Washington — President Trump on Monday removed the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the independent agency responsible for overseeing ethics rules and financial disclosures for the executive branch. “OGE has been notified that the President is removing David Huitema as the director of OGE,” the office said in a notice on its website.
President Trump is again turning to tariffs to advance his trade agenda, with plans to enact a new round of 25% import duties on all steel and aluminum imports. Although the idea is to protect U.S. manufacturers from unfair competition, consumers could end up paying more for some products that use the metals, according to
File: Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) arrives at a House Republican caucus meeting at the Longworth House Office Building on October 13, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Joe Raedle / Getty Images A battle to replace Kentucky GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell is starting to shape up — even though the former majority leader hasn’t announced that he’s
The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) was slapped with a lawsuit on Monday over a slew of race-based hiring programs that discriminate against white scholars, the latest sign that faculty hiring could become a target for litigants seeking to challenge racial preferences under the Trump administration. The plaintiff, Stephen Kleinschmit, a former professor of public
The university is claiming that the story omitted details it included L: Manning Hall at Brown University (Wikimedia Commons) R: Brown Dean of Medicine Mukesh Jain (brown.edu) When doctors reached out to the dean of Brown University Medical School regarding a Washington Free Beacon report published earlier this month, they received a reply from medical
‘I want to leave because there’s no life left here; life here is gone,’ one interviewee says As President Donald Trump moves forward with his plan to “own” Gaza and relocate its inhabitants, some citizens of the war-torn strip are expressing an eagerness to leave, citing a desolate living situation and an eagerness to live
‘I want to find out about the two assassins. … why did one guy have six cell phones and why did the other guy have [foreign] apps?’ the president says. President Donald Trump said he wants the Secret Service to provide him with information about the two attempts on his life last year, including details