The hush money payments that brought 34 felony charges against Trump
April 4, 2023
With help from the National Enquirer tabloid and its former boss, Trump was used to paying women to keep quiet about his lies and adultery.
Congress votes on increasing COVID aid payments, override Trump’s veto of defense bill
December 28, 2020
While the increase of direct payments to $2,000 per person could pass the House, it is certain to die in the Senate. An angry Congress, however, is also certain to override Trump’s veto on the defense policy bill, another rebuke for the lame-duck president.
Trump’s ever-changing story on payments over sexual trysts
December 13, 2018
The sentencing of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, brought a perilous investigation into the president’s campaign one step closer to the Oval
Court documents say Trump violated federal laws
December 8, 2018
The Justice Department says that President Donald Trump directed illegal payments to buy the silence of two women whose claims of extramarital affairs threatened his
Whittaker paid nearly $1 million from right-wing group
November 21, 2018
Before joining the Justice Department, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker earned nearly $1 million from a right-leaning nonprofit that doesn’t disclose its donors, according to
‘Friends with benefits’ made millions on Trump’s inaugural
February 16, 2018
When some complained about the costs of a lavish inaugural celebration by incoming president Donald Trump, he and the nonprofit group created to plan and
Another miniscule hike in Social Security
October 13, 2017
Millions of Social Security recipients and other retirees can expect another small increase in benefits next year. Preliminary figures suggest that the annual increase will
Flynn failed to disclose Russian payments
April 3, 2017
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, failed to disclose payments from a Russian television network and two other firms linked to Russia
A bi-partisan push to change Medicare payments
March 18, 2015
Bipartisan House leaders are working on a $213 billion plan to permanently change how doctors are paid for treating Medicare patients, a costly problem that’s
Doctors who get rich from Medicare
April 9, 2014
Medicare paid a tiny group of doctors $3 million or more apiece in 2012. One got nearly $21 million. Those are among the findings of