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Vice President JD Vance’s White House portfolio is coming into sharper focus.

Staff reductions set to take place at midnight on Friday as federal unions declare dismantling plan ‘unconstitutional’ Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly planning to keep just more than 600 essential workers at USAid, according to a notice sent to employees of the US foreign aid agency on Thursday night. The notice, shared with Reuters by … Read more

The Trump Justice Department appealed a Thursday order blocking the president’s birthright citizenship order, hours after the ruling was issued.  The Justice Department filed its appeal to the Ninth Circuit on Thursday evening. The move came shortly after U.S. District Judge John Coughenour extended a temporary restraining order he had previously issued. Coughenour notably scolded … Read more

US had made inroads against Chinese influence in Panama, but Trump’s demands could help Beijing expand its regional power When Panama’s then president Juan Carlos Varela was invited to the White House in June 2017, Donald Trump said the Panama canal was doing “pretty well” and described the bilateral relationship as “very strong”. Just days … Read more

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will resume important meetings and travel associated with the critical grant-review process amid an agency-wide communications freeze at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While the agency is working its way back to normalcy, its operations are still not completely back to what they were before President … Read more

Democrats on Friday morning attempted to enter the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C. to meet with acting Education Secretary Denise L. Carter but were stopped by security. The man, who said he was a federal employee, did not make it clear why the lawmakers were not allowed into the building. Rep. Maxwell Frost, … Read more

Dem. Sen. Chris Murphy was ripped on social media on Thursday morning over a post where he explained how he stayed up most of the night drinking Red Bull because democracy is “on the line” if Democrats do not stop Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts. “After taking the 2-5am shift … Read more

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Friday that a second flight to Guantanamo Bay carrying “dangerous criminal aliens” had departed a day earlier – just as she is heading to the site where up to 30,000 migrants could eventually be held. “A second flight of dangerous criminal aliens took off for … Read more

Marko Elez, 25, had been granted access to US government payment system containing sensitive personal data A member of Elon Musk’s self-styled “department of government efficiency” (Doge) unit who was at the centre of a court battle over access to the US government’s payment system has resigned after being linked to an openly racist social … Read more

Exclusive: Move allows China to further global influence, UK foreign secretary says on Ukraine visit Donald Trump’s plans to make dramatic cuts to the United States’ international aid budget could be a “big strategic mistake” that allows China to step in and further its global influence, the UK foreign secretary has said. David Lammy cautioned … Read more