TEL AVIV—Israel halted any entry of goods into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, signaling the start of a more aggressive phase of its war to destroy Hamas. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision was a response to Hamas’s rejection of a proposal by U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to extend the phase
The plan could help prevent a government shutdown ahead of the looming March 14 funding deadline. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on March 2 that he prefers passing a clean government funding extension to prevent a government shutdown through September before working towards including cuts recommended by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in
‘Exactly what they are, we’re going to leave that for the president and his team to negotiate,’ Howard Lutnick said. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on March 2 that tariffs on Mexico and Canada will resume as planned on Tuesday, but that the president will establish their exact levels. President Donald Trump had previously promised
The head of the new cost-cutting effort added that some federal agencies will respond on behalf of employees to a mass email. Adviser to President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, said Saturday that some federal agencies will respond on behalf of employees to an email asking what federal workers did in the past week and that
The Ukrainian president ‘needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude or someone else needs to lead the country,’ the speaker said. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have to resign in the wake of a high-profile public spat between himself, President
Decisions related to home building and zoning will now come under the purview of local leaders. An Obama-era housing rule that was terminated by the first Trump administration and revived by the Biden administration has again been canceled. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said the regulation has led to excessive bureaucracy
The IRS’s free direct-file tax website is currently still online. The Trump administration has removed the team of federal workers who helped build the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) free tax-filing platform and reworked websites across government, a General Service Administration spokesperson said on March 1. GSA’s Director of Technology Transformation Services, Thomas Shedd, notified the