Evening Edition: Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience
'Maybe someone dies': Facebook VP justified bullying, terrorism as costs of 'growth' ; Unarmed Stephon Clark was shot 8 times, mostly in his back, according to family's autopsy
An obscure White House office is struggling to place qualified people in key posts across government, documents and interviews show. At the same time, two office leaders have spotty records themselves.
By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg • Read more »
In a 2016 memo, Andrew Bosworth defended the company's questionable data mining practices. Bosworth, who oversaw Facebook's advertising and business platform at the time, said he only intended to start a debate.
Clark, a black man and a father of two, was fatally shot on March 18 by Sacramento police officers who said they thought he had a gun. Only a cellphone was found.
Cynthia Nixon, the "Sex and the City" star, has been an activist for years on education and gay rights. She faces tough odds in her primary bid against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, whom she casts as insufficiently liberal in a strongly Democratic state.
Rep. Jim Jordan said the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility determined that ousted deputy director Andrew McCabe lied to his superiors and investigators four times.
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The Environmental Protection Agency administrator initially rented part of a Capitol Hill condo — for $50 a night, an exceedingly good rate — from a health-care lobbyist.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk captured the imagination of investors for everything from a super-fast underground hyperloop to space voyages to Mars. But he's struggling with the more prosaic mission of assembling a passenger car here on Earth.
Designed by a Dutch student in 2006, it looks like some combination of a Stealth bomber and Batman's cape. But it withstands pelting rain and gusts up to 70 mph.
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