Court Rejects Trump Admin’s Bid to Block Reinstatement of Thousands of Employees

A majority of an appeals court panel says blocking a lower court’s order would ‘disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head.’ A federal appeals court on March 17 denied an attempt from President Donald Trump’s administration to block the reinstatement of thousands of newer federal government employees who had recently been fired.

Trump Visits Kennedy Center as New Chair, Announces Plans to Overhaul Venue

Trump earlier criticized the venue for hosting drag shows and other programs he deemed counter to traditional American values. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17 to attend a board meeting as the new chair, a month after making a sweeping leadership shakeup at the Washington-based

Deported Brown University Professor Attended Hezbollah Chief’s Funeral

Funeral attendees pledged allegiance to Hezbollah and chanted ‘Death to Israel, death to America’ L: Manning Hall at Brown University (Wikimedia Commons) R: Illustration of Hassan Nasrallah shown at his funeral (Daniel Carde/Getty Images) Federal authorities found evidence Rasha Alawieh, an assistant professor of medicine at Brown University, attended Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in

Democrats Wrestle With DOGE and Musk

WASHINGTON—During the first two months of the second Trump administration, few issues have united Democrats like opposition to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a time-limited organization directed by executive order to “to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity” across scores of agencies. That unified anti-DOGE message came through from both the New