Government Accountability

The White House pursued a "months-long effort" involving top officials to extract concessions from Ukraine's government aimed at helping President Trump's reelection in 2020,

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the SDNY and FBI investigators are making their way through what prosecutor Douglas Zolkind called a "voluminous" amount of evidence in the case

Two deputies were reassigned within months of filing complaints against their boss, an attorney says.

The Murphy administration has kept its pledge to create a new district-by-district clearinghouse for information on lead contamination in New Jersey schools’ drinking water.

The increasingly powerful body does a lot of lawmaking, but some issues — like the city’s distressingly high poverty rate — refuse to budge.

The first week of Trump impeachment inquiry hearings is in the books.

According to the most recent federal data, as of June 2019 more than 210,000 borrowers were waiting to have their claims processed under a 1995 rule known as borrower defense.

It’s unclear exactly what went wrong with the commonwealth’s dated system, but from Thursday to Sunday, a crash kept unemployed people from filing claims.

Republicans in the state legislature have long pushed to privatize the commonwealth’s state-run liquor industry.

For the third time in almost 46 years, the House of Representatives has voted to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into the actions of the sitting president.

State Sen. John Paradee’s bill would direct tax money to a youth sports complex, possibly benefiting his brother’s planned hotel/shopping project.

“Without bipartisan support I believe this inquiry will further divide the country tearing it apart at the seams and will ultimately fail in the Senate,” Van Drew said.

The bills are in their early days, but they’ve already gotten early rebukes from staff for one of two pension systems.

Campaign accounts must be used for “influencing the outcome of an election.” But what qualifies is largely open to interpretation.

At issue is whether the state should have reduced funds to employers who hire people with intellectual disabilities.