The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures views of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has eviscerated the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section, NBC News reports, in another sign that rampant unrestrained public corruption will be a defining ...

Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, ...

Georgia Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff criticizes the level of corruption in American politics, accepting President Trump's premise that the system is "rigged," but warning that Trump is not the solution.

Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, ...

Pay-for-play and quid pro quo have been elevated from corruption to custom, practiced in daylight as if they were the accepted rules of our democracy. What once would have been whispered in back rooms ...

During a rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) criticized the Trump administration. “Now, you ...

President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 10, 2025. Sipa USA Sipa USA President Trump’s executive order ...

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