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| Aug 19, 2026 | Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt For Noncitizen Voters | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington.
The fe... |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records show | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousan... |
| Jan 14, 2026 | Trump DOJ Targets Fed, Escalating Political Interference and Market Fears | The Justice Department has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve. It threatens criminal indictment against Chair Jerome Powell. This unprecedented move targets Powell's testimony on a building renovation. Critics see it as a pretext. It aims to un... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | Trump’s list of targeted opponents grows longer with action against Powell and the Federal Reserve | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BILL BARROW
ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump promised in his second inaugural address to fairly apply the law, unlike how he said he’d been treated by federal authorities. Related Articles
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| Dec 16, 2025 | Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health sued the Trump administration Tuesday, saying she was illegally fired for wa... |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Trump special counsel nominee Paul Ingrassia withdraws after racist texts flap | Paul Ingrassia withdrew his name for consideration by the Senate to lead the Office of the Special Counsel after acknowledging he did not have votes of enough senators to be confirmed.
President Donald Trump had nominated Ingrassia to that ... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Kristi Noem’s shutdown airport video may violate Hatch Act, Sen. Cantwell warns | Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat, asked the Office of the Special Counsel to investigate Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for “likely” violations of the Hatch Act.
Cantwell cited the video Noem made that blame... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia reportedly accused of sexual harassment | Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, was accused of sexual harassment, according to a Politico report.
In a letter to CNBC, an attorney for Ingrassia said the nominee “did not engage i... |
| Oct 2, 2025 | HUD’s Scott Turner defends website text amid Hatch Act complaint | The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) drew scrutiny on Tuesday after its official government website displayed a banner and pop-up message blaming the “radical left” for a government shutdown.
“The Radical Left are goin... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push | The Republican president signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of the Education Department, and his administration has started overhauling much of its work, including cutting dozens of contracts it dismissed as “woke” and wa... |
| Mar 7, 2025 | DOGE layoffs may ‘overwhelm’ unemployment system for federal workers, report finds | The Trump administration — with the help of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, which the president says is headed by Elon Musk — has fired tens of thousands of federal workers.
The scale of cuts will likely fl... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Government ethics watchdog fired by Trump drops lawsuit challenging dismissal | A top federal government ethics watchdog who was fired last month by President Donald Trump said he is dropping a lawsuit challenging his dismissal.
The announcement by Office of Special Counsel chief Hampton Dellinger came a day after a fe... |
| Mar 5, 2025 | Appeals court allows Trump administration to remove ethics watchdog Dellinger — for now | A federal appeals court allowed the Trump administration to remove a top federal ethics watchdog from his office.
The order permitting removal of Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel came days after a federal judge rul... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | The Unraveling of Integrity: Trump’s New Era of Governance | In the political theater of the United States, the stage is set for a dramatic act. The curtain rises on a familiar face: Donald Trump. With his return to power, the landscape of governance is shifting. Integrity, once a cornerstone of publ... |
| Feb 11, 2025 | US whistleblower office chief temporarily reinstated after alleging improper firing | WASHINGTON: A US judge temporarily reinstated the head of a US watchdog agency focused on protecting government whistleblowers after the official filed a lawsuit on Monday (Feb 10) claiming his removal by President Donald Trump' administrat... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | National Politics | With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moving to dismantle government’s public integrity guardrails | Zelizer added: “It’s a much bolder assertion than in his first term, and if successful and if all these figures are removed, you’ll have a combination of an executive branch lacking independent voices that will keep their eye on the ball an... |
| Feb 10, 2025 | National Politics | Fired head of the agency that protects whistleblowers sues Trump, saying he was ousted illegally | Stephen Kohn, chairman of the board of National Whistleblower Center, called Dellinger’s firing “irresponsible and dangerous.”
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| Jul 20, 2022 | Dissecting the Justice Department’s Prosecutorial Decisions on Navarro, Meadows, and Scavino | On June 3, the Department of Justice revealed an indictment charging former Trump adviser Peter Navarro with contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the Cap... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | 13 Trump administration officials violated the Hatch Act, according to a federal investigation led by a Trump appointee | Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the virtual convention in a pre-recorded video from Jerusalem, Israel, on August 25, 2020. Photo Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty Im... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Trump advisers illegally campaigned while in office, U.S. government report finds | November 9, 20217:31 PM UTCLast Updated ago
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| May 26, 2021 | The ICE man cometh | Retired supervisory special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations Victor Avila speaks during the Ector County Republican Women meeting Wednesday at the Odessa Marriott Hotel & Conference C... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | 'Bank of BARDA': Investigation finds HHS raided pandemic preparedness funds for decade before Covid-19 | Before 2020, few Americans had ever heard of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, BARDA, or its far-flung mission to stave off future pandemics and bio-threats. Allegedly, that made it a pretty goo... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Millions of dollars meant to prepare for public health threats went to things like office furniture removal, watchdog says | Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing to discuss protecting scientific integrity in response to the coronaviru... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | HHS misused millions in health emergency funds over years, watchdog says | HHS officials inappropriately spent millions in federal funds that were intended for vaccine research and emergency preparedness, according to a federal watchdog.
The investigation details a sweeping misuse of funds that spans both the Trum... |
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| Aug 21, 2020 | Cattle Producers Recoup a Half-Million Dollars for Crop Losses after being Improperly Denied by USDA | The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has sent letters to the President and Congress outlining how a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) whistleblower worked with OSC to ensure 37 cattle producers in New Mexico were compensated more t... |
| Aug 23, 2019 | The Little-Noticed Way the McGahn Litigation Could Shape Congressional Oversight | On Aug. 7, the House Judiciary Committee filed a lawsuit asking a federal court in D.C. to force Don McGahn, former White House counsel, to comply with the committee’s subpoena for his testimony. The suit is ostensibly about the executive b... |
| Former Trump HUD official barred from government job for 4 years over Hatch Act violation | Lynne Patton, who oversaw HUD’s activities in New York and New Jersey, agreed to accept a 48-month ban from federal employment and pay a $1,000 civil fine for violating the Hatch Act.
Patton admitted violating the Hatch Act when she helped ... |
| ATF broke the law by paying agents millions in wrongful benefits, watchdog tells Biden | The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for years illegally overpaid up to $20 million to agents and investigators who filled non-law enforcement positions by misclassifying them as law enforcement posts.
The U.S. Office of ... |
| New documents show what will happen if the federal government shuts down and popular services are frozen in the middle of a pandemic | Trash piles up near the Washington Monument due to a partial federal government shutdown in December 2018. Win McNamee/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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