China did not import a single US soybean in November, the first time sales to the country have dropped to zero since US president Donald Trump initiated a trade war with the country earlier this year.
Nearly 800,000 people could lose their access to food stamps if US president Donald Trump gets his way. And many of them will be single, white men.
Donald Trump has trashed relationships with the US’s closest allies the past year, insulted foreign leaders, scorned decades-old alliances in overseas meetings, and undermined global regulatory bodies.
Like their counterparts in various industries, forensic scientists at the US Drug Enforcement Administration need helium for use in scientific instruments, which in their case test the nature and purity of narcotics and other substances.
For years, the phrase “weapons of mass destruction,” or WMDs, referred to physical threats: Nuclear bombs, chemical attacks, and biological warfare.
Updated Dec. 19 at 1:30pm EST with a statement from the Trump Organization.
Two new reports about Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election offer the most detailed account yet of the tactics deployed to manipulate voters.
There’s a patent infringement lawsuit in Houston that’s been going on since 2011, and the honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore can’t take it anymore.
Donald Trump could be spending up to 16 days at Mar-a-Lago over the holidays, an alert issued by the Federal Aviation Administration indicates. If he spends the full time there, it will be the US president’s longest stay at the Florida members-only resort Trump owns since he took office in January 2017.
The FBI announced its files were going digital in 2012. Nevertheless, the bureau will need to destroy an estimated 53 tons of “classified and sensitive” material in the coming year to ensure the FBI’s secrets stay secret.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using a futuristic eye-scanning device to weed out dishonest potential recruits during the initial application phase.
First daughter and US presidential adviser Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, vacationed at a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic over a long weekend in August. The cost to US taxpayers: more than $58,000.
When Russia’s leading mapping service attempted to blur out each and every military facility in Israel and Turkey, it inadvertently revealed their exact locations, perimeters, and potential functions to “anyone curious enough to find them all,” according to Matt Korda of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, the researcher who discovered the error.
When former US Secret Service agents Dario Marquez, Charles Vance, and Bill Mattman founded defense contractor MVM Inc. in 1979, they began by providing “executive protection and training services.” Today, the Ashburn, Virginia-based company employs more than 2,500 people, operates in 70 countries and all 50 US states, and is the main contractor tasked by the federal government to transport unaccompanied children separated from their families under US president Donald Trump’s so-called “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has hidden surveillance cameras in everything from streetlights to traffic barrels to road signs. Now, the agency will be using a vacuum cleaner for surveillance, according to recently released, publicly available federal contracting data.
The private, for-profit facilities the US government uses to detain immigrants generate roughly 175% more grievances from detainees than the ones run by the government itself, according to an analysis by an immigrant advocacy group.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2019, the minimum wage for US federal contract employees—that is, the workers hired by contractors for government jobs—will rise to $10.60 from $10.35. It’s a scheduled $0.25 increase from 2014, when then-president Barack Obama signed an executive order raising the hourly minimum wage for people working for federal contractors to $10.10, with annual adjustments thereafter. (All workers, according to the regulations, are to receive an additional $4.48 per hour in health-and-welfare benefits.)
There are 268 items for sale on the Trump Organization’s online store. Of those, 41 are made in the USA and listed in a separate section highlighting US goods. That means American products make up exactly 15.298507462686567% of the Trump Store’s available merchandise.
There’s no shortage of GPS trackers for parents who want to keep tabs on their children’s driving. After all, car accidents are the leading cause of death for American teens. For some parents, that’s enough.
US president Donald Trump flew to more than 40 political rallies in the months leading up to the 2018 mid-term elections, to coax his loyal fans to come out to the polls for Republican candidates. A Quartz analysis of Trump’s travel schedule and the latest Department of Defense operating figures for Air Force One aircraft suggests the tab for the air travel alone was $17 million.
The US Secret Service has allocated more than $90,000 for golf cart rentals in South Florida this winter, ostensibly to protect president Donald Trump while he hits the links.
The lawyer for failed Republican US senate candidate and accused child molester Roy Moore says he’s too busy to represent him right now. Moore is the plaintiff in an ongoing civil case against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for defamation, emotional distress, and fraud.
Just about everyone knows US Secret Service agents for the pins they wear on their lapels. They are one component of the larger system used to identify team members and are as tied to the agency’s image as dark suits, earpieces, and mirrored sunglasses. Yet, few people know what those very recognizable lapel pins are hiding.
There are currently 40 “war on terror” detainees being held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, down from a high of 677 inmates in 2003. While US president Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Guantanamo open to ensure the government has “all necessary power to detain terrorists, wherever we chase them down, wherever we find them,” the facility hasn’t received a single new prisoner since Trump took office.
