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Tapping into DoD funding to hire contractors would vastly expand the scale and scope of immigrant arrests and deportations in the U.S.

Labor secretary nominee former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer listed on her questionnaire for a Senate committee that she worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic when she was in her early 20s.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday reinforcing a “unified” voice for U.S. foreign policy that prioritizes his “America First” agenda.  The executive order emphasizes the State Department’s responsibility to uphold the Trump administration’s foreign policy priorities, and that the agency has the proper channels to ensure that “officers and employees faithfully implement the … Read more

Street art will mark 60 years since US civil rights leader’s trip to Smethwick shortly before his assassination It was a moment that united the US civil rights movement with the anti-racist movement in Britain, helping to change the country – and to mark its 60th anniversary it will be commemorated with a mural. On … Read more

Spending public money carefully is a virtue in itself, but running down the public sector can cause huge problems later on Slash-and-burn government is back in vogue. Whether it is Elon Musk and his engineers taking the axe to US agency spending, the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, wishing she had her own mini-Musk, or Sir Keir Starmer … Read more

Entry-level workers at USAID, other federal agencies and government-backed nonprofits are filing for unemployment and applying to private-sector jobs.

The White House has confirmed that President Trump discussed negotiations to end the war in Ukraine during separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth says Ukraine would have to cede territory, alarming Kyiv and European allies Donald Trump has said that he and Vladimir Putin have agreed to begin negotiations to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, as the secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, said that Ukraine would have to cede territory and reject … Read more

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declared Wednesday that “the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump’s basic executive authority.”  Leavitt made the remarks as dozens of activist and legal groups, elected officials, … Read more

Eight former inspectors general fired by President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit to get their positions back. In the complaint, the inspectors general claimed that their “unlawful and unjustified purported termination” constituted interference with their “non-partisan oversight duties.” While President Trump has the authority to remove inspectors general, he did not give Congress the mandatory … Read more