Mike Hixenbaugh
Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, based in Maryland.
Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, based in Maryland.
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Prayer, Bible lessons and a big red bus: How an Ohio group is bringing God to public school
LifeWise Academy's Bible lessons are permitted under a pair of decades-old U.S. Supreme Court rulings that allow off-campus religious instruction during school hours.
Military kept hundreds of organs after performing autopsies, watchdog says
The Department of Defense's medial examiner retained hundreds of organs removed during autopsies without notifying family members, a report shows.
Alabama justice who ruled embryos are people says American law should be rooted in the Bible
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker expressed his support for the Seven Mountains Mandate, a once-fringe philosophy that calls on evangelical Christians to reshape American life based on their beliefs.
More outraged families say loved ones were wrongly buried in a Mississippi pauper’s field
Since NBC News started documenting botched death notifications in Hinds County, Mississippi, the families of seven men have said they were not told of their loved ones' burials.
A Mississippi mother lays her son to rest more than a year after his burial in a pauper’s grave
Jonathan David Hankins' family spent more than a year and a half searching for him, unaware that he'd been found dead and buried in a Mississippi pauper's grave
Mississippi coroner who buried men without telling their families: ‘I don’t know how to find people’
The Hinds County, Mississippi, coroner told Jonathan David Hankins' mother that she had to leave the pauper’s field where her son’s body was being exhumed Friday.
How America’s patchwork death notification system leaves families in the dark
A free government database, NamUs, could help connect coroners and medical examiners with the family members of the dead. But the vast majority don’t use it.
A mother searched for her son for months — until NBC News discovered he’d been buried in a pauper’s field
Jonathan David Hankins went missing in May 2022. After months of calling officials, his mother learned through NBC News that he’d been buried in a pauper’s grave in Hinds County, Mississippi.
Dexter Wade, buried alone in Mississippi, finally gets the funeral he was denied
Dexter Wade was run over by a police officer in Jackson, Mississippi, and buried in a pauper's grave. On Monday, he finally got the funeral he was denied.
Meet the evangelical activist who’s had a 'profound influence' on Speaker Mike Johnson
David Barton has spent decades working to overturn church-state separation. He celebrated Speaker Mike Johnson's election as a turning point for evangelicals.
The Texas GOP is at war with itself. The outcome could signal the national party’s future.
After a meeting between a white supremacist and influential conservative operatives, a long-simmering fight within the Texas GOP has exploded into open warfare.
