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The U.S. Department of Education said on Monday it was freezing about $2.3 billion in federal funds to Harvard University over the school’s decision to fight White House demands, including that it shut down diversity, equity and inclusion programs. “Harvard’s…
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Sunday said the governor’s residence was set on fire overnight by an arsonist, prompting his family’s evacuation. “Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the…
WASHINGTON – White House trade adviser Peter Navarro brushed off insults from Elon Musk on Sunday, saying “Elon and I are great” after a public spat over President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs. Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and close…
WASHINGTON -As U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration cracks down on immigration, its officials have repeatedly publicly identified detainees as gang leaders or even terrorists, without attempting to back those inflammatory claims up in court. After an FBI SWAT team on…
MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S. President Donald Trump’s team were moving ahead very well but that it was too early to expect instant results due to the level of damage done to relations under Trump’s…
BOSTON – Harvard University professors are suing to block the Trump administration’s review of nearly $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to the Ivy League school as part of a crackdown on what it says is antisemitism on…
WASHINGTONÂ -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration was hit with another lawsuit on Friday over his executive orders sanctioning prominent law firms, even as five other firms offered costly concessions to avoid the president’s crackdowns. Susman Godfrey filed the lawsuit in…
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Friday that more than 60,000 ballots cast in November by voters in a close race for a seat on the state’s high court could be counted, but it left open the possibility of…
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – President Donald Trump, when asked about a Salvadoran man deported from the United States in error, on Friday told reporters that he would follow what the Supreme Court said, a day after the top court…
President Donald Trump’s administration cannot cut off Maine’s federal school lunch funding over the state’s refusal to ban transgender women from sports, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge John Woodcock Jr. did not weigh in on the…
GREENBELT, Maryland -A U.S. federal judge said on Friday it was “extremely troubling” that the Trump administration failed to comply with her court order to provide details on the status of a Maryland resident it illegally deported to El Salvador….
A U.S. judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to go ahead with a plan to make immigrants illegally living in or entering the United States register with the federal government or face fines or imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Trevor…
WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador. The court’s decision came…
U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is looking for ways to cut staffing by an additional 20% as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters earlier in…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Mexico with sanctions and tariffs in a dispute over water sharing between the two countries, accusing Mexico of breaking an 81-year-old treaty and “stealing the water from Texas Farmers.” Under the 1944 treaty,…
WASHINGTON -The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate’s intelligence committee on Thursday said he suspected a task force formed by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was pursuing a “witch hunt” for intelligence officers it deems disloyal to President Donald…
WASHINGTON -Tech billionaire Elon Musk, tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump with cutting the federal government, said he anticipates saving $150 billion for fiscal year 2026 from a “reduction of waste and fraud.”
JENA, Louisiana -A U.S. immigration judge will rule on Friday whether the government can deport Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a month after he was arrested at his Columbia University apartment building and transferred to a Louisiana jail. Last month,…
A federal judge on Friday refused to limit the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement activities in places of worship, ruling against a group of 27 religious organizations that had sued the administration over its decision to drop a previous policy against…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military has fired the commander of a U.S. Space Force base in Greenland following a visit there by Vice President JD Vance and said it would not tolerate actions that “subvert” President Donald Trump’s agenda. The…
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON – Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, sat down with President Donald Trump in the…
WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will seek to get major U.S. law firms to do free legal work to support his trade team’s negotiations with other countries after four firms in recent weeks agreed to donate…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has brought on several staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to an email sent to regulatory staff Thursday. The regulator, which monitors banks and backstops deposits via its insurance…
WASHINGTON – Minutes after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on a tariff plan that triggered a stock market rout and global upheaval, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent strode out of the White House to explain the abrupt turnabout….
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated. One of Trump’s directives named Christopher Krebs,…
BOSTON – A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday from revoking the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston issued…
Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting campaign at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission raises concern about exposure of confidential corporate data, say two Democratic commissioners at the agency who were fired last month by President Donald Trump. Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya…
U.S. President Donald Trump has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white…
The Trump administration is calling on states to request waivers that would bar food stamp recipients from buying soda and other processed foods with their benefits, according to a Thursday op-ed by U.S. health and agriculture secretaries, Robert F. Kennedy…
BOSTON -When Zaya Perysian received her new passport in the mail in late January, she knew exactly who to blame for why it listed her, a transgender woman, as male: U.S. President Donald Trump. First the California social media influencer…