SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Friday setting aside $50 million to help the state protect its policies from challenges by the Trump administration and defend immigrants amid the president’s mass-deportation plans. One of the laws allocates $25 million for the state Department of Justice to fight legal battles against the federal … Read more
As Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency works to reduce government spending by eliminating waste and cutting diversity programs, his SpaceX corporation currently has a multibillion dollar contract to help NASA land the first woman and first person of color on the moon. In 2021, NASA announced that it had awarded a $2.9 billion … Read more
Four men charged with burglarizing the Ohio home of Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow last year posed for pictures with some of the $300,000 worth of designer luggage, glasses, wrist watches and jewelry stolen from the residence, according to a newly unsealed federal criminal complaint. An image taken from the cellphone of one of the … Read more
One day after a Treasury Department employee associated with Elon Musk’s DOGE cost-cutting efforts resigned following a Wall Street Journal report about his racist social media posts, the Trump administration has vowed to reinstate the employee. Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and X who is leading the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, posted … Read more
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency group has made swift work of the billionaire’s goal to scale back or dismantle much of the federal government, end diversity policies and otherwise further President Donald Trump’s agenda. DOGE employees, many of whom have no government experience, have been going through data systems, shutting down DEI programs and … Read more
The wreckage of the Bering Air caravan that went missing Thursday has been located, with all 10 on board believed to be dead, authorities in Alaska said. The aircraft was located Friday sitting on sea ice approximately 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, the U.S. Coast Guard said, releasing a photo of the crashed aircraft. … Read more
A federal judge plans to block the Trump administration from orchestrating its plan to place more than 2,000 employees of the United States Agency for International Development on leave at midnight. Two foreign service unions had sued the federal government amid the Trump administration’s attempts to reduce USAID’s workforce from 14,000 to only 300 employees. … Read more
An organization with the mission of electing Republicans to state attorney general positions is bringing back a former executive director who resigned in the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Republican Attorneys General Association announced the position for Adam Piper on Friday. Piper held the job from 2018 … Read more
Current and former U.S. Agency for International Development officials, speaking anonymously due to fear of retribution, blasted the Trump administration’s gutting of the aid agency, saying it has left critical partners in the lurch and much of its staff in limbo overseas. In addition to the humanitarian work that has halted, scores of career USAID … Read more
At the U.S. Agency for International Development this week, as a team from the Department of Government Efficiency quietly worked to dismantle the aid agency, those who hadn’t already been locked out of its Washington headquarters busied themselves with work they never imagined doing — shutting it down. “We feel like it’s closing time at … Read more