WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has expanded the power of adviser Elon Musk’s government-cutting team over the State Department, making a Musk lieutenant acting head of foreign assistance.A senior U.S. official confirmed the new job for Jeremy Lewin, an associate of the Department of Government Efficiency earlier appointed to help finish dismantling the U.S. […]
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) defended student visa holders, saying the U.S. should treat them “fairly.” Lankford joined KFOR, a local Oklahoma station, for a panel discussion as the Trump administration has revoked hundreds of foreign student visas at dozens of colleges. “I do understand that if a student’s here, they’ve gotta follow American law, they […]
Admin responds by pulling $2.2 billion in grants and contracts Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) and Alan Garber (Harvard) Harvard University told the Trump administration to pound sand—and take $9 billion in federal grant money along with it. The school has advised its attorneys not to pursue a deal with the administration over a series […]
‘I am cutting off the money for this madness,’ said Sen. Joni Ernst L: Sen. Joni Ernst (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) R: The Wuhan Institute of Virology (Getty Images) American taxpayers will no longer be forced to finance brutal animal experiments in Chinese labs if Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) gets her way. Ernst on Tuesday […]
A Virginia-based judge has granted the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss its illegal firearm case against a Virginia-based Salvadoran national accused of being an MS-13 leader. The FBI announced the arrest of Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos on March 27 in Woodbridge, Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C., with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director […]
Vice President JD Vance appears on CBS’s Face the Nation on January 26 with a message to Catholic bishops. (Credit: Face the Nation screenshot) In his first major interview with European media, Vice President JD Vance asserted that Europe must not remain a “permanent security vassal” of the United States, arguing that the enduring […]
The whiplash from President Trump’s fresh tariff agenda has persisted into the weekend as the president’s approval rating takes a dip and Republicans on Capitol Hill work to carry out his domestic agenda. After implementing a flat 10 percent tariff on all goods coming into the country, alongside steeper reciprocal tariffs against dozens of nations, […]
The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organizing and labor complaints and hid its tracks, according to a whistleblower. Charlotte Gomez for NPR hide caption toggle caption Charlotte Gomez for NPR In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at […]
