Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations, in an email from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, on Saturday evening. Mr. Vought, who was confirmed this week to lead the Office of … Read more
MEXICO CITY — A magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook the Caribbean Sea southwest of the Cayman Islands Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and some islands and countries urged people near the coastline to move inland in case of a tsunami. The quake struck at 6:23 p.m. local time in the middle of the sea and … Read more
A federal judge’s order that Elon Musk’s team temporarily cease boring into the Treasury Department’s payment systems raises a far larger question: whether what Elon Musk has labeled the Department of Government Efficiency is creating a major cyber and national security vulnerability. The activities of Mr. Musk’s government cost-cutting effort, U.S. District Judge Paul A. … Read more
The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content and access apps, started working again on Saturday night after a 24-hour outage that left customers frustrated. “All services are up and running,” PlayStation announced on its website around 7 p.m. on Saturday. The problems, which prevented many … Read more
In a striking display of the limits being placed on congressional authority in the first weeks of the new administration, several Democratic lawmakers were denied entry to the U.S. Department of Education on Friday. “Get out of the way,” Representative Maxine Waters of California told a man blocking more than a dozen House Democrats from … Read more
The city of Springfield, Ohio, which was singled out by Donald J. Trump and JD Vance during the presidential campaign with false and outrageous claims about Haitian immigrants, has sued a neo-Nazi group that helped draw national attention to the small city in the first place. The suit, filed in federal court on Thursday, was … Read more
new video loaded: House Democrats Denied Entry to the U.S. Department of Education transcript Back transcript House Democrats Denied Entry to the U.S. Department of Education Several Democratic lawmakers attempted to access the department’s headquarters on Friday, after a request to meet with the acting education secretary went unanswered. “We’re coming in. Don’t block the … Read more
Despite verbal assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about allowing lifesaving humanitarian aid to continue, international aid and development work funded by the U.S. government have almost entirely come to a halt, multiple leaders in humanitarian aid confirmed to ABC News. Many organizations say they are now worried food from U.S. farmers that had … Read more
A federal judge’s order that Elon Musk’s team temporarily cease boring into the Treasury Department’s payment systems largely rests on questions about privacy and cybersecurity. The activities of Mr. Musk’s government cost-cutting effort, the judge said in his order on Saturday, risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render them “more vulnerable than … Read more
The Trump administration has moved more than 30 people described as Venezuelan gang members to the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, as U.S. forces and homeland security staff prepare a tent city for potentially thousands of migrants. About a dozen of the men were brought in from El Paso, Texas, on Friday, as Kristi … Read more