RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA’s public records transparency teams

Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., multiple officials said.  The process of fulfilling FOIA requests from reporters, advocacy groups

Trump official admits “administrative error” in deporting man to El Salvador

The Trump administration admitted in a court filing Monday that an “administrative error” and an “oversight” resulted in a Salvadoran man’s deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there. Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office director Robert Cerna said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was

Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin’s nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney

President Trump’s controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination. Martin, a “Stop the Steal” advocate and former defense attorney who represented U.S. Capitol riot defendants, is Mr. Trump’s nominee to be U.S.

House effort to allow remote votes for new parents survives in a blow to Johnson

Washington — The House on Tuesday defeated an effort that would have effectively killed a push to allow new parents to vote remotely around the birth of their child, an embarrassing loss for House Speaker Mike Johnson.  Nine Republicans joined all Democrats during a procedural vote to help sink it. Johnson called the outcome “disappointing,”