President Trump has taken a cleaver to the federal bureaucracy over the last week, sparing almost no part of the government as agencies fired thousands of recently hired employees that his administration says it can do without.
Top Trump administration officials on Sunday defended their upcoming direct talks with Moscow over ending the Russia-Ukraine war, even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that he will "never accept" a deal negotiated without Kyiv present at the table.
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, according to documents obtained Sunday that would mark the first appeal to the justices since President Donald Trump took office.
President Trump traveled Sunday to the Daytona 500, the most significant event on the NASCAR calendar, to celebrate the iconic race and the nation's renewed "spirit."
American Sagui Dekel Chen is “home and safe” with his family, one day after he was released by Hamas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Sunday. Chen was among the three men released in Khan Younis on Saturday in the latest victory for the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Hamas also released Israeli Argentinian Iair...
Senate Democrats are split over how to push back against President Trump’s attempts to slash the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an embattled front line in the larger fight against the administration’s effort to overhaul the federal government. On one side are Democrats trying to enlist Republican allies, who have historically been staunch supporters...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) says he thinks people need to “trust the process” in President Trump’s peace talks with Russian and Ukrainian leaders. “Right now, people are dying every single day. We do know we have the best negotiator possible in the White House,” Mullin said Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week.” “I mean, literally,...
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said in an interview Sunday that the Trump administration has recently given a "mixed message" on Ukraine. “Well, I think it was a mixed [message] coming from the administration,” Shaheen told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” "On the one hand, you heard Secretary Hegseth saying they were gonna...
The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to greenlight President Trump’s firing of the head of a federal whistleblower protection office, marking the new Trump administration’s first appeal to the high court. Lower courts issued rulings temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger, whom former President Biden nominated to lead the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), in his...
President Trump's proposal to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund is flawed, as it would not generate new wealth and would likely rely on government debt, opening the door to political interference in capital markets.