Tag: government transparency
Civil rights groups sue HHS over records tied to $10 billion...
Advocates say the Trump administration must disclose how disputed fraud allegations involving Somali childcare providers became the basis for sweeping restrictions on federal aid.
Minnesota sues Trump administration after federal agents withhold evidence in fatal...
State officials say federal authorities blocked access to key evidence following deaths tied to Operation Metro Surge.
Raskin says DOJ memo suggests Trump retained classified documents tied to...
New disclosures raise questions about whether highly restricted national security materials were kept for private advantage.
Epstein file search logs in Bondi binder raise surveillance concerns during...
Photograph from Judiciary Committee session prompts accusations that DOJ tracked lawmakers reviewing Epstein records.
Justice department under fire as Epstein file redactions trigger congressional backlash
Lawmakers accuse DOJ and FBI of violating transparency law while exposing survivors and shielding powerful figures.
Musk-linked operatives gain access to Social Security Administration, raising fears of...
A new investigation reveals that Musk-linked operatives with little government experience have gained access to sensitive Social Security data, raising alarms over potential benefit disruptions, privacy risks, and a broader push to privatize the agency.
Supreme Court rules against government transparency in contracts with private businesses
Reversing decades of precedent, highest court allows private corporations to block release of government information.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of war
A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.
A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...
Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.