The Department of Justice (DOJ) has appealed a federal judge's order indefinitely blocking President Trump's executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship. In a short notice Thursday night, the government said it would appeal the nationwide preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge John Coughenour granted earlier Thursday at the request of four Democratic state attorneys general...
Unions representing government employees sued the Trump administration Thursday evening to block efforts to shut down the government’s independent foreign assistance agency. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) launched a full-scale assault on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) over the weekend, shutting staff out of internal systems and placing thousands on administrative...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, President Trump's envoy for special missions Richard Grenell and other federal and state officials joined Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) in their visit to the Palisades to evaluate fire recovery and debris removal efforts. The EPA, as part of the debris removal process, has been removing hazardous...
Senate Republicans on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Budget and Management (OMB), in the face of mounting Democratic attacks over his ties to Project 2025 and the president’s efforts targeting funding already approved by Congress. The Senate voted 53-47 along party lines to confirm Vought on Thursday night....
Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) lauded the creation of the Congressional Jewish Caucus in a Thursday press release outlining an official forum for Jewish lawmakers. “In response to unprecedented rising antisemitism in the United States and the challenges the American Jewish community has faced in the wake of the horrific terrorist...
The government's foremost foreign aid agency is being gutted. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workforce is being slashed from more than 10,000 employees to fewer than 300, according to reports published in Wired, Reuters, The New York Times and NPR. The State Department declined to comment. Neither USAID nor the White House immediately...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday doubled down on her opposition to the presidential immunity decision last summer and expressed concern about public confidence in the high court. In her first public remarks since President Trump took office about two weeks ago, Sotomayor said she worried that the Supreme Court has departed too far...
President Trump on Thursday issued an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its pursuit of war crimes cases against Israel’s leader and its former defense minister. In the order, Trump accused the ICC of engaging in “illegitimate and baseless actions” against Israel and the U.S. “Neither country has ever recognized the ICC's...
Users who search for abortion information on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website are now directed to try searching for the word adoption. The change comes less than a week after over a dozen federal agency websites — including the CDC — went offline. Some of the CDC’s webpages have since...
The Elon Musk deputy who accessed sensitive Treasury Department payment systems has resigned after social media posts of his came to light that espoused racist beliefs. Twenty-five-year-old Marko Elez, who worked for a number of companies run by Elon Musk and was part of the billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force engaged in...
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