WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information. Defense Department personnel could face polygraphs in…
Nearly 9,000 fatalities confirmed worldwide, but real toll likely much higher.Nearly 9,000 people died last year trying to cross borders, the United Nations agency for…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of…
WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an…
WASHINGTON — In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures — which will require millions of recipients and applicants…
WASHINGTON — A senior official at Elon Musk’s White House advisory team is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, giving Musk’s so-called…
President Trump this week continued to make his environmental priorities clear by vowing to open up hundreds of coal power plants in the United States…
A United National agency has expressed great concern over the spread of the H5N1 bird flu and its spillover into other mammals, including cows. Photo…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace — an independent nonprofit organization established and funded by Congress that…
President Trump’s administration Saturday began making deep cuts to Voice of America and other government-run, pro-democracy programming as the president continued his campaign to restructure…
WASHINGTON — President Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat of a partial government shutdown and capping…
In February, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency put the nation’s public radio network on notice. “Defund NPR,” he wrote on X. “It…
California on Thursday joined Democratic-led states in suing the Trump administration, seeking to halt massive layoffs at the federal Department of Education, alleging the cuts…
WASHINGTON — President Trump has said he wants his new education chief, Linda McMahon, to “put herself out of a job.”Since Trump took office, staffing at the…
Zack Baun’s last name rhymes with yawn, and that was pretty much the reaction a year ago when the Philadelphia Eagles signed him as a…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency,…
NewsFeedThe UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini addressed a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Gaza’s hunger crisis following Israel’s decision to ban UNRWA and stop all…
WASHINGTON — Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human…
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the…
An appeals court Wednesday ruled the Trump administration can remove Office of Special Counsel head Hampton Dellinger. Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Justice/Website March…