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WASHINGTON -A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. EPA, the Interior and Energy Departments and other agencies unlawfully froze funds under Democrats’ climate and infrastructure spending laws, Politico reported. The judge ordered the agencies to immediately resume disbursing…
Democratic former President Joe Biden on Tuesday made his first major speech since leaving the White House in January, defending the Social Security Administration as the Trump administration cuts agency staff and shutters some of its offices. Biden’s speech in…
WASHINGTON – More than 22,000 employees at the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service have accepted the Trump administration’s latest buyout offer, two agency sources said on Tuesday. The move this month, called a deferred resignation program, offers workers full pay and…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it has charged a man it suspected of carrying out two recent arson attacks against the New Mexico Republican Party’s headquarters and a Tesla dealership in the state. The criminal complaint, dated…
A legal advocacy group on Monday asked the U.S. Court of International Trade to block President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners, arguing that the president overstepped his authority. The lawsuit was filed by the Liberty Justice Center,…
A federal judge in Vermont questioned on Monday whether the Trump administration would instigate a “constitutional crisis” by not releasing a Turkish student at Tufts University from immigration custody if he concluded her arrest was unlawful. U.S. District Judge William…
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to halve the State Department budget, cutting more than $30 billion, in fiscal 2026, four U.S. officials familiar with the plan said on Monday – a massive reduction that could see nearly…
Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a public letter on Monday that Harvard had received demands from the federal Department of Education that threaten “our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.” “No…
President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday asked a federal court to throw out a regulation capping credit card late fees at $8, saying it agreed with business and banking groups that alleged in a lawsuit that the rule was illegal….
The U.S. Department of Education said on Monday it was freezing about $2.3 billion in federal funds to Harvard University over the school’s decision to fight White House demands, including that it shut down diversity, equity and inclusion programs. “Harvard’s…
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Sunday said the governor’s residence was set on fire overnight by an arsonist, prompting his family’s evacuation. “Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the…
WASHINGTON – White House trade adviser Peter Navarro brushed off insults from Elon Musk on Sunday, saying “Elon and I are great” after a public spat over President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs. Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and close…
WASHINGTON -As U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration cracks down on immigration, its officials have repeatedly publicly identified detainees as gang leaders or even terrorists, without attempting to back those inflammatory claims up in court. After an FBI SWAT team on…
MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S. President Donald Trump’s team were moving ahead very well but that it was too early to expect instant results due to the level of damage done to relations under Trump’s…
BOSTON – Harvard University professors are suing to block the Trump administration’s review of nearly $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to the Ivy League school as part of a crackdown on what it says is antisemitism on…
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration was hit with another lawsuit on Friday over his executive orders sanctioning prominent law firms, even as five other firms offered costly concessions to avoid the president’s crackdowns. Susman Godfrey filed the lawsuit in…
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Friday that more than 60,000 ballots cast in November by voters in a close race for a seat on the state’s high court could be counted, but it left open the possibility of…
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – President Donald Trump, when asked about a Salvadoran man deported from the United States in error, on Friday told reporters that he would follow what the Supreme Court said, a day after the top court…
President Donald Trump’s administration cannot cut off Maine’s federal school lunch funding over the state’s refusal to ban transgender women from sports, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge John Woodcock Jr. did not weigh in on the…
GREENBELT, Maryland -A U.S. federal judge said on Friday it was “extremely troubling” that the Trump administration failed to comply with her court order to provide details on the status of a Maryland resident it illegally deported to El Salvador….
A U.S. judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to go ahead with a plan to make immigrants illegally living in or entering the United States register with the federal government or face fines or imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Trevor…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador. The court’s decision came…
U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is looking for ways to cut staffing by an additional 20% as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters earlier in…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Mexico with sanctions and tariffs in a dispute over water sharing between the two countries, accusing Mexico of breaking an 81-year-old treaty and “stealing the water from Texas Farmers.” Under the 1944 treaty,…
WASHINGTON -The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee on Thursday said he suspected a task force formed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was pursuing a “witch hunt” for intelligence officers it deems disloyal to President Donald…
WASHINGTON -Tech billionaire Elon Musk, tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump with cutting the federal government, said he anticipates saving $150 billion for fiscal year 2026 from a “reduction of waste and fraud.”
JENA, Louisiana -A U.S. immigration judge will rule on Friday whether the government can deport Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a month after he was arrested at his Columbia University apartment building and transferred to a Louisiana jail. Last month,…
A federal judge on Friday refused to limit the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement activities in places of worship, ruling against a group of 27 religious organizations that had sued the administration over its decision to drop a previous policy against…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military has fired the commander of a U.S. Space Force base in Greenland following a visit there by Vice President JD Vance and said it would not tolerate actions that “subvert” President Donald Trump’s agenda. The…
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON – Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump in the…