As news editor, Matthew leads reporters and guides coverage — both breaking news and in-depth reporting. He has an extensive background in investigative and public interest journalism. He previously worked for Voice of America, The San Francisco Standard and OCCRP, and also spent six years abroad as a reporter and editor in Kyiv and Moscow.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced that Vice President Vance would lead a “war on fraud.” The comment appears to stem from a plan for an assistant attorney general who answers directly to the White House.
A New York Appellate Court has ruled that the state’s independent redistricting commission must draw up a new congressional map, after a court struck down* the state’s current 11th Congressional District for diluting the voting power of Black and Latino residents. In a decision Thursday, the court rejected Republicans’ request to pause the lower court’s […]
A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on a Fulton County, Georgia election hub last month.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to allow Venezuelan men who were previously expelled to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador to return to the United States and challenge their removal from the country.
Federal law enforcement has arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon over his presence at a protest against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in Minnesota, during which demonstrators interrupted a church service.
When opponents of Missouri’s new, GOP-backed congressional map began gathering signatures to advance a ballot measure to veto the map, they faced an onslaught of opposition from Republicans.
President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism for bypassing Congress and conducting an overnight military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian leader of Venezuela, and bring him to the United States to stand trial.
The Justice Department pulled a photo of President Trump from the thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein it released Friday.
The Justice Department will potentially treat opponents of President Donald Trump’s policies as “domestic terrorists,” according to a leaked memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi to all U.S. law enforcement agencies.
As Donald Trump sat down for Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago, he had few reasons to give thanks. After less than a year spent destroying the federal government, sending troops into Democratic-led cities, violating the rights of immigrants and trying to rig the 2026 elections, momentum is no longer on his side.
