Singer Madonna criticized President Trump on Friday for a recent post online in which he appeared to call himself a "king." "I thought this country was built by Europeans, escaping living under the rule of a King, to establish a New World governed by the people," she wrote on social platform X. "Currently we have...
The leader of a far-right political party in France said he would not address as planned the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) after Steve Bannon, a close ally to President Trump, appeared to give a Nazi salute at the forum Thursday. "I had been invited … to make a speech on the links between the...
When President Trump and Elon Mask brought the shutters down on USAID, I was reminded of things I had seen and heard in Uganda last month while conducting development research there — things that should make us rethink stereotypes about foreign aid and its effectiveness.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian employees as the Trump administration’s axe to the federal workforce reaches the Defense Department (DOD). Hegseth said the government’s largest agency was doing a “reevaluation of our probationary workforce” in compliance with President Trump’s Jan....
A majority of Americans are displeased with President Trump over his decision to pardon nearly all of those charged for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to a poll. The Washington Post/Ipsos survey, released Thursday, found that 83 percent of respondents were opposed to Trump’s offer of clemency for...
President Trump and Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills briefly quarreled Friday at a National Governors Association session at the White House after Trump told a meeting of Republican governors he would withhold federal funding from the state over its refusal to comply with an executive order on transgender athletes. In remarks Friday afternoon, Trump repeated the...
Assistant to the President and Special Presidential Envoy for Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "courageous leader" not long after Trump blasted the foreign official
President Donald Trump sparred with Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Friday over compliance with an executive order about transgender women in sports.