Feb 24 Conservatives who still oppose Trump gather at 'Principles First Summit' in search of a path forward By Bill Barrow, Associated Press Conservatives who filled a ballroom a few blocks from the White House have lamented that the United States is abandoning the fundamental ideals that forged a great nation. Continue reading
Feb 24 Conservative media personality, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino picked as FBI deputy director By Adriana Gomez Licon, Eric Tucker, Associated Press A former U.S. Secret Service agent who has penned best-selling books, ran unsuccessfully for office and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a popular podcast has been chosen to serve as FBI deputy director. Continue reading
Feb 24 AP report: FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press Barely a week after mass firings at the Food and Drug Administration, some probationary staffers received unexpected news over the weekend: The government wants them back. Continue reading
Feb 24 Supreme Court won't hear cases from anti-abortion activists on protest limits By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights. Continue reading
Feb 24 WATCH: Trump says 'this is the right time' to end Ukraine war in joint news conference with France's Macron By Sylvie Corbet, Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press President Donald Trump said he was hopeful that Russia's war in Ukraine was nearing an endgame as he met on Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron on the third anniversary of the invasion. Continue reading
Feb 24 Federal workers sue over Elon Musk's threat to fire them if they don't explain their accomplishments By Lindsay Whitehurst, Chris Megerian, Associated Press Attorneys for federal workers said Monday in a lawsuit that billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk had violated the law with his weekend demand that employees explain their accomplishments or risk being fired. Continue reading
Feb 24 LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case about a Texas man on death row suing for access to DNA testing By Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn’t kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago. Continue reading
Feb 24 Fired federal workers search for new jobs but struggle to replace their old ones By Matt Sedensky, Associated Press Axed from jobs not easily found outside government, thousands of federal workers caught in President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting efforts now face a difficult search for work. Continue reading
Feb 23 Trump administration moves ahead with firing 2,000 USAID workers, with thousands more put on leave By Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave worldwide and eliminating 2,000 U.S.-based staff positions. Continue reading
Feb 23 Musk demands to know what all federal workers did last week, some agencies say not to respond By Steve Peoples, Associated Press Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, sparking confusion across key agencies as billionaire Elon Musk expands his drive to slash the size of… Continue reading