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
Feb 22 WATCH: Trump celebrates mass federal firings in his speech to supporters at CPAC By Will Weissert, Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press President Donald Trump said Saturday that “nobody has ever seen anything" like his administration's sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees and shrink the size of government, congratulating himself for “dominating” Washington and sending bureaucrats “packing.”… Continue reading
Feb 22 Watch 5:34 The potential consequences of Trump's unprecedented Pentagon shakeup By John Yang, Satvi Sunkara, Juliet Fuisz Trump’s shakeup of Washington reached the Pentagon on Friday as he fired several top military leaders, including Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump selected retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch 4:10 News Wrap: Trump touts his administration's achievements at CPAC In our news wrap Saturday, Trump spoke at the final day of CPAC, new FBI director Kash Patel is shifting agents away from the D.C. area, Hamas released the last six living hostages promised in the first phase of its… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch 6:52 The Project 2025 policies the Trump administration is already implementing By William Brangham, Harry Zahn In the first month of his second term, President Trump has reshaped the government with a flurry of executive orders. A recent analysis by Politico found that many of those actions have closely aligned with Project 2025, a conservative policy… Continue watching
Feb 22 Fact-checking the Trump White House's claims about illegal immigration dropping sharply By Maria Ramirez Uribe, PolitiFact Illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border has dropped since Trump entered the White House. But the White House’s data use is misleading. … Continue reading