President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he directed his national security team to “start negotiations immediately” to end the war in Ukraine following a call with Russian president Vladimir Putin. “I have asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve
A 53–47 vote along party lines moved Kennedy one step closer to becoming HHS secretary. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s path to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) received a significant boost on Feb. 12 when the Senate voted 53–47 to invoke cloture on his nomination for the post. The decision
The Pentagon’s Biden-era climate initiatives may soon be on the chopping block as President Donald Trump moves to cut wasteful military spending while ramping up the overall defense budget. “There is waste, redundancies, and headcounts at headquarters that need to be addressed. There’s just no doubt,” Trump’s newly confirmed defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, told Axios on
A number of pages and datasets were taken down to comply with a Trump executive order. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) complied with a judge’s order on Tuesday by restoring certain website pages and datasets that had been taken down to comply with a
Trump said he would follow up his call with the Russian leader by reaching out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. President Donald Trump said he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 12 and the two agreed to “start negotiations immediately” to end the war in Ukraine. “I just had a lengthy and highly
Eight inspectors general allege their recent terminations were illegal. Eight inspectors general fired by the Trump administration are suing to have their jobs restored. A lawsuit filed on Feb. 12 in Washington asks a federal judge to recognize the dismissals as unlawful and reinstate the independent watchdogs to their respective offices. The plaintiffs are the
The agency cannot see or use information from more than a dozen internal databases related to student finance until next Monday. A federal judge has temporarily barred Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing federal student loan and financial aid information stored at the U.S. Department of Education. In an order issued Tuesday evening, Judge