District of Columbia

Appeals court deals blow to Trump’s Medicaid work rules

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's effort to remake Medicaid by requiring low-income people to work for health care suffered a serious setback Fr...
20:34 14 February 2022

Trump lawyer blurs lines between charity and profit

WASHINGTON — Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump’s lead attorneys during the impeachment trial, is being paid for his legal work through a rent...
22:33 30 January 2022

DC claims inaugural committee spending enriched Trump family

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s inaugural committee spent more than $1 million to book a ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in the nation's capital...
20:07 22 January 2022

Not on form, but brawl over citizenship question continues

The U.S. Supreme Court decided a citizenship question won't be on this spring's census form, but that doesn't mean the fight over it has ended in cou...
13:42 12 January 2022

Unique sex-abuse suit filed against Boy Scouts in US capital

A team of lawyers filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to establish the nation’s capital as a venue for men across the...
1:13 7 January 2022

An eye on impeachment, judges weigh House-Trump disputes

WASHINGTON — With an eye to impeachment, federal appellate judges struggled Friday with whether to grant House Democrats' demands for testimony from f...
21:37 3 January 2022

Ex-Trump aide Manafort told FBI he had ‘no chance at trial’

WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he knew he “had no chance at trial" when he pleaded guilty in special counsel Robert Mu...
1:55 3 January 2022

US officials granting $29 million for coastal protection

NEW ORLEANS — Projects to protect Texas marshes from erosion and an Alaskan village from the Bering Sea are getting help from some of the 44 grants aw...
15:26 18 November 2021