Author: Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY

The Independent Adoption Center’s abrupt closure affected families throughout the country. A USA TODAY investigation examined what went wrong.

Thousands of adoptees who came into the U.S. legally as children found out they aren’t citizens. They face uncertainty and, at worst, deportation.

The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is reportedly investigating if the Jehovah’s Witnesses failed to report child sexual abuse to authorities.