The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says the Trump administration has ‘not identified a federal statute’ granting the authority to conduct mass firings. A San Francisco-based federal appeals court on Friday denied the Trump administration’s bid to pause a lower court ruling that had blocked President Donald Trump’s directives for workforce reductions at federal agencies
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on May 29 expressed his support for Rosa María Payá Acevedo’s candidacy for commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the main body of the Organization of American States (OAS). Payá, a Cuban activist and daughter of Oswaldo Payá, a Cuban leader of the Christian Liberation Movement who
The director, Kim Sajet, had served in the role since 2013. Trump says he would soon name a replacement. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on May 30 announced that he has dismissed the director of the National Portrait Gallery, an institution in Washington known for hosting portraits of U.S. presidents and other artwork. The National Portrait Gallery
The Supreme Court is heading into its summer recess, which means the justices will be issuing a series of hotly-anticipated decisions throughout June. These decisions could yield significant precedents that ripple through the national political environment, impacting congressional and executive agendas alike. So far, the court has already released rulings on e-cigarettes, a deportation case,
‘Nobody’s going to get around that,’ the president says at a U.S. Steel mill in Western Pennsylvania. WEST MIFFLIN, Pa.–President Donald Trump announced May 30 that tariffs are doubling to 50 percent for steel and aluminum imported into the United States. “We are going to be imposing a 25 percent increase. We’re going to bring
The president made the announcement during a rally held at the U.S. Steel mill in Western Pennsylvania. WEST MIFFLIN, Pa.–President Donald Trump announced May 30 that tariffs are doubling to 50 percent for all steel imported into the United States. He revealed the policy change during a rally held at the U.S. Steel Corporation’s Irvin
In an update, the group says that it has deactivated 523,000 cards so far. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Thursday said that it has canceled another 20,000 or so federal credit cards and will expand its cancellation efforts to more agencies. In a post on X, the group wrote that after 13 weeks,