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By Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A top Democratic leader weighing Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director accused him Tuesday of directing a purge of career officials and later perjuring himself in Senate testimony by saying he had no knowledge of any plans for dismissals. In a publicly released letter, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) […]

By Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A top Democratic leader weighing Kash Patel’s nomination for FBI director accused him Tuesday of directing a purge of career officials and later perjuring himself in Senate testimony by saying he had no knowledge of any plans for dismissals. In a publicly released letter, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) […]

By Susan Svrluga · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A federal district judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday, blocking the Trump administration from makingdrastic cuts to biomedical research funding in 22 states that banded together to sue. Judge Angel Kelley, in federal district court in Massachusetts, ordered the National Institutes of Health not to implement a funding […]

By Susan Svrluga · The Washington Post (c) 2025 A federal district judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday, blocking the Trump administration from makingdrastic cuts to biomedical research funding in 22 states that banded together to sue. Judge Angel Kelley, in federal district court in Massachusetts, ordered the National Institutes of Health not to implement a funding […]

By Mariana Alfaro · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Michigan), have set up a whistleblower complaint portal for federal workers to submit any reports of what they see as unlawful activities in their respective agencies in response to Elon Musk and his group’s […]

By Mariana Alfaro · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Michigan), have set up a whistleblower complaint portal for federal workers to submit any reports of what they see as unlawful activities in their respective agencies in response to Elon Musk and his group’s […]

By Jonathan Edwards · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Cole Schmidtknecht expected to pay $66.86 for a three-month supply of his preventative asthma inhalers in January 2024 when he went to his Walgreens pharmacy in Appleton, Wisconsin. The pharmacy allegedly told him his insurance no longer covered the medication, so he would have to pay the full cost. […]

By Jonathan Edwards · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Cole Schmidtknecht expected to pay $66.86 for a three-month supply of his preventative asthma inhalers in January 2024 when he went to his Walgreens pharmacy in Appleton, Wisconsin. The pharmacy allegedly told him his insurance no longer covered the medication, so he would have to pay the full cost. […]

By Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered the […]

By Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump ordered the […]