The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class action complaint with a federal employment board, asking them to review the firings of employees who worked on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) efforts. The filing notes that two orders signed by President Trump stretched back to Election Day, targeting employees who worked on DEIA issues...
Presented by National Council on Aging {beacon} Tensions grow as breach consumes Washington SIMMERING TENSIONS threatened to boil over Wednesday as Washington was consumed for a third day by revelations that President Trump’s national security team had inadvertently given a journalist access to a chat group discussion about a planned bombing in Yemen. The...
Richard Grenell, the Kennedy Center's interim executive director appointed by President Trump following an unprecedented overhaul, says diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs are among the "common sense" cuts being made at the performing arts hub. "What my management is doing for the Kennedy Center is going through every department, questioning the number of people...
Retired Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson on Wednesday said President Trump needs to hold Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accountable for the Signal group chat in which sensitive military information about a strike on the Houthi group in Yemen was discussed. Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic editor in chief, was inadvertently included in the chat, which also included...
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) holds a wide lead over the rest of the field in both the Democratic primary and a hypothetical general election in the New York City mayoral race, a new poll has found. The Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey showed Cuomo in front with 38 percent support, with New...
The Trump administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, a global program that purchases shots to help vaccinate children in developing countries against some of the world’s deadliest diseases. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate more than half of the world’s children. Since its launch in 2000, the program...
Democrats grilled Sean Donahue, President Trump’s pick as top lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on the agency’s attempts to terminate already issued climate grants during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked whether Donahue “had been a participant in meetings and discussions over trying to go after” the grant program....
The Pentagon's transgender troop ban is scheduled to take effect Friday after a federal judge asked the Defense Department to delay enactment beyond a March 26 deadline.
A federal appeals court issued a decision in a high-profile immigration case challenging the Trump administration's authority to deport Venezuelan nationals via a 1798 wartime law.