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The Trump Administration Used Its Food Aid Program for Political Gain, Congressional Investigators Find

The Food to Families program, touted by Ivanka Trump, gave tens of millions of dollars to unqualified firms and was also used to promote then-President Trump.

Coronavirus

Documents Show Trump Officials Skirted Rules to Reward Politically Connected and Untested Firms With Huge Pandemic Contracts

House Democrats investigating the COVID-19 response say Trump adviser Peter Navarro pressured agencies to award deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Coronavirus

CDC Shut Down a Lab Involved in Making Faulty Coronavirus Tests

A CDC lab involved in making faulty coronavirus tests sent to state and local officials early in the pandemic was closed down hours after an October investigation by ProPublica exposed key mistakes the CDC made in manufacturing those tests.

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395 stories published since 2016

The Trump Administration Used Its Food Aid Program for Political Gain, Congressional Investigators Find

New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic

Trump Spawned a New Group of Mega-Donors Who Now Hold Sway Over the GOP’s Future

Documents Show Trump Officials Skirted Rules to Reward Politically Connected and Untested Firms With Huge Pandemic Contracts

The Government Donald Trump Left Behind

What Should Go in the Trump Time Capsule?

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years

She Photographed Police Abuse at a 2014 BLM March Then Watched the Image Go Viral During Capitol Riot

Trump Administration Says the Inconvenience of Rescheduling Executions Outweighs the “Harm” to Prisoners Set to Die

“This Political Climate Got My Brother Killed”: Officer Brian Sicknick Died Defending the Capitol. His Family Waits for Answers.

CDC Shut Down a Lab Involved in Making Faulty Coronavirus Tests

Domestic Terrorism: A More Urgent Threat, but Weaker Laws

Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready.

Inside Trump and Barr’s Last-Minute Killing Spree

The Trump Administration Keeps Awarding Border Wall Contracts but Doesn’t Own the Land to Build On

The Trump Administration’s Final Push to Make It Easier for Religious Employers to Discriminate

JPMorgan Chase Bank Wrongly Charged 170,000 Customers Overdraft Fees. Federal Regulators Refused to Penalize It.

How Dozens of Trump’s Political Appointees Will Stay in Government After Biden Takes Over

Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20

Tracking the Trump Administration’s “Midnight Regulations”

The Long Odds Facing Trump’s Attempts to Get State Legislatures to Override Election Results

Rapid Testing Is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit

La campaña de Trump no logra encontrar un juez que ignore los hechos, pero no se da por vencida

The Trump Campaign Can’t Find a Judge Who Will Ignore Facts — but It’s Trying

Charting the Long-Term Impact of Trump’s Judicial Appointments

Trump Got What He Wanted at the Border. Would Biden Undo It?

Top FEC Official’s Undisclosed Ties to Trump Raise Concerns Over Agency Neutrality

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

DOJ Frees Federal Prosecutors to Take Steps That Could Interfere With Elections, Weakening Long-standing Policy

The Justice Department May Have Violated Attorney General Barr’s Own Policy Memo

The Trump Administration Is Backing Out of a $647 Million Ventilator Deal After ProPublica Investigated the Price

Now in Government Food Aid Boxes: A Letter From Donald Trump

Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of a Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People

What the Post Office Needs to Survive a Pandemic Election

After a Year of Investigation, the Border Patrol Has Little to Say About Agents’ Misogynistic and Racist Facebook Group

How Many People in the U.S. Are Hospitalized With COVID-19? Who Knows?

Bill Barr Has Done This Before

The Trump Campaign’s Legal Strategy Includes Suing a Tiny TV Station in Northern Wisconsin

Three Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Decisions on Trump’s Tax and Financial Documents

Trump Administration Discloses Some Recipients of $670 Billion Small Business Bailout

Why Do People Want to See Donald Trump’s Tax Returns?

Oyster, Air Fryer and Bicycle Companies Say Their Goods Are Essential to Fighting Coronavirus So They Can Get Tariff Relief

An Illustrated History of Government Agencies Twisting the Truth to Align With White House Misinformation

Inside the Trump Administration’s Decision to Leave the World Health Organization

Democratic Senators Call for USAID to Investigate Anti-LGBT, Anti-Muslim Comments by Appointees

Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Mass Border Expulsions

“I Can’t Speak Negatively About the President,” Says Official Charged With Stimulus Oversight

U.S. Foreign Aid Agency Defends Political Appointees Who Wrote Anti-LGBT, Anti-Islam Posts

The CARES Act Sent You a $1,200 Check but Gave Millionaires and Billionaires Far More

New Trump Appointee to Foreign Aid Agency Has Denounced Liberal Democracy and “Our Homo-Empire”