Category: Politics

President Trump’s first cabinet meeting was a display of deference to Elon Musk. Source: Original News

The justices ruled last week that the president could not, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads the watchdog agency that protects whistle-blowers. Source: Original News

Energy Transfer, which owns the Dakota Access Pipeline, is seeking $300 million, a sum that Greenpeace says could bankrupt the storied environmental group. Source: Original News

Federal officials circulated a memo asking agency leaders to plan even more job reductions after thousands of federal workers were fired in recent weeks. Source: Original News

Debate is building over just how deep the Trump administration’s antagonism runs, and whether the real goal is to destroy the European Union. Source: Original News

Justices across the ideological spectrum and lawyers on both sides agreed that an appeals court erred in requiring members of majority groups to meet a heightened burden. Source: Original News

Adoption of the Republican budget was the easy part. Now comes the difficult task of writing a bill consistent with what President Trump has demanded. Source: Original News

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said negotiating teams would hold talks on Thursday in Istanbul. Source: Original News

The decision could apply more broadly to thousands of other government employees who were fired because they were on probationary status and relatively new in their positions. Source: Original News

In 2023, Democratic money helped elect a liberal to the state Supreme Court, swinging it to the left. Now, Elon Musk and other wealthy donors have given Republicans a chance to swing it back. Source: Original News