Congress Quietly Used Funding Law to Try to Rein In Trump on Spending

Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration’s hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample congressional power.Read More
Michigan Judge Rebukes Justice Department’s Effort to Obtain Voter Data

The ruling from a Trump-appointed federal judge is the third in recent weeks to reject the administration’s demand for voters’ personal data from nearly every state.Read More
Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated With Election Denier in Trump White House

A newly unsealed affidavit showed that a criminal investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.Read More
Epstein Files Reveal Efforts to Build Ties With Russian Officials, Including Putin

New documents detail Jeffrey Epstein’s efforts to foster strategic, sometimes reciprocal relationships with Russian officials.Read More
Ahead of Jobs Report, White House Seeks to Downplay Any Slowdown

President Trump’s top aides have argued in recent days that the economy is strong, even if new data on Wednesday show sluggish hiring.Read More
DHS Shutdown Looms as Senate Democrats Reject White House ICE Deal

Republicans have so far spurned most of Democrats’ demands to rein in federal agents carrying out President Trump’s immigration crackdown, threatening a homeland security funding bill ahead of a Friday deadline.Read More
Former Palm Beach Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew About Epstein in 2006

Michael Reiter, a former Palm Beach police chief, described a 2006 conversation with Donald Trump to the F.B.I. years later, according to a newly released document.Read More
Chappell Roan Leaves Casey Wasserman Agency Over Epstein Files

Casey Wasserman, who founded and leads the talent agency bearing his name, exchanged flirtatious emails with Ghislaine Maxwell in the early 2000s.Read More
Epstein Directed Aide to Obtain Hidden Video Cameras

“I’m installing them into Kleenex boxes now,” the aide replied in the 2014 email exchange.Read More
Epstein’s Cash and Influence Helped Women Attend Columbia and N.Y.U.

Federal records show that Jeffrey Epstein used donations and connections as he sought to gain college admission for young women in his orbit.Read More