Thousands of employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepted the Trump administration’s voluntary resignation offer, leading to a significant reduction in force. The decrease accounts for about 15 percent of the total workforce at the department which regulates food quality, agriculture development and nationwide nutrition efforts. A USDA…
NPR’s Don Gonyea talks to Morgan Sung, host of the KQED podcast ‘Close All Tabs,’ about the rise of the ‘broligarchy’.
Vice President Vance defended President Trump from criticism regarding his Friday Truth Social post portraying himself as a pontiff days after the death of Pope Francis. “Hey, @JDVance, you fine with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father?” Bill Kristol, who served as chief of staff to the vice…
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett told shareholders Saturday he intends to retire from his role as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, an American multinational holding company. Buffett, 94, recommended that Canadian businessman and vice chairman Greg Abel succeed him after a 55-year run at the helm of the conglomerate. “I think the…
President Trump rounded out his first 100 days in office as lawmakers returned to Washington this week with the directive to pass his agenda amid lingering economic tensions. The administration’s tariff plan has left the global economy reeling as consumer confidence has plummeted. On Friday, the also president unveiled his…
You have probably already seen the jokes and memes about how President Trump is putting Secretary of State Marco Rubio in charge of so many orphaned government entities. What next? Will he be appointed to the Supreme Court? To the Fed? Yes, it’s all good for a laugh. But as…
The Voice of America (VOA) reporters’ plan to return to work next week is up in the air after an appeals court issued a stay on Saturday, halting a late April order from a district judge that prevented the administration from dismantling the international broadcaster. The court, in a 2-1…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s new assignment as President Trump’s interim national security adviser brings him deeper into an inner circle dominated by “America First” loyalists. But that may not mean more clout on policy decisions. “It doesn’t signal greater influence over policy,” said Kori Schake, a senior fellow and…
The blast radius from the controversy surrounding Virginia’s Republican lieutenant governor candidate expanded this week, when a top political aide to Gov. Glenn Youngkin stepped down from his post.His departure was the latest event in a week of turmoil that has pitted Republican leaders in the state against the GOP’s…
In 2019, sponsors Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would have limited credit-card annual interest rates including finance charges to 15 percent. In 2023, sponsor Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sought to limit rates to 18 percent. In 2024, candidate Donald Trump said he would limit rates to…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy slammed the Defense Department on Friday after an Army helicopter forced two commercial passenger jets landing at Reagan National Airport to shift course. On Thursday, air traffic control instructed a Delta Airlines flight and Republic Airways plane to perform go-arounds due to a “Priority Air Transport…
Comedian Bill Maher expressed frustration with the White House on Friday, just over 100 days since President Trump took office, citing economic uncertainty brought to the forefront by President Trump’s latest tariffs. “We hit the 100-day mark of the Trump administration, as you know, this week, and ooh, the numbers…
The billionaire investor, now 94, also said he would be resigning as CEO at the end of the year. He spoke at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting known as “Woodstock for Capitalists.” (Image credit: (AP Photo/Josh Funk))
Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister will be remembered as one of the most destructive eras in Canadian history. Under his watch, Canada’s national identity was diluted, civil liberties were trampled, economic competitiveness cratered and divisions between citizens deepened beyond repair. From draconian COVID crackdowns to the reckless invocation of…
President Trump’s administration is planning to cut more than 1,000 workers at the CIA and other intelligence agencies as it continues its push to downsize the federal government. Apart from the CIA, the reductions will occur at other intelligence agencies, such as the National Security Agency. The cuts, which total…
Tech billionaire Elon Musk reflected on his speech after President Trump’s inauguration in January, while lashing out at the media for misportraying what he called a loving gesture as a Nazi salute. Musk, who has played an influential role in helping Trump overhaul the government during the president’s first 100…
Far-right German party was labeled a ‘confirmed rightwing extremist group’ by country’s domestic intelligence service Germany’s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, following his criticism of Germany’s decision to label the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party as a “confirmed rightwing extremist group”. On…
Few lines are more central to the congressional Republican leadership’s elevator pitch than the idea that we will get major savings by cutting Medicaid fraud, not Medicaid benefits. This sales pitch is no small deal to this White House. A president seeking to pass his tax bill with slim congressional…
Production assistant Miriam Haley is the first accuser to testify at the disgraced Hollywood mogul’s retrial.
Mohsen Mahdawi, student detained by Ice last month, pens blistering attack on Trump’s deportation policies Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student freed on Wednesday after more than two weeks in immigration detention, has issued a stark warning about the US’s descent into authoritarianism. “Once the repression…