The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of ...

But if he so chooses, Donald Trump, himself a convicted felon, can bypass background checks for those ... process and to vet nominees for security clearance. Criminal histories, conflicts of ...