Government Accountability

The Jan. 6 panel said it is looking closely at any ties between people in Trump’s orbit and extremist groups accused of helping put into motion the violence at the Capitol.

Friday’s decision from the federal appeals court in Washington almost certainly won’t be the last word in the legal fight that began in 2019.

Kathy McGuiness is Delaware’s first sitting elected statewide official to be convicted of a crime. State lawmakers want her removed from office. The only question is how.

Johnson was forced to concede defeat after two more members of his Cabinet quit and one of his closest allies, Treasury Chief Nadhim Zahawi, publicly told him to resign.

Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jurors on Friday acquitted McGuiness of felony theft and intimidation charges. But they found her guilty of conflict of interest official misconduct.

Despite a growing recognition of the newspaper industry's problems among politicians and philanthropists, a new report says a downward trend continues.

Previous witnesses have testified Cipollone was in meetings in which lawyers debated strategies to overturn former President Donald Trump’s election loss.

Lev Parnas had sought leniency on the grounds that he'd helped the Congressional probe of Trump and his efforts to get the leaders of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden's son.

The court says a judge sitting as a one-person grand jury had no power to issue indictments. It’s an extraordinary defeat for Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Doug Mastriano’s pledge to “reset” voter registrations ignores the safeguards that already remove hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters.

Hutchinson quoted Trump as directing his staff, in profane terms, to take away the metal-detecting magnetometers despite knowing the crowd was armed.

Lawmakers on the panel investigating the 2021 insurrection had previously indicated there would be no more hearings until July.

Former top DOJ officials say Trump contacted the agency’s leader “virtually every day” and strove in vain to enlist officials in his bid to stay in power.

The hearing was punctuated throughout with accounts of the personal attacks faced by state and local officials.