A federal judge in Massachusetts barred the Trump administration on Thursday from imposing a midnight deadline on federal workers who were offered the chance to take a deferred resignation, pausing the initiative until a hearing on Monday afternoon. The offer, which had been set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, is part of a … Read more
The Navy’s elite TOPGUN pilot school quietly undertook an effort called Project Odin’s Eye in the fall of 2024 to try to detect and treat brain injuries in fighter crew members, and leaders kept it so confidential that not even the broader Navy knew about it. Now, the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government … Read more
A day after President Trump ordered federal agencies to coordinate in an effort to keep transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, the Education Department followed up on Thursday by wading into several of the most publicized and politically charged cases involving transgender athletes. The department announced that it would investigate the University … Read more
Only athletes who were assigned female at birth will be eligible to play women’s sports at N.C.A.A.-member colleges and universities, the organization announced on Thursday. That decision, effective immediately, came a day after President Trump signed an executive order barring transgender girls and women from playing sports in the women’s category at federally funded educational … Read more
Technology that would have allowed air traffic controllers to better track the movement of an Army helicopter before it collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River last week was turned off at the time of the crash, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said in an interview on Thursday. Members of the Senate … Read more
The Justice Department’s newly formed “Weaponization Working Group,” announced in a memo this week by Attorney General Pam Bondi, was purportedly intended to root out “abuses of the criminal justice process” by local and federal law enforcement officers. But a literal reading of its name suggests that the investigative body was also an example of … Read more
In the final days before Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, local, state and federal officials have described a dash to beef up security plans that were robust even before a New Year’s Day terrorist attack unleashed anguish and alarm in the city. One of the most visible changes is the “enhanced security zone” around … Read more
At least three people in three states have been arrested recently on charges that they had impersonated immigration agents or police officers to threaten others amid mounting efforts by the Trump Administration to increase deportations. On Saturday night, two students at Temple University in North Philadelphia identified themselves as “Police and Ice agents” to security … Read more
A bitter fight over partisan control of the Minnesota House of Representatives ended on Thursday as lawmakers announced a power-sharing deal in which a Republican will serve as speaker for the next two years. Lawmakers agreed that Democrats and Republicans would jointly run committees in the chamber once a special election takes place next month. … Read more
For the second time this week, a federal judge has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction to block President Trump’s effort to end automatic citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants. The decision, handed down on Thursday morning in Seattle, came a day after a judge in Maryland issued a nationwide injunction against … Read more