Trump administration

Former first lady Melania Trump launched a venture this week selling non-fungible tokens that must be paid for with Solan cryptocurrency, currently valued around $180 each.

Children and parents separated at the border under the Trump administration experienced severe psychological trauma that some are dealing with long after being reunited, the first qualitative study of children and parents has found. The study by Physicians for Human Rights published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS ONE concluded that the separation of 31 parents and children whose cases the group reviewed “constitutes cruel,...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo changed longstanding State Department policy and violated the Hatch Act with his speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, a government watchdog concluded in a report released Tuesday. The Office of Special Counsel’s 59-page report found Pompeo was one of at least 13 high-level Trump administration officials who violated the 1939 law designed to prevent the mixing...

U.S. wildlife officials say political appointees in President Donald Trump’s administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl

U.S. health officials are changing their definition of lead poisoning in young children.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago

The State Department inspector general is investigating whether Trump administration officials helped themselves to expensive Trump-branded gifts meant for foreign dignitaries, NBC News confirmed Tuesday. The Office of the Inspector General is investigating whether political appointees of then-President Donald Trump removed the taxpayer-funded presents from the State Department gift vault in January and took them home, a department official with knowledge...

President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing

The Biden administration is reversing a ban on abortion referrals by federally funded family planning clinics

Senior Pentagon officials say the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to a 2020 U.S. agreement with the Taliban that promised a complete U.S. troop withdrawal

The Biden administration has revoked a Trump-era rule that consumer advocates argued allowed the Education Department to subvert state law enforcement probes of student loan servicers — one of a series of recent overhauls that could pave the way for more robust investigations. In a new letter obtained by NBC News, a group of Democratic senators are expressing support for Education Secretary Miguel...

A federal judge in Anchorage has thrown out Trump administration approvals for a large planned oil project.

The Justice Department says the Treasury Department must provide the House Ways and Means Committee former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, apparently ending a long legal showdown over the records

Tom Barrack, who is accused of secretly working as an agent for the United Arab Emirates and was the chair for former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, was ordered freed after posting a $250 million dollar bail Friday.

A Manhattan jury on Tuesday convicted a Chicago banker of criminal charges for enabling Paul Manafort to get $16 million in loans before the former campaign manager for ex-President Donald Trump helped him get an interview for a job in the Trump administration.

John Demers will leave his position by the end of next week, a Justice Department official told The Associated Press on Monday. The resignation comes amid questions about what Demers knew about the Justice Department’s efforts to secretly seize the phone data from House Democrats and reporters as part of the aggressive investigations into leaks.

The Biden administration says it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal crossings.

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation

CNN says the Trump administration Justice Department secretly obtained the 2017 phone records of a CNN correspondent