The U.S. Justice Department has sharply stepped back its anti-corruption efforts under President Donald Trump, from loosening ...

While the OGE director is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, director serve five-year terms to ensure that their tenures are not attached to the presidents who appointed them.

WASHINGTON — Eight inspectors general fired without notice last month sued in federal court Wednesday arguing President Donald Trump violated the law by not warning Congress of their terminations.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

How the U.S. Handled the Case: 1. The U.S. Congress launched an independent investigation through the Senate Watergate Committee, not a committee made up of Nixon’s allies. 2. The FBI and the ...

A two-thirds majority vote is required in the Senate to convict ... charges mostly related to Watergate - shorthand for the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and ...

artfully dodged most questions posed by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing this week. But we managed to learn quite a bit about her nonetheless.

The nomination of Mr. Patel, 44, has upended the post-Watergate tradition of picking ... In their letter on Wednesday, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee urged the acting attorney general ...

A group of Republican former government officials is urging senators to reject Kash Patel’s nomination to lead the FBI, saying his confirmation would be “a grievous mistake.” “Confirming Patel would ...

He has also threatened to criminally investigate members of the J6 committee,” they wrote, referring to the House select committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 ...

He was among those targeted by the investigation that consumed much of Bill Clinton’s presidency. But his conviction was ...