Ahead of trade talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at next week’s G20 Summit in Japan, the U.S. Commerce Department said Friday that it has blacklisted five major Chinese tech companies due to national security concerns.
Read moreTurning up the heat on its probe of the census citizenship question, the House Oversight Committee voted 24-15 Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for not complying with subpoenas.
Read moreHouse Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said Friday he will forge ahead with contempt proceedings for the leaders of the Justice and Commerce departments as part of the probe into their manipulation of the 2020 census.
Read moreHouse Democrats will vote next week to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress if they do not hand over all documents related to the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreA month after Supreme Court appeared primed to allow a citizenship question on the upcoming census, new evidence emerged on Thursday suggesting the controversial query was explicitly designed to benefit white Republicans.
Read moreSuggesting that the Trump administration will get its way, the Supreme Court’s more conservative justices seemed undisturbed Tuesday by evidence that it would distort census counts in 2020 to ask respondents about their citizenship.
Read moreWilbur Ross had been secretary of commerce just two months when he emailed staffers about making a change to the census, one that could shape Democratic politics for 10 years to come. At Supreme Court oral arguments Tuesday, his missive is expected to figure prominently.
Read moreA trio of federal wildlife management agencies said Friday that listing the Northern California summer-run steelhead on the Endangered Species Act may be warranted, but said more public input is needed before a final determination is made.
Read moreThe number of salmon that can be fished out of the ocean this year will be similar to last year’s allowance, according to draft rules adopted Monday by the Pacific Fishery Management Council, which did not make any adjustments to the allowance based on the number of salmon that endangered Southern Resident killer whales need to eat.
Read moreLess than three weeks before the Supreme Court weighs the issue, a federal judge in Maryland on Friday became the third to block the Trump administration’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Read moreA day before the fight for the Mueller report is expected to turn the same corner, a powerful House committee voted Tuesday to subpoena the Trump administration over its security-clearance practices and the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreAccusing him of misleading Congress and withholding key documents, House Democrats on Thursday tore into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreA federal judge ordered U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to nix plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, ruling Wednesday that its addition would be illegal as well as “fundamentally counterproductive to the goal of obtaining accurate citizenship data about the public.”
Read moreFighting to grill census takers on their citizenship, a move that experts say will hurt Democratic politics across the country for a decade, the Trump administration received word Friday that it can argue its case before the Supreme Court in April.
Read moreA federal trial began Tuesday for lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a plan that a different court blocked last week.
Read moreAfter a federal judge nixed a new citizenship question on the 2020 census, attorneys for the Trump administration and its challengers told the Supreme Court late Thursday to cancel its upcoming hearing on case.
Read moreBlocking the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a federal judge blasted Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Tuesday with a ruling that says the Trump appointee “violated the public trust.”
Read moreThe U.S. Census Bureau’s top scientist on Friday disputed claims that U.S. Secretary Wilbur Ross decided to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census before weighing all the evidence.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s fiery comments and immigration policies took center stage Wednesday on the second full day of a bench trial over the push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
Read moreRebounding from a drop in revenue the previous year, fisheries across the U.S. generated $212 billion in 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported.
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