WASHINGTON -The Trump administration will offer a $1,000 stipend and travel assistance to migrants who elect to voluntarily “self deport” from the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday. The stipend and potential airfare for migrants who voluntarily…

WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump “shows an openness” to work requirements for Medicaid, Jason Smith, chair of the House of Representative Ways and Means Committee, said on Fox News Sunday. Congressional Republicans are weighing steep cuts to Medicaid, which provides…

WASHINGTON – More than 15,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture employees have taken one of the Trump administration’s two financial incentive offers to leave the agency, according to a readout from a USDA briefing with congressional staff seen by Reuters. The…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in its bid to strip temporary protected status for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants, a move that would clear the way for their deportation. The…

WASHINGTON -Charles Kushner, the father of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, told U.S. senators on Thursday he could be trusted to exercise good judgment if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to France, despite his past conviction for tax evasion and…

WASHINGTON-El Salvador is only detaining an El Salvadoran man mistakenly deported from Maryland because the country is receiving U.S. payments, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen said in a letter to the White House on Tuesday. Van Hollen, a Democrat from…

Democratic-led states on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration had effectively dismantled AmeriCorps by abruptly canceling grants and cutting 85% of the workforce of the federal agency for national service and volunteering. In a lawsuit filed in federal…

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed billionaire investment banker Warren Stephens to be ambassador to Britain, backing President Donald Trump’s nominee by 59 to 39. Stephens is chairman, president, and CEO of Stephens Inc., a privately owned financial services…

WASHINGTON -U.S. lawmakers have asked the State Department to brief them about Russia’s use of Chinese fighters in its war in Ukraine, saying in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday that Moscow could only employ Chinese…

WASHINGTON -When the U.S. Supreme Court rules on President Donald Trump’s effort to remove two federal labor board members, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will be watching for clues about his own job security. The court fight over Trump’s firings…

WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion of congressionally approved funding, the top Democrats on the U.S. Congress’ appropriation committees said on Tuesday. The frozen allotments span the federal government, according to the…

A coalition of more than two dozen labor unions, cities and nonprofits sued President Donald Trump’s administration, claiming that its broad federal workforce cuts were an illegal power grab. The complaint filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court said…

WASHINGTON -As billionaire Elon Musk scales back work for U.S. President Donald Trump, he’s laying the groundwork for a major role as a Republican political megadonor in next year’s midterm elections, according to four people with direct knowledge of the…

WASHINGTON – A pair of Democratic officials recently fired from a credit union watchdog have sued U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior government officials, alleging that their removal was “patently unlawful.” Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka filed the suit…

WASHINGTON – Seven Democratic senators are asking the U.S. Justice Department for information about changes to its civil rights division made by President Donald Trump’s administration including reassigning several career officials who had held leadership positions. The senators, all members…

NEW YORK -A federal judge ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday to halt its efforts to shut down government-funded radio broadcasts of Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth,…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed on Wednesday an order to improve job training for skilled trades, an initiative twinned with tariffs in his gambit to revive U.S. manufacturing. The Labor, Education and Commerce departments will focus on job needs…

WASHINGTON -In his latest step pressuring U.S. universities, President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an order intended to toughen standards for college accreditation, a requirement for accessing billions of dollars in federal student financial aid. The order was one of…

BEIJING -When 25-year-old biology student Yao’s PhD program enrollment was deferred due to funding cuts at her U.S. university, she joined a growing list of Chinese students exploring other destinations. Visa revocations and university funding cuts by the administration of…

A federal judge in Colorado directed President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday to give Venezuelan migrants detained in that state notice 21 days in advance before any deportations under a law historically used only in wartime, and to inform them…

Venezuelan migrants will seek to bolster their protections against deportation under a wartime law this week, after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of migrants with an emergency ruling over the weekend. At a…

WASHINGTON -U.S. non-profit organizations that focus on climate change are getting ready to fight a possible move by the Trump administration to revoke their tax exemptions as soon as this week. Groups that work on climate change have been circulating…

NEW YORK -When Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015, cheering crowds of Catholics and non-Catholics turned out in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia to greet him, lifting hopes that the U.S. church was about to enter a new,…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody after their lawyers said they faced imminent removal without the judicial review that the justices previously ordered. “The Government…

Two Venezuelan men detained in Texas were told by a U.S. official that they will be deported imminently under an 18th century American wartime law, lawyers for some Venezuelan migrants told a U.S. federal court on Friday. In a court…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear arguments next month over Donald Trump’s bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, a key pillar of the Republican president’s hardline approach toward…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the federal government will soon be sending education “back to the states” while congratulating lawmakers in Texas for approving a private school voucher program. “We will very soon be sending Education BACK…

WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump’s administration will ask a U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday to pause a judge’s ruling lifting access restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press for referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage….

Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal funding for some of his projects frozen this week as his university clashed with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. While Trump and his advisers…