The National Institutes of Health is still blaming processing delays for public records requests on the COVID-19 shutdown from five years ago, with response times to simple inquiries reportedly averaging months. To this day, NIH’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) portal says hospitals, research institutions, healthcare companies, and medical professionals whose records are subject to information […]

New York on Friday agreed to pay nearly $500,000 to settle a case in which a woman accused Andrew Cuomo of sexually harassing her during his time as the State’s governor.  Brittany Commisso filed a criminal complaint against Cuomo in 2021, accusing him of reaching under her blouse and groping her breast when she was […]

President Donald Trump on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and related parties for publishing a story regarding his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The president’s lawsuit targeted Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and the two reporters who wrote the story, Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo, along with the […]

The Trump administration asked federal judges on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts from the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, citing public demand for transparency and renewed scrutiny of how the Justice Department handled the high-profile sex-trafficking cases. The requests, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follow […]