Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner took in as much as $135 million in revenue during their second year as aides to President Donald Trump, generated from their vast real estate holdings, stocks and bonds and even a book deal, according to their financial disclosures released Friday.
Read moreCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington brought a federal complaint over the failure of the Federal Elections Commission to act on charges that Freedom Vote and Fighting for Ohio Fund failed to register as political committees and file disclosure statements.
Read moreFederal regulators are moving to require that brokers provide their customers with detailed disclosures of their potential conflicts of interest when dispensing advice for retirement planning and other investments.
Read moreThe White House on Tuesday again directed former employees not to cooperate with a congressional investigation, this time instructing former aides Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson to defy subpoenas and refuse to provide documents to the House Judiciary Committee.
Read moreAn attorney for a lawmaker who helped create Alabama’s ethics statutes argued Tuesday before the state’s high court that prosecutors misinterpreted the law when they charged the former state House speaker for his business dealings while in office.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel overturned a lower court decision Wednesday in a ruling with implications for how state confidentiality provisions apply to unelected officials versus elected ones.
Read moreresident Trump’s latest financial disclosure report is expected to provide a rare glimpse into whether his presidency has helped or hurt his hotels, golf resorts and other parts of his business empire.
Read moreEight men and four women were chosen as jurors Monday for the upcoming trial of cult founder Keith Raniere, a leader of the purported self-help group NXIVM who is accused of running a sex-slavery ring within the secretive organization.
Read moreThe toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight cases of serious depression among employees over a three-year span at France’s main telephone and internet company.
Read moreIn a first-of-its-kind report issued Thursday, California’s state auditor found the state’s method for investigating judicial misconduct is shoddy, outdated and likely letting bad judges off the hook.
Read moreThe Inspector General for the Department of the Interior announced Monday that it will investigate newly confirmed Secretary David Bernhardt’s potential conflicts of interests and whether he acted inappropriately by blocking an internal scientific report, which found that a commonly used pesticide harmed a wide range of endangered species.
Read moreThe president of the United States lambastes the network regularly as fake news. A convicted domestic terrorist mailed two pipe bombs to its offices. Now, the Republican legislators from the state whose capital CNN chose for its global headquarters have advanced a bill described as a threat to press freedom.
Read moreA career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump’s administration were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds, such as concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct.
Read moreCalling it unclear whether former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s $50-per-day rental of Capitol Hill apartment was a legitimate gift or an improper reward, a federal ethics watchdog refused Tuesday to certify the erstwhile administrator’s financial-disclosure forms.
Read moreThe Pentagon’s inspector general has opened an investigation into a watchdog group’s allegations that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has used his office to promote his former employer, Boeing.
Read moreA World Health Organization panel is urging researchers in the rapidly growing field of editing human genes to stay away from using the biotechnology to make better babies.
Read moreShining a light on the consensual affair between a pair of government prosecutors, a federal judge ruled that their privacy rights are outweighed by the interest in public accountability.
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Friday passed a sweeping elections and ethics reform bill that makes changes to voting registration, redistricting and campaign finance rules, but the measure is unlikely to become law because of Republican opposition in the Senate.
Read moreAt a hearing Thursday on the high court’s budget, Justice Elena Kagan told lawmakers that Chief Justice John Roberts is looking into the possibility of drafting a code of conduct that applies only to Supreme Court justices.
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