The Trump administration has signaled it will shake up the disaster relief agency. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said she is recommending that President Donald Trump “get rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “the way it exists today.” FEMA is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by floods, fires, drought, earthquakes,
Washington — A union representing employees across dozens of federal agencies filed two lawsuits on Sunday against the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with one seeking to block the apparent shutdown of the agency and another aimed at stopping Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing employee records and information.
Washington — A federal judge in New Hampshire on Monday blocked President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, becoming the third judge to do so amid more than half a dozen legal challenges to the president’s directive. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante said at the end of a brief hearing that he would
President Trump said Sunday that he will announce 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States on Monday. Mr. Trump, speaking on Air Force One on the way to New Orleans to attend the 2025 Super Bowl, said he would also announce “reciprocal tariffs” on Tuesday or Wednesday, which he said
The anti-Semitic U.N. official Francesca Albanese says Donald Trump’s plan to make Gaza the “Riviera of the Middle East” is “worse than ethnic cleansing.” We’ve heard a lot of that sort of rhetoric in the wake of Trump’s announcement, so we asked the eminent historian Andrew Roberts to weigh in. Nations and peoples that start
This follows an executive order Trump signed on his inauguration day, calling for the name change. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Sunday declaring Feb. 9 as “the first-ever Gulf of America Day,” following his executive order on Jan. 20 to rename the ocean basin previously known as the Gulf of Mexico. Trump signed
Albuquerque, N.M. — A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees “fit the profile of those