Government Accountability

A top aide to the Pennsylvania governor was accused of sexually harassing a female staffer. The settlement included a confidentiality clause.

The superseding indictment was filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. It says the conspiracy occurred from January 2018 to June 2022.

A group appointed by Gov. Shapiro believes a cap-and-trade program would help meet his ambitious climate goals, although the members lacked consensus on how best to proceed.

The 23-count indictment replaces one filed earlier against the New York Republican.

The police department was put under state supervision in March, after officers there shot and killed a well-known crisis intervention worker during a tense standoff.

Weisselberg, also a defendant in the lawsuit, is expected to testify about his role in preparing Trump’s annual financial statements.

An investigation was launched after Biden's lawyers found classified documents in multiple areas in his Delaware residence and in an office in Washington, D.C.

Trump wanted to halt the trial while he fights a pretrial ruling that could strip him of control of such assets as Trump Tower.

A Bogota Police Department report said Nadine Menendez, who wasn't yet married to the senator at the time and went by Nadine Arslanian, "was not at fault in this crash."

The motion amounts to the most pointed attack yet by defense lawyers on the federal case charging Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

After Trump slammed the judge's principal law clerk on social media Tuesday, the judge ordered all participants in the trial not to hurl personal attacks at court staffers.

Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina was named speaker pro tempore in the interim.

It came after Trump recirculated a disparaging social media post about Engoron’s principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield. Trump then deleted the post.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., launched the process for holding a vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker but the road ahead is still unclear.

The tentative trial date of May 6 would come just one month before New Jersey's June 4 primary.