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  • Donald Trump stands in front of a church holding a biblePolitics

    Trump’s $60 Bibles are printed in China, the same country he’s accused of stealing American jobs

    By Richard Lardner, Dake Kang, and others
  • The front cover of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Politics

    More than 100,000 of Trump’s ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles were printed in China

    By Richard Lardner, Dake Kang, and others
  • Donald Trump speaksPolitics

    Donald Trump’s monthly legal expenses dip below $1 million for the first time in 2 years

    By Aaron Kessler, Richard Lardner, and others
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    All the lawsuits Donald Trump is battling forced him to spend $76 million in the last 2 years alone

    By Richard Lardner, Aaron Kessler, and others
  • Sweetheart IslandPolitics

    ‘The uncomfortable truth is the federal criminal justice system is simply not equipped’: Feds seize $1.4 billion but it’s the tip of the pandemic fraud iceberg

    By Richard Lardner and The Associated Press
  • Associated Press reporter Richard Lardner kayaks to Sweetheart Island, off the coast of Yankeetown, Fla., on Aug. 5, 2023. Patrick Parker Walsh is serving five and half years in federal prison for stealing nearly $8 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds that he used, in part, to buy the island. (AP Photo/Julio Aguilar)Finance

    COVID-19 fraudster stole $8m in relief funds and used part to buy Florida’s private Sweetheart Island

    By Richard Lardner and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 15: Attorney General Merrick Garland gives remarks before a formal investiture ceremony for Rosemarie Hidalgo, the director of the office on Violence Against Women, in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice on August 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. Hidalgo was confirmed a month ago to take the position as director for the DOJ’s office that handles gender-based crime. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Health

    Hundreds are charged with stealing $830 million in COVID relief funds including gang members who allegedly used the money for murder

    By Richard Lardner and The Associated Press
  • MoneyPolitics

    SBA watchdog estimates over $200 billion of COVID relief fraud, but official claims ‘serious flaws that significantly overestimate’ damage

    By Richard Lardner, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • FILE – A portion of a Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Borrower Application Form is seen in Washington on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. An Associated Press analysis published on Monday, June 12, 2023, found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents a jarring 10 percent of the total $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has so far disbursed in COVID-relief aid. (AP Photo/Wayne Partlow, File)Finance

    How $400 billion in COVID-19 aid was stolen or wasted, by everyone from social security fraudsters to Texas pastors

    By Aaron Kessler, Richard Lardner, and others
  • DORTMUND, GERMANY – MARCH 02 : (BILD ZEITUNG OUT) Photo Illustration A syringe lies on a bottle of fluid in front of Johnson und Johnson’s logo due to Johnson und Johnson’s new vaccine against coronavirus on March 02, 2021 in Dortmund, Germany. (Photo by Alex Gottschalk/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)Health

    J&J’s vaccine mix-up started at supply chain firm with string of FDA citations

    By Richard Lardner, Linda Johnson, and others
  • Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Sen. David Perdue speaks during a campaign rally on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Cumming, Ga. Perdue and Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff are in a runoff election for the Senate seat in Georgia.Finance

    Georgia Senate runoff: Republican Perdue boosted his wealth with well-timed stock trades

    By The Associated Press, Brian Slodysko, and others
  • National security lawyer Mark ZaidPolitics

    Latest Trump Ukraine Scandal Subpoenas Issued in House Impeachment Inquiry

    By Eric Tucker, Richard Lardner, and others
  • President Trump Participates In Ceremonial Swearing In Of Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia At Oval OfficePolitics

    Second Trump Whistleblower Spoke to Inspector General, Lawyer Says

    By Erin Tucker, Richard Lardner, and others
  • UKRAINE-US-POLITICS-DIPLOMACYPolitics

    Will Kurt Volker Define Trump’s Role in the Ukraine for Impeachment Inquiry?

    By Stephen Braun, Richard Lardner, and others
  • Eugene Scalia labor secretaryPolitics

    Who Is Eugene Scalia? What to Know About Trump’s New Labor Secretary

    By Richard Lardner and The Associated Press