Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that White House budget director Russ Vought would oversee the “closeout” of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which came under intense scrutiny and has been dismantled by the Trump administration. “I joked with @POTUS that I had four jobs. He told me to give one to...
The Trump administration is weighing plans to use a Navy base near Chicago to support migrant detention efforts in the Windy City as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) crackdown on illegal immigration. DHS asked the Naval Station Great Lakes for “limited support in the form of facilities, infrastructure, and other logistical needs...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats face a critical choice on how much to work with Republicans on government funding when Congress returns next week - with a government shutdown and anger from their voters hanging in the balance. Senate Democrats took a beating from the base during the last funding showdown in...
By now it is clear that Netanyahu and Hamas are equally cynical and equally prepared to go on fighting, whatever additional human tragedies this war will continue to create.
A group of top leaders who resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this week cast blame for their decision on the environment created by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump. “I think the CDC really is a place filled with great scientists and...
President Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are facing pressure over the Trump administration's decision to shakeup leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After four senior leaders resigned in the wake of CDC Director Susan Monarez's ouster, critics question what the move means for vaccine...
The issue of selective prosecution has been raised by some critics who have accused the Justice Department of showing favoritism to friends or associates of President Trump and investigating Trump’s enemies.
In 2017, there was a movement called "Me Too." It was about taking women seriously when we complained about being sexually harassed or abused by men. Eight years later, that has all gone out the window. Women are in fact being forced to share intimate spaces like changing rooms and locker rooms with men who claim...
A man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in Washington, D.C, amid President Trump’s city takeover has been charged with misdemeanor assault. Sean Dunn, a Department of Justice (DOJ) employee at the time of the incident, was charged Wednesday with one count of "assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees," according to...
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from removing Voice of America's (VOA) agency director Michael Abramowitz from his post. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake, President Trump’s top advisor to the U.S Agency for Global Media, cannot fire Abramowitz, who was told he would be "subject to termination" starting Aug....
