Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules
A federal choose on Thursday ordered federal businesses to rehire tens of 1000's of probationary workers who have been fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the federal paperwork. U.S. District Choose William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” technique by the federal government’s central human assets workplace to sidestep authorized necessities for lowering the federal workforce. Alsup, a San Francisco-based appointee of President Invoice…
Judge orders DOGE and Elon Musk to turn over documents, answer written questions
A federal choose has ordered that Elon Musk and his Division of Authorities Effectivity flip over a wide selection of information and reply questions on plans it crafted to downsize federal businesses, hearth workers and droop federal contracts. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order Wednesday is a win for a gaggle of 14 Democratic state attorneys common who're suing President Donald Trump, Musk and DOGE, arguing that Musk has unconstitutionally…
Republicans have hated universities for years. Anti-war protests gave them a reason to punish them.
In 2021, JD Vance proclaimed “the schools are the enemy.” This week, the White Home declared conflict towards them. President Donald Trump and his administration are escalating their assaults on larger training, intensifying a yearslong effort to hobble the campuses they are saying breed progressive ideology by casting them not as areas of innovation, however as hotbeds of hate. Republicans have lengthy blamed faculty campuses for being ground-zero for a…
Trump's deportation goal would require economy-disrupting raids in red states
VEBLEN, South Dakota — Behind the bleary eyes of staff streaming out and in of a dairy farm dormitory right here in Kristi Noem’s state is a narrative of a booming trade, a damaged immigration system and the strain dealing with the Trump administration because it makes an attempt to forcibly take away 12 million undocumented immigrants. Noem, who was governor from 2019 to 2025, helped enhance the state’s thriving…
Ukrainian concessions ‘the only way’ to end Russia’s war, Rubio says
Ukraine should quit a few of the territory seized by Russia since 2014 for any settlement to finish the battle, Secretary of State Marco Rubio mentioned Monday as he headed to Saudi Arabia for peace talks. Rubio mentioned concessions are "the one manner" to finish the full-scale invasion that Russia launched in February 2022 that has killed practically one million folks on either side within the largest battle in Europe…
Trump is making his big speech to Congress. Here’s how to watch.
President Donald Trump is about to deal with Congress — and the remainder of the nation — on Tuesday night, his first prime-time tackle because the begin of his second time period. A president addressing Congress every year is routine. Nonetheless, from deep cuts to federal companies to public feuds with international allies, the early days of Trump’s second time period have been nothing shut to plain. Trump’s upcoming tackle…
Democratic Rep. Al Green ejected from Trump address
Rep. Al Inexperienced, a Texas Democrat, was ejected from President Donald Trump's tackle to a joint session of Congress Tuesday. Inexperienced stood within the aisle early in Trump's speech and shouted that Trump had "no mandate." Speaker Mike Johnson ordered Inexperienced faraway from the chamber and later instructed reporters he ought to be censured by the Home for the outburst. Inexperienced instructed reporters after leaving that chamber that "it is…
Trump pleads for more funding for mass deportations
President Donald Trump made a plea tonight for extra funding for his mass deportations agenda, a message he delivered because the members of the family of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, who have been killed by undocumented immigrants, sat within the viewers. Trump additionally shouted out Border Patrol agent Roberto Ortiz, who obtained a standing ovation. The president has been struggling to ramp up the removals of undocumented immigrants throughout…
Trump celebrates disruption and defies backlash
President Donald Trump declared the far-reaching, disruptive actions of his first 40 days in workplace as the primary wave of a “widespread sense revolution,” blaming Democrats throughout his joint tackle to Congress on Tuesday for lingering issues and claiming credit score for a wrecking ball strategy that's roiling Washington and the world. “America's momentum is again,” Trump mentioned in a stemwinder that lasted an hour and 40 minutes. “Our spirit…
Supreme Court rebuffs Trump in fight over foreign aid bills
The Supreme Courtroom has rebuffed the Trump administration’s request to elevate a lower-court order that required the federal government to shortly pay almost $2 billion that contractors and assist teams say they’re owed for U.S.-backed foreign-aid initiatives. In a 5-4 ruling Wednesday, the excessive courtroom’s majority famous {that a} deadline the decrease decide set final week to pay the payments had already handed, and the justices urged the decide to…
