POLITICS

White House Outlines Trump’s Tax Priorities

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The president’s plan centers on renewing key provisions of his 2017 tax cuts while eliminating taxes on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security benefits. President Donald Trump outlined his tax agenda to Republican lawmakers at the White House on Feb. 6, according to press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who described the plan as “the largest tax

Judge bars DOJ from disclosing information on FBI agents tied to Jan. 6 cases

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Washington — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday temporarily prevented the Justice Department from disclosing information about FBI agents who fear they will be targeted because of their work on cases involving President Trump and the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ordered that the Justice Department

USAID shutdown ripples worldwide: “Huge impact on actual human lives”

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Abdul Fatorma, chief executive of the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International, had been working on expanding democracy in Sierra Leone for seven years.  Civil war had plagued the West African coastal nation for decades, ending in 2002 — and slowly, peace had returned, helping to reduce migration and violence. Essential to that progress,

Federal workers get delay in resignation deadline — here’s what to know

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Millions of federal workers have more time to ponder their next career move after a judge on Thursday temporarily suspended the Office of Personnel Management’s deadline for them to accept or reject the agency’s “deferred resignation” offer. The cutoff to take the deal had been set to expire at on Thursday at midnight Eastern time before

Trump Slaps Sanctions on Anti-Israel International Criminal Court

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‘By issuing arrest warrants for Israeli officials and Hamas officials at the same time, the ICC created a shameful moral equivalency,’ WH fact sheet says L: President Donald Trump R: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan (Anna Moneymaker; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Johnson urges Senate to wait for House to “do its work” on Trump agenda

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Washington — Speaker Mike Johnson urged his Senate GOP colleagues to wait for the House to “do its work” to advance President Trump’s agenda. He and House Republicans met with Mr. Trump for several hours Thursday to discuss the budget reconciliation process central to approving key components of the measure, which is expected, among other