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Thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development workers who've been fired or placed on leave as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency are being given a brief window Thursday and Friday to clear out their workspaces.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is visiting the White House to try to convince President Donald Trump that peace in Ukraine will endure only if Kyiv and European leaders are at the negotiating table along with Moscow.
Building lethality in the military may be the buzzword for the new Trump administration, but busywork and paperwork have become the reality at the Pentagon, as service members and civilian workers are facing a broad mandate to purge all of the department’s social media sites and untangle confusing personnel reduction moves.
President Donald Trump's administration has given New York until March 21 to comply with its order to halt Manhattan’s new congestion pricing system.
Authorities say a Tennessee man has been charged with an act of terrorism after he threatened to burn down an xAI facility because he was upset with its founder, Elon Musk, and President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move.
Now that House Republicans have passed an ambitious budget blueprint for President Donald Trump’s agenda, it is time for hard work.
A planned meeting between European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has abruptly canceled due to “scheduling issues.”.
A preliminary economic agreement between Ukraine and the United States would ensure long-term U.S. involvement in rebuilding the country, but the deal leaves the question of security guarantees sought by Kyiv to future negotiations.
Immigration officials are saying that anyone living in the U.S. illegally will soon have to register with the federal government, and those who fail to do so could face fines, imprisonment or both.
President Donald Trump says he plans to offer a “gold card” visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors.
The Supreme Court seems likely to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment because she is straight.
One of the few remaining Republicans in Congress to openly clash with President Donald Trump has a book out this summer.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he pulled out of a mayoral candidate forum after his lawyer told him to wait until a federal judge decides how to handle the corruption case.
With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans have sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage, a step toward delivering Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”.
Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations have gathered in South Africa for a two-day meeting.
A Montana man has been sentenced to four years of probation for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Republican U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds announced Tuesday that he’s entering the 2026 race to succeed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is ineligible to seek another term after eight years in office.
President Donald Trump says he plans to offer a “gold card” visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors.
A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate “race-based” practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money.
President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of any security clearances held by lawyers at a prominent Washington law firm who provided legal services to special counsel Jack Smith.
The acting administrator of the organization that is pushing for sweeping budget cuts across federal agencies is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.
President Donald Trump is directing the government to consider potential tariffs on copper, the latest move by the White House to tax a wide array of imports and reshape global trade.
Award-winning singe-musician Rhiannon Giddens has become the latest artist to call off an appearance at the Kennedy Center, which has been in upheaval since President Donald Trump took office.
A federal judge has agreed to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars.
The turmoil that enveloped the federal workforce over the last few days is unlikely to cease anytime soon.
The aspirations of Florida’s first lady Casey DeSantis have long been a topic of discussion in Tallahassee.
Trooper, the Florida dog abandoned during Hurricane Milton evacuations and rescued by Florida Highway Patrol troopers, is the inspiration behind a Senate Bill making its way through the Florida Legislature.
House Republicans have muscled their budget blueprint to passage, with a push from President Donald Trump.
The career change for Florida’s former lieutenant governor was sudden, and to most, surprising.
As a popular right-wing podcaster, President Donald Trump's new deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, has made many public comments about the agency he's about to help lead.
As they mustered support for their confirmations by the U.S. Senate, some of Donald Trump’s nominees made statements from which they’ve already distanced themselves upon taking office.
Republican Senate candidate Daniel Cameron has lavished praise on President Donald Trump and criticized his mentor, Sen. Mitch McConnell.
As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approaches the end of his term in office, he is talking up one potential heir to succeed him in 2026: his wife, Casey DeSantis.
A federal judge on Monday blocked immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations in houses of worship for Quakers and a handful of other religious groups.
Conservatives who filled a ballroom a few blocks from the White House have lamented that the United States is abandoning the fundamental ideals that forged a great nation.
New FBI Director Kash Patel was sworn in Monday as acting chief of the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, taking the helm of two separate and sprawling Justice Department agencies, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Apple announced Monday that it plans to invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including plans to hire 20,000 people and build a new server factory in Texas.
The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and oil tankers across China, the United Arab Emirates, India and other jurisdictions for allegedly helping to finance Iran and its support for militant groups that launch attacks against the U.S. and its allies.
Elon Musk is vowing yet again to fire any federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished last week.
A group of young engineers is playing a vital role in billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy through his Department of Government Efficiency.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal of three years of American policy toward Ukraine has raised concerns China might become emboldened to push its territorial claim on Taiwan, though experts say Beijing is most likely in a wait-and-see mode right now to see how the situation in Europe plays out.
President Donald Trump is backing Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments or risk getting fired.
President Donald Trump’s real-time confrontation with Maine’s governor over transgender athletes captured the conundrum many Democratic governors are facing in the Republican’s second term.
On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg was joined by Florida Immigrant Coalition Executive Director Tessa Petit, Florida State Representatives Christine Hunschofsky and Vicki Lopez, and WLRN Senior Economics Editor Tom Hudson.
Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or risk losing their job.
A week out from the next legislative session in Tallahassee, 350-plus bills were filed in the house and senate involving your home, insurance, taxes, gun rights and more.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending President Donald Trump’s firing of the nation’s senior military officer and a wave of top dismissals at the Pentagon, insisting that they weren’t unusual despite accusations that the new administration is injecting politics into the military.
President Donald Trump’s week included rewriting U.S. policy toward Russia and firing the country's senior military officer.
When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.
Republican lawmakers in some states are threatening local officials with lawsuits, fines and jail time if they resist President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
An Ohio law designating school bathrooms for use by people based on their sex at birth kicks in soon.
President Donald Trump says “nobody has ever seen anything” like his administration’s sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees and shrink the size of government.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has made the case for Manhattan’s congestion tolling during an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump.
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.
Yosemite National Park employees who recently were fired by the U.S. government worry cuts will affect the experience of visitors and the welfare of wildlife that thrive in the popular vacation destination located in California’s Sierra Nevada.
Michigan Republicans have elected a state lawmaker to lead the GOP into the 2026 midterms, State Sen. Jim Runestad whipped enough delegates Saturday after two rounds of voting to beat out the other two candidates, including Meshawn Maddock, a loyal ally to President Donald Trump who is charged with being a fake elector for Trump in the 2020 election.
A federal judge in Manhattan has extended a ban on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing sensitive Treasury Department information, but rejected broader restrictions sought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general who sued over the issue.
A federal judge has largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
New FBI Director Kash Patel has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees at FBI headquarters to field offices around the country and move an additional 500 to a bureau facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
The Justice Department has filed a complaint accusing a federal judge in Washington of misconduct during hearings over President Donald Trump’s executive order that calls for banning transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military.
President Donald Trump says he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would amount to an executive branch takeover of the independent agency.
Days after telling legal groups who help migrant children who arrive in America alone — some so young they are in diapers or their feet dangle from their chairs in court — that they must stop their work, the federal government reversed itself.
Republican state attorneys general have declared their continued support for a landmark civil rights law that protects disabled people’s rights.
The top official in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda has been reassigned amid concerns that the deportation effort isn’t moving quickly enough.
Job searches can be tough for anyone, but some of the federal workers flooding the market after widespread layoffs are finding it particularly tough.
Six weeks after devastating wildfires, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief amid a public rift over preparations for the fires and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall.
The Trump administration’s proposal to layoff half of federal workers at the nation’s housing agency is targeting employees who support disaster recovery, rental subsidies, discrimination investigations and first-time homebuyers, according to two documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Hours after the Senate approved a spending framework, President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview that he’s open to approving the spending plan in multiple bills “as long as we get to the same point.”.
Refugees had been arriving in the United States at levels unseen in nearly three decades, aided by nonprofits and ordinary people across the political spectrum.
The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the nearly all-night debate encompassed so much more.
The termination letters that ended the careers of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees mean fewer people and less resources will be available to help prevent and fight wildfires.
A federal judge is considering a request to further block President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars.
The scramble to fill Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat in Kentucky began as soon as the Republican revealed he won’t seek reelection in 2026.
Billionaire Elon Musk has created a buzz waving a chainsaw in the air at a conservative gathering outside Washington.
A federal judge says the Trump administration has kept withholding foreign aid despite a court order and must at least temporarily restore the funding to programs worldwide.
A federal judge is continuing to block the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding.
Experts say the layoffs of roughly 7,000 IRS probationary workers likely mean the end of the agency’s plans to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collections.
Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage over Democratic objections after a nearly all-night vote.
As President Donald Trump reshaped the Education Department, parents say investigations and mediations into kids' disability rights cases ground to a halt.
Dr. Mehmet Oz holds millions of dollars worth of shares in health insurance, fertility, pharmaceutical and vitamin companies.
