The Paper Trail

Natalie Harp Worked Without a Security Clearance; DOD Admits It Has a Journalist Blacklist; Why Are U.S. Roads Exploding

ICE’s Broken System for Inspecting Detention Facilities; Chatbots Do Congress' Work with Little Oversight; Utility Companies "Educate" Regulators with Big Donations, Secret Retreats

GAO Finds DOGE Overstated Its Savings; Trade Schools Cheat Military Veterans; Police Use Flock Cameras for Stalking

Donald Jr.'s Staggering Investment Returns; 74% of Federal Grants Untraceable to Local Level; Iran's Damage to U.S. Military Sites

CDC Cyclospora Lab Downsized By DOGE; FCC Officials Feted By Paramount; Data Centers Add Billions In Power Costs

Trump Denies Disaster Aid for D States; Therapists Blame Kalshi for Gambling Addiction; Who’s Behind the $3.47-Gallon Gas Stations?

Trump’s Massive Crypto Windfall; SCOTUS’s Troubling Milestone; Freedom 250 Donors Allegedly Cheated

New Intel Chief Begins Mass Firings at ODNI; Kash Patel Accused of Loyalist “Slush Fund”; The Unrelenting Sound of the AI Boom

Trump Weighed Suspending Habeas for Immigrants;
DOD Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Trafficking Victims;
World Cup Fans—You’re Being Watched;
And More.

8,000 Federal Employees are Now “Schedule Effed”;
White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Grantees;
Jan. 6 Rioter Appointed to Sensitive Government Job;
And More.

Trump’s Opportunistic Stock Trades; DOJ Goes After E. Jean Carroll; Justice Alito’s Son Quietly Holds Senior Treasury Post; And More.