Despite Claims, Trump Rarely Uses Wartime Law in Battle Against Covid
As schools reopen and cold weather heightens the likelihood of a spike in coronavirus cases, nurses and doctors fear that shortages of the respirator masks,...
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Investigation of Medicare Chief Seema Verma Exposes Underside of Washington
WASHINGTON — A girls’ night at the Georgetown home of a prominent journalist, a lobbying push for soft-focus features in glossy magazines, a professional makeup...
How One Man Conned the Beltway
The spy was recruiting for his secret task force. Scattered about the Beltway in grim brick and glass monoliths was a small army of gung-ho...
Trump Moves to Cancel Contracts for Government Sensitivity Training
President Trump has directed administration officials to make significant changes to sensitivity training sessions across the government, calling such efforts that often focus on promoting...
Pentagon Sticks With Microsoft for Cloud Computing Contract
The Defense Department on Friday reaffirmed its decision to award a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft, despite protests from Amazon, which had argued that...
In Bid for TikTok, Microsoft Flexes Its Power in Washington
SEATTLE — Microsoft’s quiet pursuit to buy TikTok suddenly appeared dead a month ago, when President Trump said he wanted to ban the popular social...
South Africa’s Big Coronavirus Aid Effort Tainted by Corruption
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Contracts are being doled out to family members. Food parcels have gone missing. And funds meant for unemployment insurance are making...
A Private Security Company Is Detaining Migrant Children at Hotels
The Trump administration has been using major hotel chains to detain children and families taken into custody at the border, creating a largely unregulated shadow...
Oracle Pay Bias Case: Trump’s Labor Chief Accused of Intervening
A senior Labor Department lawyer contends she faces removal from her job after objecting to Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s intervention in a pay discrimination case...
Health Experts Warn About Perils of New Virus Data Collection System
WASHINGTON — Nearly three dozen current and former members of a federal health advisory committee, including nine appointed or reappointed by Health Secretary Alex M....