Richard Lardner, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - In this March 25, 2021 file photo, a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is shown in a refrigerator at a clinic in Washington state. A batch of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine failed quality standards and can’t be used, the drug giant said late Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The drugmaker didn’t say how many doses were lost, and it wasn’t clear how the problem would impact future deliveries. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Violations seen at vaccine producer

by Richard Lardner Associated Press, and Jason Dearen Associated PressApril 1, 2021

The company at the center of quality problems that led Johnson & Johnson to discard 15 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine has a string of citations from U.S. health officials for quality control problems. Emergent BioSolutions, a little-known…

President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday.

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2nd whistleblower adds to Trump peril

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, Richard Lardner Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressOctober 6, 2019

General Motors CEO Mary Barra speaks to reporters after a meeting with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to discuss GM's announcement it would stop making the Chevy Cruze at its Lordstown, Ohio, plant, part of a massive restructuring for the Detroit-based automaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. General Motors is fighting to retain a valuable tax credit for electric vehicles as the nation's largest automaker grapples with the political...

GM wants to keep key tax credit amid plant closings

by Richard Lardner Associated PressDecember 9, 2018

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at George Mason University Arlington, Va., campus. Complaints and lawsuits lodged against for-profit colleges are unfolding as DeVos engineers a seismic shift in the regulatory landscape that stands to benefit the multibillion-dollar industry.

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For-profit colleges have allies now, but complaints persist

by Richard Lardner Associated Press, and Collin Binkley Associated PressAugust 24, 2018

Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins, center, leaves federal court, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in New York. Rep. Collins of western New York state has been indicted on charges that he used inside information about a biotechnology company to make illicit stock trades (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Corporate ties in Congress under scrutiny

by Richard Lardner Associated PressAugust 9, 2018

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before meeting with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, Thursday, July 12, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington, . (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Millions from anonymous donors to influence Kavanaugh fight

by Richard Lardner Associated PressJuly 13, 2018

In this Feb. 22, 2018, photo, White House counsel Don McGahn gestures while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, at National Harbor, Md. President Trump and his appointees have stocked federal agencies with ex-lobbyists and corporate lawyers who now help regulate they very industries from which they collected paychecks. Records reviewed by The Associated Press show McGahn, has issued at least 24 ethics waivers to key administration officials at the White House and executive branch agencies.

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What swamp? Lobbyists get ethics waivers to work for Trump

by Michael Biesecker, Juliet Linderman and Richard Lardner March 8, 2018

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback reacts Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, to the news that his nomination to become ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom advanced Wednesday on a tied procedural vote broken by Vice President Mike Pence. Brownback had just finished presiding over the State Finance Council, which voted to approve a $362 million rebuild of Lansing Correctional Facility. (Thad Allton/Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)

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Senate narrowly OKs Brownback for religious freedom job

by Richard Lardner Associated PressJanuary 25, 2018

Heather Gooze, Las Vegas shooting witness, cries as she testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, entitled: "Firearm Accessory Regulation and Enforcing Federal and State Reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)."

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House OKs bill expanding ‘concealed carry’

by Matthew Daly Associated Press, and Richard Lardner Associated PressDecember 7, 2017

In this photo from Feb. 14, 2017, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., attends a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Conyers resigns from Congress amid harassment allegations

by Corey Williams Associated Press, and Richard Lardner Associated PressDecember 5, 2017