President Donald Trump’s administration acknowledged on Sunday night that some federal government employees who took the “Fork in the Road” buyout offer were also, subsequently, fired or let go — and that this was an error. An Office of Personnel Management official told ABC News that some employees who responded to the buyout offer ahead … Read more
JERUSALEM — Israel issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. Peace Now says the development of 974 new housing units would allow the population of the Efrat settlement to expand by 40% and further block the development of the nearby … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk. Three U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press … Read more
new video loaded: Deadly Storm Hits the South With Floods and Heavy Snow transcript Back transcript Deadly Storm Hits the South With Floods and Heavy Snow Heavy snowfall made it hard to drive in Kentucky and floods forced a town in Tennessee to evacuate. Whole entire trees have come down here and washed away. Recent … Read more
As the rains began to drench Eastern Kentucky this weekend, Mimi Pickering looked anxiously out her window in the town of Whitesburg as the North Fork Kentucky River kept rising, and rising, and rising. Would it once again swallow the bridge that leads to the historic Main Street? And would the media and arts education … Read more
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has requested access to an Internal Revenue Service system that retains the personal tax information of millions of Americans, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The system, known as the Integrated Data Retrieval System, is used by IRS employees to review tax information, issue notices and … Read more
When termination letters were sent to employees across the federal government last week, the Trump administration affected an agency charged with the readiness of America’s nuclear arsenal. The move also shined a spotlight on the agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration, which few Americans likely think of often, if ever, but has a monumental responsibility. … Read more
A post Saturday on X and TruthSocial by President Donald Trump has Democrats and critics accusing him of acting like a dictator and declaring himself above the law. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump wrote in the post. Trump did not elaborate and the White House offered no comment, but … Read more
In the first case to reach the Supreme Court arising from the blitz of actions taken in the early weeks of the new administration, lawyers for President Trump asked the justices on Sunday to let him fire a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency. The administration’s emergency application asked the court to vacate a … Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reiterated in an interview that aired on Sunday that his country would “never” accept a peace deal struck by the United States and Russia if Ukraine did not have a seat at the negotiating table. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Zelensky sought to avoid criticisms of … Read more