“The man President Donald Trump wants to put in charge of protecting whistleblowers – and rooting out government corruption – is a 30-year-old lawyer with barely a year of government experience and a history of racist invective, conspiratorial rants, and affinity for a well-known White nationalist

“A new presidential portrait sits in the Colorado Capitol, after one that had hung in the building for six years drew the ire of Donald Trump, who claimed that it ‘purposefully distorted’ his image,” the Washington Post reports. “The original portrait was swiftly removed, and this week a noticeably

“The House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas Tuesday to Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, demanding additional documents from the schools as part of an ongoing probe into alleged antitrust violations in Ivy League tuition and financial aid policies,” CNBC reports. “The two

“The Trump administration’s plan for mass layoffs at the State Department has left much of the workforce exasperated and embittered, tanking morale as extra demands were made to assist U.S. citizens seeking to flee the Middle East amid Israel’s war with Iran,” the Washington Post reports.

A new University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll finds approval of President Trump’s job performance falling into net-negative territory for the first time in his second term, with 44% approving and 51% disapproving — tied for the highest negative job approval rating ever recorded for him.