Trump Cancels 60-Year-Old Affirmative Action Employment Mandate for Federal Contractors

Six decades of race- and gender-based government hiring initiatives are set to end. President Donald Trump has repealed a legal landmark from the earliest days of the federal government that obliged federal contractors to establish “affirmative action” programs aimed at increasing workplace diversity. Trump’s Jan. 21 order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity”

Trump considering major changes at FEMA, removes Fauci’s federal security detail

Trump considering major changes at FEMA, removes Fauci’s federal security detail – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump said Friday he was planning to sign an executive order that could lead to an overhaul, or elimination, of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan examines what this could mean. She

Trump bans funding for groups that aid abortion overseas

President Trump signed an order Friday reinstating a policy that requires foreign nongovernmental agencies to certify that they don’t provide or promote abortion if they receive U.S. federal funds for family planning assistance. The position, sometimes called the Mexico City Policy and referred to by opponents as the “global gag rule,” was first introduced more

Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico officially renamed Gulf of America

The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America, the Interior Department announced Friday, while the name of North America’s highest peak, Alaska’s Denali, has been changed back to Mount McKinley, both moves are in response to a controversial executive order signed by President Trump after he took office. The Interior Department

Rubio orders freeze of new funding for nearly all U.S. foreign aid programs

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sent an order to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts instructing a pause on “all new obligations of funding, pending a review, for foreign assistance programs funded by or through the Department and USAID.” The message was in line with the executive order President Trump signed on Monday to reevaluate

Federal judge, prosecutors battle over Oath Keepers’ access to Capitol

The federal judge who presided over the seditious conspiracy trial of far-right Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is locked in a battle with Washington, D.C.’s new interim top federal prosecutor over whether Rhodes and his co-defendants should be allowed into Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Capitol following President Trump’s commutation of their sentences.  District Court

Israel Postpones Lebanon Withdrawal in Sign That War Is Far From Over

JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that Israeli troops will remain in Lebanon beyond the 60-day deadline set by the ceasefire deal with Hezbollah. Netanyahu’s office said Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon was “conditioned on the Lebanese Army deploying in southern Lebanon and fully and effectively enforcing the agreement.” Under the ceasefire, the Lebanese