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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to undertake more large-scale layoffs of workers, while the president let downsizing czar Elon Musk take a star role at his first cabinet meeting and discuss his ambitious budget-cutting targe…

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. and Ukraine have agreed on the terms of a draft minerals deal central to Kyiv’s push to win Washington’s support as President Donald Trump seeks to rapidly end the war with Russia, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. A source …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. government’s human resources agency is rushing to shut down and drastically shrink entire departments in what sources familiar with the actions say will serve as a template for a second wave of mass layoffs in the federal bureaucracy. The Office of Personnel Ma…

Senate Republican leaders hold a press conference following the weekly Senate caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. House Republicans face a major test this week as the fractured and narrow caucus tries to unify around a plan to advance Pre…

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…