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| Aug 25, 2026 | The Trump administration says it’s investigating these Colorado institutions. Here’s what’s really happening. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, his administration has announced a flurry of investigations into Democratic-led states and their institutions.
Colorado has... |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Ameaka Released After Four Days: TSA-ICE Airport Immigration Arrests Ran on Hidden Contract | By Earl Bensen
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| Mar 20, 2026 | Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control | When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with something disarming: agreement.
“I want to... |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Judge blocks release of Trump documents case report by special counsel Jack Smith | A Florida federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump blocked the public release of a final report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his prosecution of Trump for retaining classified documents after leaving the White House at hi... |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Texas man was fatally shot by a federal immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JESSE BEDAYN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released records show a U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic ... |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Public health workers are quitting over assignments to Guantánamo | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the U.S. Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump adminis... |
| Dec 3, 2025 | 4 Republican states will help Homeland Security obtain driver’s license records | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jonathan Shorman, Stateline.org
Four Republican states have agreed to help the Trump administration gain access to state driver’s license data through a nationwide law enforcement computer netwo... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | She Pushed To Overturn Trump’s Loss In The 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department... |
| May 19, 2025 | The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president | How will experts and their fellow Americans understand what went on during Trump’s term when those charged with setting aside the artifacts documenting history refuse to do so? How to piece together a history of truth and accuracy?
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| May 5, 2025 | Messaging app used by Trump official suspends operations after reported hack | The messaging app seen being used by President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, Michael Waltz, is temporarily suspending services following a reported hack.
“Out of an abundance of caution, all TeleMessage services have been... |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Commentary: Trump administration cannot fully contain fallout of Signalgate | Listen
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SINGAPORE: Questions remain in the wake of “Signalgate”, in which The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to a group chat wi... |
| Mar 28, 2025 | The Signal Scandal: A Tangle of Secrets and Accountability | In the digital age, communication is a double-edged sword. The recent Signal scandal involving senior White House officials reveals the perils of using unsecured messaging apps for sensitive discussions. It’s a tale of missteps, denials, an... |
| Mar 28, 2025 | Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Yemen attack plan messages | WASHINGTON: A US judge on Thursday (Mar 27) ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app discussing attack plans against the Houthis in Yemen that became public after they were inadve... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | The Signal Scandal: A Glitch or a Glaring Breach? | In the world of national security, communication is a double-edged sword. The recent revelation that top Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss military operations has ignited a firestorm of controversy. Thi... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Judge says he will order government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike | American Oversight sued this week to ensure that the records are kept in accordance with the Federal Records Act. The group suspects that administration officials routinely use Signal to communicate.
“Defendants’ use of a non-classified com... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Lawsuit Filed Over The Bombing The Houthis Group Chat | If you’re going to plan military operations over Signal, you probably shouldn’t accidentally add a journalist to the chat. And if you’re going to do government business over Signal specifically to avoid federal record-keeping laws, you defi... |
| Oct 25, 2024 | National Politics | Army releases redacted police report on altercation during Trump’s Arlington cemetery visit | A lawsuit demanding the release of the police report was filed by Washington-based government transparency group American Oversight, and a federal judge ordered it be made public by Friday. The group posted the report on its website.
Trump,... |
| Feb 20, 2024 | ‘Sam didn’t snitch on anyone’: First image of Bankman-Fried behind bars surfaces | The first photograph of Sam Bankman-Fried—who committed “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,” according to U.S. Attorney Damian Williams—alongside fellow inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, has surfaced... |
| Jun 19, 2022 | Jan. 6 panel to implicate Trump in fake elector plot, Schiff says | The U.S. House panel investigating the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol will present evidence this week that former President Donald Trump was involved in a failed bit to submit slates of fake electors to overturn the 2020 election, ... |
| Jun 19, 2022 | Jan. 6 panel to implicate Trump in fake elector plot, Schiff says | June 19, 20223:26 PM UTCLast Updated ago
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Chairman U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Vice Chair U.S. Representative... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | Michigan GOP co-chair said Trump campaign encouraged efforts to give him state's electoral votes | Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock said at a recent event that former President Donald Trump's campaign encouraged the effort by Republicans in Michigan to submit a document saying Michigan's 16 Electoral College votes shoul... |
| Jun 9, 2021 | OAN correspondent who is covering the Arizona election audit has been aiding the effort since at least December, documents show | A reporter with One America News Network worked at a campaign rally with President Donald Trump on September 25, 2020, in Newport News, Virginia. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
OAN’s Christina Bobb has been covering the Arizona election audit an... |
| Jun 5, 2021 | GOP leader behind Arizona election audit touted Trump phone call in newly released emails | A contractor working for Cyber Ninjas, who was hired by the Arizona State Senate transports ballots from the 2020 general election at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 1, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images
New emails de... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | USPS Regrets Its Transparency, Asks FOIA Requester To Remove 1,200 Pages It Forgot To Withhold | The government has fucked up and it thinks citizens are obligated to help it unfuck itself. We're not. Too bad. |
| Sep 23, 2020 | USPS Regrets Its Transparency, Asks FOIA Requester To Remove 1,200 Pages It Forgot To Withhold | The government has fucked up and it thinks citizens are obligated to help it unfuck itself. We’re not. Too bad. |
| Sep 18, 2020 | USPS Covid-19 Coronavirus Plan To Send Every Household Face Masks: Why The White House Stopped It | Wide angle of logo for United States Postal Service (USPS) on mailbox in Lafayette, California, ... [+] September 3, 2020. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Gado via Getty Images |
| Jan 15, 2020 | Testimony and Executive Privilege in the Senate Impeachment Trial | With the House of Representatives set to pass the articles of impeachment to the Senate later today, Jan. 15, senators are still debating whether or not the president’s trial should involve hearing from witnesses. Minority Leader Chuck Schu... |
| Nov 23, 2019 | State Department Documents on Ukraine | In response to FOIA litigation from American Oversight, the State Department has released a tranche of records related to the Ukraine scandal. The documents are available here and below.
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| Sep 23, 2019 | Grand Jury Secrecy, Contempt and the McCabe Investigation | Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI who was uncharitably fired the day before his intended retirement, has been under criminal investigation for more than a year—some say at the inappropriate insistence of President Trump. ... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | AT&T Scores $1 Billion Contract To Rebuild DOJ Systems | AT&T is increasingly becoming one of those companies that’s so bone-grafted to the government, it’s getting harder to determine where the telecom giant ends and the government begins. Reports have already explored how AT&T is effect... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | AT&T Scores $1 Billion Contract To Rebuild DOJ Systems | AT&T is increasingly becoming one of those companies that's so bone-grafted to the government, it's getting harder to determine where the telecom giant ends and the government begins. Reports have already explored how AT&T is effect... |
| Mar 28, 2019 | Cohen Payment Kerfuffle Forces AT&T To Be Slightly More Transparent About Lobbying | Though it kind of flew under the radar given countless other scandals, you might recall how Trump fixer and former lawyer Michael Cohen was also busted selling access to the President. One of the companies involved in this particular aspect... |
| Nov 20, 2018 | Ivanka Trump used a personal email account for government business, but no we shouldn't 'lock her up' | While I am not a fan of Donald Trump, I am hardly an admirer of Hillary Clinton either -- I had serious concerns about her use of a personal email server. I mean, look, the former Secretary of State was sending and receiving classified emai... |
| Nov 20, 2018 | Ivanka Trump used her private email for government business but says it's totally not like Hillary | Ivanka Trump apparently didn’t realize it was a bad idea to use private emails for government business — despite her father thrashing the issue daily during his presidential fight with Hillary Clinton.
The senior White House adviser used a ... |
| Aug 6, 2018 | FCC admits it was never actually hacked | The FCC has come clean on the fact that a purported hack of its comment system last year never actually took place, after a report from its inspector general found a lack of evidence supporting the idea. Chairman Ajit Pai blamed the former ... |
| Jun 6, 2018 | FCC accused of “spreading lies” about DDoS hitting comment system | Enlarge / John Oliver takes on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in a May 2017 net neutrality segment.
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| Jun 5, 2018 | FCC has a redaction party with emails relating to mystery attack on comment system | You may remember the FCC explaining that in both 2014 and 2017, its comment system was briefly taken down by a denial of service attack. At least, so it says — but newly released emails show that the 2014 case was essentially fabricated, an... |
| Mar 6, 2018 | About that ‘Winter White House’ Post ... | A couple of weeks ago, The Hill reported on the latest legal endeavour of our little Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) project: a new lawsuit we’ve filed with help from our friends at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy a... |
| Sep 2, 2017 | DOJ Filing Says There Is No Evidence That President Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower | On March 4, President Donald Trump tweeted:
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
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| Jul 26, 2017 | Lawsuit seeks Ajit Pai’s net neutrality talks with Internet providers | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai testifying before a Senate subcommittee on May 11, 2016, when he was a commissioner.
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| Trump FBI pick Kash Patel accused of directing staff purge while still a nominee | Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., accused Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, of personally directing an alleged "ongoing purge" of civil servants at the agency.
Durbin urged Department of Justice Inspector Gener... |
| Jan. 6 texts of Trump Defense officials wiped clean by Pentagon, court filing shows | Text messages received and sent by top Pentagon officials who were part of the Trump administration on Jan. 6, 2021, have been wiped from their government-issued phones, according to a court filing that cites statements by the Defense Depar... |
