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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Shakedown: Trump DOJ pressured lawyers to “find” evidence that UCLA illegally tolerated antisemitism

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A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant November 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

The latest Trump and DOGE casualty: Energy data

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5G cellular communications tower (Getty Images/D-Keine)

The FCC is supposed to protect the environment. It doesn’t

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5G cellular communications tower (Getty Images/D-Keine)

What to know about cellphone radiation

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Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

How Congress finally cracked down on a massive tax scam

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America’s drinking water is surprisingly easy to poison

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US President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meet the shadowy accountants who do Trump’s taxes and help him seem richer than he is

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The IRS tried to crack down on rich people using an “abusive” tax deduction. It hasn’t gone so well

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Donald Trump along with his son Donald, Jr., arrive for a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, as Allen Weisselberg (C), chief financial officer of The Trump, looks on January 11, 2017. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

Prosecutors investigating the Trump Organization zero in on Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg

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Donald Trump Jr. (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Trump Jr. invested in a hydroponic lettuce company whose chair was seeking Trump admin funds

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The New Trump hotel in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Celebrity chef Jose Andres is backing out of a plan to open a flagship restaurant in Donald Trump's new hotel under construction in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Inside a Trump project that failed. Spoiler: The Trumps still won

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How a typical government leak turned into a three-way war between Comey, McCabe and Trump

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The six stages of Trump’s resistance

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Andrew McCabe (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Revelations about the FBI’s delay on Clinton emails may be less than they seem

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James Comey’s testimony on Huma Abedin forwarding emails was inaccurate

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