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2 months ago | 
southfloridareporter.com | Jeff Stein |Elizabeth Dwoskin |Hannah Natanson |Jonathan O’Connell
By Jeff Stein, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Hannah Natanson and Jonathan O’ConnellBillionaire Elon Musk’s blitzkrieg on Washington has brought into focus his vision for a dramatically smaller and weaker government, as he and a coterie of aides move to control, automate — and substantially diminish — hundreds if not thousands of public functions. In less than three weeks, Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service has followed the same playbook at one federal agency after another: Install loyalists in leadership.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
stripes.com | Michael Kranish |Josh Dawsey |Jonathan O’Connell
Pete Hegseth arrives at Trump Tower in New York in November 2016. (Evan Vucci/AP) Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement, though he maintained that their encounter was consensual, according to astatement from his lawyer Saturday and other documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
stripes.com | Jonathan O’Connell
The list targeted career civil servants at the Department of Homeland Security, above, and other agencies.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Jonathan O’Connell |Michael Scherer |Tyler Pager
After taking over the Democratic ticket, picking a running mate, staging a convention and turning in a strong debate performance, Vice President Kamala Harris is now embracing potentially the riskiest test of a presidential campaign — the day-to-day grind of unscripted interviews. This week alone, Harris is appearing on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” a Univision town hall, Howard Stern on Sirius XM, “Late Night with Stephen Colbert” and the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. Her running mate, Minnesota Gov.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Jonathan O’Connell |Clara Ence Morse
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democrats’ recently selected vice-presidential nominee, owns no businesses, individual stocks, a home or other real estate — a modest financial position that may put him on par with other former high school teachers butcreates a striking contrast with the Republican nominee for vice president, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio).
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
stripes.com | Jonathan O’Connell |Teo Armus |Greg Schneider |Grégory Schneider |Michael Brice-Saddler
Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson, left, with Monumental Sports & Entertainment executive Ted Leonsis and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin at the announcement of the Potomac Yard arena proposal in Alexandria, Va., in December. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) D.C. Mayor Muriel E.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
stripes.com | David Kenner |Sarah Ellison |Jonathan O’Connell
A Newsmax television crew member steam irons a backdrop for the organization during a conservative political conference in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 24. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in Newsmax, according to documents and representatives for the media company and the royal, in a moment of acute Middle East tensions during the Trump administration.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Josh Dawsey |Jonathan O’Connell
As Donald Trump faces dwindling options to pay off a massive fine imposed as a result of losing a fraud case in New York, financial experts say filing for bankruptcy would provide one clear way out of his financial jam.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Josh Dawsey |Jonathan O’Connell |Shayna Jacobs
Hours after a New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay a $355 million penalty for submitting false data to financial institutions, the former president railed against the decision during a fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago Club with some of the Republican Party’s wealthiest donors. Trump claimed at that Feb. 16 gathering that the judge in the civil fraud case had made history by ordering him to pay such a staggering sum, according to two people who were there.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
estadao.com.br | Jonathan O’Connell |Shayna Jacobs |Josh Dawsey
Horas depois que um juiz de Nova York ordenou que Donald Trump pagasse uma multa de US$ 355 milhões por enviar dados falsos a instituições financeiras, o ex-presidente protestou contra a decisão durante um evento de arrecadação de fundos em seu clube Mar-a-Lago com alguns dos doadores mais ricos do Partido Republicano.
