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WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will seek to get major U.S. law firms to do free legal work to support his trade team’s negotiations with other countries after four firms in recent weeks agreed to donate…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has brought on several staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to an email sent to regulatory staff Thursday. The regulator, which monitors banks and backstops deposits via its insurance…
WASHINGTON – Minutes after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on a tariff plan that triggered a stock market rout and global upheaval, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent strode out of the White House to explain the abrupt turnabout….
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated. One of Trump’s directives named Christopher Krebs,…
BOSTON – A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday from revoking the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston issued…
Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting campaign at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission raises concern about exposure of confidential corporate data, say two Democratic commissioners at the agency who were fired last month by President Donald Trump. Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya…
U.S. President Donald Trump has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white…
The Trump administration is calling on states to request waivers that would bar food stamp recipients from buying soda and other processed foods with their benefits, according to a Thursday op-ed by U.S. health and agriculture secretaries, Robert F. Kennedy…
BOSTON -When Zaya Perysian received her new passport in the mail in late January, she knew exactly who to blame for why it listed her, a transgender woman, as male: U.S. President Donald Trump. First the California social media influencer…
WASHINGTON – Billionaire Elon Musk said at a White House cabinet meeting on Thursday he expects $150 billion in savings in FY2026 from the work done by the Department of Government Efficiency. In March, Musk had said he was confident…
President Donald Trump should reinstate two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and use the agency to help consumers, 55 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives said in a letter to the White House on Thursday….
GUAYAQUIL/QUITO – The two candidates battling it out to win Ecuador’s presidency in this Sunday’s run-off have focused their energies on the populous coastal provinces, where voters are pleading for action to tackle spiraling drug-related violence. Incumbent President Daniel Noboa…
WASHINGTON -U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday that the government will seek to deport a man she previously called a leader of the MS-13 gang in the U.S., after prosecutors moved to drop a gun charge against him….
Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to curtail the ability of judges to issue nationwide injunctions blocking government policies after key parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda have been stymied by such court rulings. The House voted 219-213…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Paul Atkins as President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Securities and Exchange Commission, installing the business-friendly lawyer atop an agency in the throes of major change. In a largely party line vote,…
The U.S. Social Security Administration abandoned plans to end phone services for retirees that would have started on Monday, following a growing outcry from advocates who warned that the changes could cause chaos and further strain the agency. The agency,…
WASHINGTON – The top U.S. spy’s chief of staff on Wednesday said the U.S. intelligence community is investigating whether the FBI was involved in planning the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump. “We’re…
Around 4,000 U.S. Transportation Department have applied to take a new buyout offer to leave government service in exchange for pay and benefits through Sept. 30, a department official told Reuters on Thursday.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Ronald Johnson, a former CIA officer and ambassador to El Salvador, as ambassador to Mexico, amid ties strained by President Donald Trump’s tariff policy and talk he might send in troops to…
WASHINGTON – A majority of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday backed Pete Hoekstra, a former ambassador to the Netherlands, to be ambassador to Canada, a position he would assume as traditional close ties have been strained by President Donald Trump’s…
WASHINGTON -U.S. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has put a hold on President Donald Trump’s appointee for the U.S. cybersecurity agency, citing what the Oregon senator called a “multi-year cover-up” of serious vulnerabilities in the U.S. telecommunications network. In remarks released…
WASHINGTON -Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let him remove Democratic members from two federal labor boards while legal fights over the Republican president’s dismissals of them play out. The Justice Department made the request…
CHICAGO -U.S. pediatricians and infectious disease experts say the fight against rising measles cases nationwide is being hampered by a lack of forceful advocacy for vaccination from government health officials and statements on unproven treatments that are confusing parents. Since…
WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump’s White House intends to challenge a judge’s ruling lifting the restrictions it imposed on the Associated Press over the news agency’s reference to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage, the administration told the court on…
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he authorized a 90-day pause as part of his tariff plan but was also raising the tariff rate for China to 125%, effective immediately.
A U.S. appeals court cleared the way on Wednesday for 18 federal agencies to once again fire thousands of employees who lost their jobs as part of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal workforce but were later reinstated by…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday backed former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be ambassador to Israel, installing a staunch pro-Israel conservative in the high-profile post amid war in Gaza and relations complicated by U.S. tariffs. The Senate backed Huckabee…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted 16-12, largely along party lines on Wednesday, to advance the Trump administration’s nominee to oversee a $42-billion government fund to bring high-speed broadband internet to unserved parts of the U.S. Arielle Roth, who…
WASHINGTON – The administration of President Donald Trump on Tuesday moved to reinstate at least six recently canceled U.S. foreign aid programs, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. USAID Acting Administrator Jeremy Lewin, who is also an employee…
The U.S. Commerce Department on Tuesday ended about $4 million in funding to Princeton University for assessing climate-related risks, saying those programs were not aligned with the Trump administration’s priorities. The decision was taken after a review of financial assistance…