photography by Heather Sten: The abortion underground: Groups quietly help women who have to travel to access care
Photography by Cheryl Diaz-Meyer: Secret Chinese documents reveal inner workings of Muslim detention camps