President Trump moved on Monday to stack the boards overseeing U.S. military service academies with conservative activists and political allies, including Michael T. Flynn and […]
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DOGE Staff Marches Into U.S. Institute of Peace and Evicts Its Officials
A simmering dispute between the Department of Government Efficiency and an independent agency dedicated to promoting peace broke into an open standoff involving the police […]
Trump Pulls Secret Service Protection From Hunter and Ashley Biden
President Trump said on Monday evening that he was ending Secret Service protection for former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son Hunter and daughter Ashley. […]
Trump Administration Questions Law Firms Over DEI Employment Practices
President Trump’s acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Monday sent letters to 20 law firms requesting information about their diversity, equity and […]
A Judge Ordered Deportation Planes to Turn Around. The White House Didn’t Listen.
The federal judge’s ruling was clear: The Trump administration could not use an obscure wartime law from the 18th century to deport people without a […]
Trump Nominates Bryan Bedford, Longtime Airlines Executive, to Lead FAA
Bryan Bedford, a longtime airline industry executive, was tapped by President Trump on Monday to serve as the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Since […]
Making Sense of DOGE’s Cuts
Elon Musk has promised to take a chain saw to the federal government with his Department of Government Efficiency. It has been difficult, though, to […]
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Leader, Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Deportations
Shortly after the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador this weekend, the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, posted a three-minute video on social […]
Trump Says He’ll Release JFK Assassination Files on Tuesday
President Trump said on Monday his administration would release approximately 80,000 files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. […]
Texas Midwife Charged in Abortion Case
A midwife and an associate have been arrested and charged with illegally performing abortions in greater Houston, according to court records and the Texas attorney […]