The Treasury Department is pooling information about people who received benefits from pandemic-era relief programs in a new, central database it says will be used to conduct program audits. It’s the ...

President Donald Trump is again trying to exert control over American elections, signing an executive order Tuesday that aims to create federal lists of citizens and ask the U.S. Postal Service to ...

Lauren Harper is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized ...

Under the spotlight during a House Judiciary hearing, the DHS secretary denied claims that her department is building a database of anti-ICE protesters Joe Raedle/Getty Kristi Noem denied that the ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) vowed her administration will create a database for New Jerseyans to upload videos of federal immigration officers conducting enforcement activities. “We are putting out ...

A U.S. citizen in Texas lost his voter registration after a federal screening system wrongly labeled him a noncitizen. In recent months, nearly 50 million Americans have had their names run through a ...

Marc Santos is a Guides Staff Writer from the Philippines with a BA in Communication Arts and over six years of experience in writing gaming news and guides. He plays just about everything, from ...

Where did the Diverse Sources Database go? It's here — in a new form. The Training team moved the contents of training.npr.org from an external server to npr.org earlier this year as part of efforts ...

The possible creation of a shareable, governmentwide database of Americans’ personal information would be a “surveillance nightmare,” 10 House and Senate Democrats wrote in a letter to the tech ...

On May 30, 2025, The New York Times published an article titled "Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans," detailing a supposed combined effort between the U.S. federal government and the ...