Ethics and Official Misconduct
Santos’s Lies Were Known to Some Well-Connected Republicans
In late 2021, as he prepared to make a second run for a suburban New York City House seat, George Santos gave permission for his campaign to commission a routine background study on him. Campaigns frequently rely on this kind of research, known as vulnerability studies, to identify anything problematic that an opponent might seize […]
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G.O.P. Leaders Stand by Santos as New York Republicans Call on Him to Resign
Representatives Anthony D’Esposito, Nick LaLota, Nick Langworthy and Brandon Williams, all newly elected from New York, have called for Mr. Santos’s resignation on Wednesday. Of those, only Mr. Langworthy, who serves as the state party chair, is in a safely Republican district. The Nassau County G.O.P. chairman, Joseph G. Cairo Jr., has also called for […]
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George Santos Faces Calls to Resign From 4 GOP Congressmen
WESTBURY, N.Y. — Dozens of Republican officials in New York State, including four recently elected congressmen, urged Representative George Santos to resign on Wednesday in a fracturing of local party support for Mr. Santos. Their call represented a sharp break from congressional Republican leaders, who insisted they would not push the embattled congressman to resign. […]
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Zinke Is Accused of Misleading Interior Dept. Investigators in Casino Inquiry
Ryan Zinke, a former interior secretary during the Trump administration, intentionally misled investigators looking into his department’s decision not to act on two Native American tribes’ requests to open a new casino in Connecticut, the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General concluded in a report released on Wednesday. Mr. Zinke, who served as interior secretary […]
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How Scientists Are Reviving Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs
The pigs had been lying dead in the lab for an hour — no blood was circulating in their bodies, their hearts were still, their brain waves flat. Then a group of Yale scientists pumped a custom-made solution into the dead pigs’ bodies with a device similar to a heart-lung machine. What happened next adds […]
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The M.M.A. Doctor’s Dilemma: To Stop or Not to Stop the Fight
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Late one Saturday evening in June, two men in their 20s stood across from each other, shirtless and swaying, in a mixed martial arts cage in Exhibit Hall B of the Chattanooga Convention Center. The mat was sticky, a dark canvas of blood and foot sweat. Something in the combatants’ eyes made […]
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D.C. Bar Moves to Penalize Jeffrey Clark, Who Aided Trump in Election Plot
WASHINGTON — A disciplinary board is moving to penalize Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department official who worked to undo the results of the 2020 election, including the possibility of disbarment. A complaint filed this week by the D.C. Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which governs lawyers in Washington, accused Mr. Clark of interfering in […]
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Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage
WASHINGTON — Devastating new testimony by a former White House aide describing a president desperately clutching to power, indifferent to the danger threatening his No. 2 and potentially tampering with congressional witnesses, raised concerns among current and former advisers to Donald J. Trump on Tuesday about the possible legal and political consequences. Reactions were far […]
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South Africa’s Corruption Inquiry Leaves Few of the Nation’s Powerful Unscathed
JOHANNESBURG — The final findings of a three-year inquiry into deep-rooted corruption in South Africa were released Wednesday, part of a roughly 5,000-page report that heavily implicated the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, but also found fault with how current President Cyril Ramaphosa handled allegations of misconduct. South Africa’s chief justice, Raymond Zondo, who led […]
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