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Air Force General C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shakes hands with Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti during the Army-Navy football game in Landover, Maryland, Dec. 14, 2024. The Navy won, 31-13. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joi…

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet at Trump Tower in New York City, Sept. 27, 2024. REUTERS WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a “dictator” on Wednesday a…

Elon Musk NEW YORK (Reuters) — A judge on Tuesday declined to immediately block Elon Musk’s government efficiency department from directing firings of federal workers or accessing databases, but said the case raises questions about Musk’s apparent unchecked authority as a top deputy to …

First responders work at the Delta Air Lines plane crash site at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on Feb. 17, 2025. REUTERS TORONTO (Reuters) — A Delta Air Lines regional jet flipped upside down upon landing at Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday am…

President Donald Trump at Daytona Beach, Florida, Feb. 16, 2025. (Reuters) — President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in its bid to fire the head of an independent U.S. agency that protects government whistleblowers, bringing its first legal battle…

A woman uses a mobile phone with the U.S. Capitol in the background on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Nov. 13, 2024. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The campaign by President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk to radically cut back the U.S. bureaucracy spread on Friday, firing more than 9,500 workers…

Donald Trump BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A U.S. judge on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to move ahead with a buyout program for federal workers that could usher tens of thousands of workers off government payrolls as part of a sweeping effort to downsize the U.S. …

A U.S. flag flies at full staff at the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on the inauguration day of Donald Trump’s second presidential term in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump ordered U.S. agencies on Tuesday to work closely with top adviser Elon Musk̵…

President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping shake hands ahead of their bilateral meeting during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said he had spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping since taking office on January 20, but did…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said he expects Elon Musk to find hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse at the Pentagon during an audit that the billionaire will lead. “I’m going to tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Educ…