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Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s attempt to shut down USAID

A federal judge said Friday he is putting at least a short-term stop to President Trump's plans to place thousands of employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave, dealing another legal setback to the new administration's attempt to reshape the government bureaucracy.

Trump orders government to determine where Biden-era directives encroached on gun rights

President Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing all federal agencies to determine if Biden administration directives infringed on Americans' gun rights.

Judge stops DOJ from releasing names of FBI agents who worked Jan. 6 cases

A federal judge Friday stopped the Justice Department from publicly listing FBI officials involved in cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Retired Navy captain says DOGE disruptions could improve efficiency, security

As Elon Musk's unofficial Department of Government Efficiency shakes up U.S. regulatory bodies and foreign aid organizations, one national security expert says the organization's efforts to streamline operations could make the U.S. safer and more effective.

Trump says he’ll announce reciprocal tariffs on more countries next week

President Trump on Friday said he'll lay out reciprocal tariffs on several countries next week as he seeks to escalate his trade war.

USAID gave $270 million to a Soros NGO, but it only needed $9 million to doom democracy in Albania

The Soros family’s foundations may have designed the Albanian kangaroo court that the country’s socialist prime minister has used to jail his political opponents, but the U.S. government has spent nearly a decade funding this destruction of democracy among our NATO ally. As we illustrate in the third chapter of the Washington Examiner’s exclusive documentary […]

‘Grow up’: Vance, Khanna spar over rehiring DOGE staffer

Vice President Vance and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) sparred on social media platform X over the proposed rehiring of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who resigned after his racist social media posts came to light.  Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE aide, had “read-only” access to sensitive Treasury Department payment systems. He resigned on...

Democratic AGs sue over DOGE access to Treasury payment systems

A coalition of 19 Democratic-led states sued the Trump administration Friday night over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)’s access to Treasury Department payment systems that dole out trillions of dollars in payments annually. The lawsuit, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and announced earlier in the week, is the latest legal resistance...

Trump wants to deregulate. Progressives should help him.

From Jimmy Carter to Ted Kennedy, progressives once saw the wisdom of cutting red tape — especially if the tape tied the hands of consumers and would-be competitors in order to privilege industry insiders.

Transgender Americans sue over Trump passport policy

Seven transgender or non-binary Americans sued the Trump administration Friday over its new policy preventing people from obtaining passports with sex designations that match their gender identities. The transgender Americans, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), claim the policy runs afoul of constitutional protections against sex discrimination and violates their rights to privacy...

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