Category: Politics

The request from HHS is the latest example of efforts to use government scientists to advance the president’s political objectives. CDC career scientists are pushing back.

Madison Cawthorn issued a statement Friday correcting the language on a newly created website and removing the racist characterization.

He denied building horrible cages — and insisted the kids were well taken care of.

Democrats are expected to put up some dilatory procedural roadblocks but lack the votes to stop confirmation of Trump’s nominee, which is expected Monday evening.

After a mostly unwatchable first debate, then a canceled second one, we got a heated but relatively substantive final matchup between Biden and Trump Thursday in Nashville.

Trump in the final debate continued his long-running quest to assure people that, despite his wayward past coronavirus forecasts, we truly are nearing the end of this thing. But his citation of coronavirus “spikes” was extremely selective.

Other studies, using different methods and different data sets, have reached different conclusions about the pay of federal workers.

Even relatively anodyne pronouncements are layered with dubiousness and politics.

Career federal employees whose work involves making policy would no longer be hired under competitive procedures.

The 2016 interview, given as part of a civil lawsuit, was made public Thursday after Maxwell’s vigorous effort to keep it sealed.

Joe Biden tells CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he would create a bipartisan commission to tackle a system that’s “out of whack.”

They sound a lot like what led to his impeachment.