Federal agency workers supporting museums, libraries put on leave

Nearly all employees at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an agency created by Congress to support American museums and libraries, were put on administrative leave Monday, according to a Trump administration official. An IMLS employee and a union representing them said all employees were put on leave, but an administration official said 12

US Sanctions Chinese, Hong Kong Officials for Undermining City’s Freedoms, Persecuting Activists Abroad

The action targets the officials for their role in ‘coercing, arresting, detaining, or imprisoning’ dissidents in Hong Kong and abroad. WASHINGTON—The United States on March 31 sanctioned six Beijing and Hong Kong officials for abuses in the China-ruled city and efforts of transnational repression on U.S. soil, the first such step that the new Trump

Trump Establishes New Office to Oversee CHIPS Act and Accelerate Investments

The new Investment Accelerator will help ‘cut through red tape’ and allow businesses to quickly use capital and create jobs, according to the White House. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday creating the United States Investment Accelerator, a new office within the Commerce Department aimed at streamlining the implementation of the CHIPS Act

Judge delays Trump admin’s move to end protection for Venezuelan migrants

A federal judge in California on Monday agreed to delay the Trump administration’s move to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program that currently shields roughly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants from deportation. Under a decision announced by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in February, these migrants were slated to lose their government-issued work permits and

Luna exits House Freedom Caucus over effort to block remote voting for new moms

Washington — Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida withdrew her membership from the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Monday amid a divide over whether the lower chamber should allow new parents in Congress to vote remotely around the birth of their child.  “With a heavy heart, I am resigning from the Freedom Caucus,” she