Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is defending massive layoffs at his department, saying front-line workers will be spared while he streamlines administrative functions.
Senate Democrats are planning to be more "aggressive" in pushing back against President Trump's and Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy, The Washington Times has learned.
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.
The CEO of National Public Radio, Katherine Maher, just testified before Congress amid a push to defund NPR and PBS. It’s hard to imagine how it could’ve gone worse for Maher. Rep. Brandon Gill, a Texas Republican, confronted the NPR executive with her own statements and completely destroyed her credibility in just a few minutes […]
More than 30 Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the latest high-profile arrest and detention of a foreign-born college student who had voiced support for the pro-Palestinian movement. In a Thursday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem...
Utah has become the first state in the nation to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed the legislation with little fanfare on Thursday, and it will take effect May 7. The push to ban fluoride comes as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has...
A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked enforcement of President Trump’s order to bar transgender troops from serving openly in the military, the second to halt the policy from taking effect nationwide. In a 65-page ruling, Judge Benjamin Hale Settle of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington said the Trump...
Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after she failed to disclose frog embryos she brought into the country. Petrova’s attorney is fighting for her release from a Louisiana detention center after Customs and Border Patrol stopped her at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 16 when...
President Trump on Friday spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for the first time since Carney was elected earlier in the month amid tensions between the two nations. “It was an extremely productive call, we agree on many things, and will be meeting immediately after Canada’s upcoming Election to work on elements of Politics,...
Noted economist Arthur Laffer warns that President Trump's proposed 25% tariff on foreign-made vehicle imports could lead to a dramatic increase in prices and threaten the U.S. auto industry.