A watchdog group called for an investigation into Paycheck Protection Program loans to companies with connections to members of President Trump’s cabinet. “These sweetheart loans to companies with inside access to the administration should be…
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A watchdog group has accused Robert Charrow, the general counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services, of pushing to ease testing rules to help his former clients in the medical device and diagnostic…
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It’s been a mixed bag this week for Eastman Kodak, the storied camera giant that won a now-imperiled $765 million federal coronavirus drug manufacturing deal last month. An independent review commissioned by the company found…
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Advocates for lowering drug prices in the United States are raising alarm over an executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Sunday that the White House purports would challenge the nation’s pharmaceutical industry but…
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The United States Postal Service drafted an ambitious proposal in April to send a pack of five face masks to every residential address in the U.S. before top White House officials killed the idea, according…
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Donald Trump’s administration has yet to repay the U.S. Postal Service for a postcard it sent out in March prominently displaying the president’s name alongside a series of guidelines for combating COVID-19, according to a…
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A new analysis finds that the majority of the country’s largest public college systems received significantly less coronavirus aid from the government than they needed, leading to massive budget shortfalls. The review, done by nonprofit…
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Democrats and environmentalists on Wednesday continued their push to oust William Perry Pendley from leading the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), urging the White House to remove him from his post after his nomination to…
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The federal government’s main effort to rescue small businesses during the pandemic tended to benefit wealthier neighborhoods far more than predominantly Black parts of metro Buffalo, according to a new study by a group that…
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Amid growing concerns that the Trump administration is moving to bypass normal and crucial safety protocols in a rush to approve a Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the November election, the CEO of one of the…
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In several cases that have received heavy press attention, small business owners who said they needed money from the government to stay afloat during the economic downturn have been busted for falsifying information after being…
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The oil and gas industry has been allowed to pay far less than usual to the government for the right to drill on public lands under a controversial Trump administration coronavirus relief policy, an analysis…
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