Washington — President Trump expressed the “anguish of our entire nation” Friday after he and first lady Melania Trump met with families of the victims of last week’s deadly flooding in Central Texas. The president and first lady surveyed the devastation in Kerrville, Texas, and met with first responders, local officials and survivors. The death
Washington — The State Department on Friday began laying off more than 1,300 staffers as it seeks to cut the size of its U.S. workforce by about 15%, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping plan to reorganize the department. The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a
A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al Qaeda’s 2001 attacks. The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to
Washington — President Trump and first lady Melania Trump landed in Central Texas on Friday to survey the devastation wrought by last week’s deadly flooding, as first responders and family members continue their search for the missing. The Trumps are speaking with local officials and first responders in Kerrville, Texas, as the death toll in
Washington — Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who previously served as President Trump’s criminal defense attorney, declined to rule out the possibility of the president running for a third term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel considering his nomination for
The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some laid-off staff if they could return to work temporarily, as the department grapples with a backlog of grants that has swelled to more than a billion dollars in the wake of hurdles set up by DOGE. Multiple HHS officials, who were not authorized to speak
Washington — The State Department on Friday began laying off more than 1,300 staffers as it seeks to cut the size of its U.S. workforce by about 15%, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping plan to reorganize the department. The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, according to a