A federal judge on Thursday extended the deadline for federal workers to accept the Trump administration’s sweeping buyout offer. The court will weigh the merits of the bid to block the offer in a Monday hearing. The move comes as the government had set a Thursday deadline for federal workers to determine whether they wanted...
House Democratic leaders are set to hold a press conference Thursday afternoon as criticism mounts over President Trump's efforts to overhaul the federal government. Democrats have recently pushed back against Trump's moves to reform immigration policy and the military, proposals to annex other regions — including Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal and most recently Gaza...
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a memo Wednesday that the Justice Department will reverse a Biden-era directive to prioritize enforcement of environmental laws in disadvantaged and low-income communities. Bondi’s predecessor, Merrick Garland, issued guidance in 2022 directing the department to enforce environmental laws with emphasis on communities that have historically been underserved by...
President Trump’s Justice Department sued the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and local officials Thursday over laws creating a so-called “sanctuary city.” Accusing the officials of impeding federal immigration enforcement efforts, the Justice Department asked a judge to declare the state and local measures unconstitutional because of the federal government’s supremacy. “The challenged...
House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to the acting Education secretary Thursday demanding answers around potential executive orders from the president to weaken the Department of Education. “Over the course of two weeks, the Trump Administration issued sweeping executive orders and sought to broadly and illegally freeze federal financial assistance. Federal employees have been...
Congress needs to reassert its authority and do its constitutionally mandated job by stopping the Trump administration from mindlessly cutting foreign aid.
Amber Ruffin, the just-announced headliner for this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, says "no one" wants President Trump to attend the high-profile event. "No one wants that," the comedian and "Have I Got News for You" personality said when asked in a Wednesday interview with CNN's Jake Tapper if she wanted Trump to take part in...
Israel is preparing for a mass departure of Palestinian residents from Gaza after President Trump floated a proposal for the U.S. to take control of the strip currently under Hamas control. The Israeli military has been directed to be ready for Palestinians’ exiting via land crossings and “special arrangements for exit by sea and air,”...
President Trump on Thursday doubled down on his proposal for the U.S. to take control of the Gaza Strip and rebuild it, despite pushback from Arab leaders and some Republicans, arguing it would not require American troops. The president in an early Thursday post on Truth Social expanded on his idea first laid out Tuesday,...
