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 Apple announces $500 billion investment in U.S. amid tariff threats that could affect the iPhone By Associated Press Apple announced Monday that it plans to invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including plans to hire 20,000 people and build a new server factory in Texas. 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 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 24 Groups call on veterans to protest Trump administration’s ‘intentional betrayal’ of Afghans who helped U.S. forces By Laura Barrón-López Within hours of taking office, Trump issued an executive action that indefinitely halted all refugee admissions and foreign aid, including cancelling flights for Afghans who were already vetted and who had booked flights to come to the U.S. Trump’s actions… 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 France and Britain’s leaders head to Washington to urge Trump not to abandon Ukraine By Jill Lawless, Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week as Europe attempts to persuade President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine in pursuit of a peace deal in the three-year-old war with Russia. Continue reading
Feb 23 Watch 5:29 What Trump’s IVF executive order means for access to fertility assistance for Americans By Ali Rogin, Andrew Corkery One of the executive orders Trump signed this past week seeks policy recommendations to expand access to in vitro fertilization. According to a 2024 survey, 1 in 10 women of reproductive age say they received fertility assistance, including IVF, but… Continue watching
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
Feb 22 Who is Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, Trump’s pick to be the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman? By Tara Copp, Associated Press Trump said Friday night that Caine was his pick as the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, making the announcement in the same social media post in which he fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who had held that job for… Continue reading