A federal judge in Washington Monday morning appeared inclined to deny an urgent request to temporarily block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from firing employees or accessing sensitive records from a half-dozen federal departments. After a nearly hourlong virtual hearing, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she planned to issue a ruling within 24 … Read more
A Delta flight had an “incident” when it arrived at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, according to the airport, and the plane was seen upside-down on the snow-covered ground. Eight people are injured, according to Peel Regional Police, whose jurisdiction includes the airport. One person was listed as “critical with non-life-threatening injuries” and seven … Read more
As President Trump looks north and repeatedly presses his case to absorb Canada as the “51st state,” politically minded Democrats who are otherwise outraged by almost everything else about his agenda find themselves contemplating a potential electoral boon should it ever happen. Few in Washington take the prospect all that seriously, of course. Canada has … Read more
ATLANTA — Good-government advocates, anti-tax conservatives, politicians of various stripes and everyday Americans grouse about “waste, fraud and abuse” across the U.S. government. President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency, led by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, opened the latest chapter for a phrase hailed as common sense and derided as propaganda. … Read more
A top official with the U.S. Agency for International Development acknowledged that “changes” in the agency’s payment system had left some foreign service officers without “certain allowance payments” in recent weeks as the Trump administration has sought to dismantle the aid organization, according to a sworn declaration filed Friday in federal court. Peter Marocco, a … Read more
To his critics, Elon Musk is an unelected and unaccountable government official wielding expansive executive power in violation of the U.S. Constitution. To President Donald Trump, the world’s richest man is a trusted adviser and authorized deputy, leading an unconventional — but entirely legal — campaign to downsize federal agencies. Now a pair of lawsuits … Read more
ABC News’ Jay O’Brien reports from the protests outside of the U.S. Capitol building as the Trump administration and DOGE begin mass government layoffs. Source link
The Oval Office meeting convened by President Trump brought together the most important leaders in the world of professional golf: Jay Monahan, the top executive at the PGA Tour, and, via telephone, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the chairman of the Saudi Arabia-backed league known as LIV Golf. The stated goal was to figure out a way to … Read more
A federal judge will hold a virtual hearing Monday to address the emergency motion filed by 14 states seeking to block tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from continuing to overhaul the federal government. Fourteen states filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging that Musk’s “expansive authority” is in violation of the … Read more
President Trump said on Monday that he had nominated the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, Ed Martin, a far-right election denier who sat on a board that raised cash for the Capitol rioters and pushed for their mass reprieve, to run the office on a permanent basis. Mr. Martin, who has minimal prosecutorial experience but … Read more