Government and politics
Appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to reinstate funding freeze
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 11, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to pause a lower court’s order that temporarily halted a massive freeze in federal funding. A judge in Rhode Island on Monday […]
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Musk says DOGE is ‘what democracy is all about’ during Oval Office visit
Elon Musk on Tuesday defended his “Department of Government Efficiency” against critics, saying the unaccountable cost-slashing task force represents the will of American voters who elected President Donald Trump. “That’s what democracy is all about,” said Musk, who contributed more than $250 million to getting Trump elected. Musk, with one of his young sons in tow, stood alongside Trump in the […]
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Trump FBI pick Kash Patel accused of directing staff purge while still a nominee
Kash Patel, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of the FBI, looks on as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, was accused Tuesday of personally directing an […]
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Trump says Treasury Secretary Bessent is going to Ukraine as U.S. has ‘little to show’ for aid sent
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks, at the White House, in Washington, U.S. February 3, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will head to Ukraine for discussions about the war with Russia, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that Bessent will […]
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Former Trump aide Steve Bannon pleads guilty in New York ‘build the wall’ case
Steve Bannon, former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for a hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 11, 2025 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Steve Bannon, a former top White House aide to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday in New York in connection with the defrauding of […]
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Ukraine ‘may be Russian someday,’ Trump says, as the U.S. ups the pressure on Kyiv and allies
Donald Trump (L) and Russia’s Vladimir Putin arrive to attend a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. Yuri Kadobnov | Afp | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine could lose its sovereignty to Russia, and said he wanted compensation for the aid […]
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Trump gets high approval ratings for his first weeks, new CBS poll finds
Football – NFL – Super Bowl LIX – Philadelphia Eagles v Kansas City Chiefs – Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States – February 9, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump salutes before the game Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters President Donald Trump received one of his highest job approval ratings in his decade-long political career, after […]
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Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 30, 2025. Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump is set Monday to sign an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits […]
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Trump, Musk actions put America at risk of ‘a form of default,’ former Treasury chiefs warn
Elon Musk walks on Capitol Hill on the day of a meeting with Senate Republican Leader-elect John Thune (R-SD), in Washington, U.S. December 5, 2024. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Five former Treasury secretaries warned Monday that recent actions at the Treasury Department by Trump administration officials and Elon Musk’s DOGE team raise “substantial cause for […]
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Judge to consider extending pause on Trump’s federal worker buyout plan
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (not pictured) at the White House in Washington, U.S., Feb. 7, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters The federal judge who paused the Trump administration’s offer of mass buyouts for government workers will hear arguments Monday afternoon about the legality of the “deferred resignation” program. […]
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