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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…

Protesters at the USAID building in Washington, D.C., Feb. 3, 2025. (Reuters) — In Ghana and Kenya, insecticide and mosquito nets sit in warehouses because U.S. officials haven’t approved urgent anti-malaria campaigns. In Haiti, a group treating HIV patients awaits U.S. permission to dispense medic…

Authorities inspect the wreckage of the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft operated by Berring Air, that suddenly lost altitude and went missing with 10 people on board on Thursday, near Nome, Alaska on Feb. 7, 2025. (Reuters) — The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska found the wreckage of a small plane ato…

Federal agents, including Immigration & Customs Enforcement, FBI and HSI police, conduct raids at Cedar Run apartment complex in Denver, Colorado, Feb. 5, 2025. REUTERS (Reuters) — Officers from several U.S. federal agencies searched for illegal immigrant1 on Wednesday in Aurora, the Colorado c…

President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2025. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. would take over the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and develop it economically after Palestinians …