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Sen. Todd Young needed to vent, and a former colleague was ready to listen.One of the key swing votes on President Donald Trump’s troubled nomination for dir...
ALBANY, New York — New York Democrats are poised to delay until November the special election to fill Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat — a move that would de...
The National Institutes of Health late Friday dramatically slashed grants to support research institutions, in a move that could send shockwaves through Amer...
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The Trump administration announced a $7 billion arms sale to Israel, including munitions and missiles, just days after Congress blocked an initial deal.
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Pete Marocco was furious.It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered that the U.S. Agency for International Development re...
The frail condition of the latest three Israeli hostages released by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday as part of the fragile three-weeks-old ceas...
A federal judge on Friday night rejected labor unions’ push to block Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing sensitive data at the Labor Depart...
President Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Archives, after complaining for nearly two years about the agency’s role in the Justice Department’...
Elon Musk has found his next target: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.Musk’s team on Friday entered the headquarters of the CFPB, an agency that the ...
President Donald Trump’s administration is creating an exemption for an estimated 200,000 workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs who won’t be eligible...
NEW YORK — Democratic state attorneys general continued their legal resistance to President Donald Trump’s early policies Friday, filing a new lawsuit accusi...
Federal employee unions tried Friday to protect an expanding number of government agencies from Elon Musk’s attempts to obtain sensitive data and cut personn...
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday approved $50 million for legal defenses against the Trump administration, following a special legislative session he called soon ...
House Republicans are still far from finalizing several key details of a budget blueprint that Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to advance in the House next ...
President Donald Trump said Friday that he would be removing multiple people from the board of trustees for The Kennedy Center — and that he would be assumin...
More than a dozen House Democrats descended on the Education Department on Friday demanding to meet with acting Education Secretary Denise Carter amid Presi...
President Donald Trump offered to find a middle ground to resolve the impasse over Japan’s Nippon Steel push to acquire U.S. Steel following a meeting on Fri...
Artists embarrassed Donald Trump when he first came to Washington. Now that Trump is back in power, he is determined not to let that happen again.Trump plans...
Representative Ro Khanna has known Elon Musk for more than a decade, so he thought he should raise some concerns about the billionaire’s assault on the feder...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Friday that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency staffers do not have access to secretive information about ...
