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A sophomore in Congress watched with growing concern as the Department of Justice fired a top ethics official, ousted investigators of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and opened ...

Karoline Leavitt’s claim she’s not part of Trump’s political team sparks confusion, raising questions about her role, ...

When President Donald Trump tried to cancel five massive offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast, it ...

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This week on Inside California Politics, political analysts Ed Emerson and Tim Rosales joined host Nikki Laurenzo to discuss ...

Democrats have been stockpiling ideas for months on how to retaliate against companies and figures that have aligned themselves closely to President Donald Trump's political agenda, telegraphing that ...

If you’d like to understand the special kind of political dysfunction that paralyzes American politics, just consider two numbers: 16 and 97. You live in a country where Congress has a 16 percent job ...

The political appointee workforce in the federal government is at its largest size in decades while the number of career employees in the Senior Executive Service has decreased by nearly 30% since the ...

In the divided and often hostile times we live in, it’s only reasonable that many employers have dissuaded—or at times formally forbidden—staff from discussing politics and other potentially explosive ...

Controversy around trawling — once the kind of inside-baseball skirmish that only fisheries scientists and coastal ...