Republicans in control of Congress reacted with a collective shrug on Tuesday to the revelation that top Trump administration national security officials had used a messaging app to chat about military operations, even as Democrats expressed outrage and called for an investigation and resignations. One day after the existence of a group chat about airstrikes … Read more
The Trump administration has removed a longstanding directive from the civil rights era that explicitly prohibited federal contractors from allowing segregated facilities, the latest move to eradicate diversity, equity and inclusion policies from government operations that has drawn fierce rebuke. The removal of the segregated-facilities policy was included in a memo last month from the … Read more
For years, as the government has declassified and published documents related — some very tenuously — to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the assumption expressed by conspiracy theorists and some historians was that anything still being withheld could be big. That assumption led some of President Trump’s allies, including Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F. … Read more