US halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine
The US has briefly reduce off intelligence sharing with Ukraine, officers stated on Wednesday, the newest blow to the connection between the Trump administration and Kyiv. CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed the choice in an interview with Fox Enterprise Community on Wednesday morning. 4 folks conversant in the transfer stated that the freeze started a while after the Trump administration paused weapons shipments on Monday evening. The folks have been…
Judge temporarily halts Trump administration from ousting head of United States African Development Foundation
A federal choose quickly blocked the Trump administration from ousting america African Growth Basis’s CEO and President Ward Brehm, the newest growth within the struggle between the unbiased company and Division of Authorities Effectivity. It’s a short lived reprieve, pending a movement on a lawsuit filed Thursday in opposition to DOGE and a State Division official, for the small company that’s been pushing again in opposition to efforts to successfully…
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk
President Donald Trump convened his Cupboard in individual on Thursday to ship a message: You’re in control of your departments, not Elon Musk. In keeping with two administration officers, Trump instructed high members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make suggestions to the departments however to not problem unilateral selections on staffing and coverage. Musk was additionally within the room. The assembly adopted a sequence of mass firings…
Trump’s tariff war tests his tolerance for political risk
President Donald Trump’s commerce conflict with Canada and Mexico was all the time going to check his tolerance for political threat. Two days in, his resolution to announce a carve-out for automakers has left industries, market analysts and customers confused and flustered as they struggle to determine the place he's going subsequent. Following swift market backlash, Trump on Wednesday introduced a one-month reprieve for autos and auto elements from the…
Trump administration ordered to reinstate thousands of fired USDA workers
1000's of fired employees on the Division of Agriculture should get their jobs again for at the very least the subsequent month and a half, the chair of a federal civil service board dominated Wednesday. The ruling mentioned the current dismissals of greater than 5,600 probationary workers could have violated federal legal guidelines and procedures for finishing up layoffs. The decision from Cathy Harris, the chair of the Advantage Techniques…
An emboldened Trump ditches bipartisanship as Democrats revolt
President Donald Trump entered the Home chamber Tuesday evening donning his purple tie in an obvious try at political unity. The bipartisanship ended there. Inside minutes of Trump taking the dais, Democrats interrupted the president’s first joint tackle to Congress with jeers and boos — and Rep. Al Inexperienced (D-Texas) was forcibly faraway from the chamber on the path of Speaker Mike Johnson for a breach of decorum. Trump, in…
Email starts power clash between Musk and agency leaders — even the Trump loyalists
Elon Musk’s weekend menace to federal employees triggered panic and confusion Sunday as administration officers rushed to difficulty typically conflicting steerage, setting in movement an influence wrestle between Musk and company heads appointed by President Donald Trump to guide the federal authorities. The steerage different by company, with some leaders telling their staff to attend earlier than complying with Musk’s demand that they justify their jobs in writing and others…
Trump personally decided to limit Associated Press’ access to White House
President Donald Trump personally determined to bar The Related Press from some White Home occasions and areas, the White Home stated in courtroom paperwork Monday. The choice to grant journalists “particular entry” is a “quintessentially discretionary presidential selection,” authorities legal professionals wrote in a 23-page brief submitted upfront of an emergency courtroom listening to Monday afternoon. “Because the Related Press itself reported, the President himself made the choice to terminate…
Crowds protest JD Vance at Vermont ski resort
WAITSFIELD, Vermont— Crowds protesting Vice President JD Vance the day after an Oval Workplace blowout over Ukraine lined roadways Saturday close to a Vermont ski resort the place he deliberate a weekend trip along with his household. Most of the a whole lot of demonstrators held indicators in help of Ukraine, whereas different anti-war protesters waved Palestinian flags or indicators in help of immigrant rights. Protesters confirmed up at a…
White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president
The White Home introduced on Tuesday that the administration — not an unbiased group of journalists — will decide which retailers have entry to the president as a part of a pool allowed into the Oval Workplace, aboard Air Pressure One and into different conferences and occasions that can't accommodate the complete press corps. The choice comes a day after the administration received a short lived ruling permitting it to…