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Unions sue to block federal worker buyout plan as 20,000 line up to quit

The American Federation of Government Employees and two other unions claim the buyout offer is arbitrary and capricious and violates federal law

Trump administration begins flying detained migrants to Guantanamo Bay

Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the expansion of a migrant detention center at the military installation to full capacity

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Trump moves to cancel recent union agreements with federal workers

Trump embarks on a massive makeover of the US government, firing and sidelining hundreds of civil servants

Trump's tech buddies won't escape US scrutiny, warns Texas Attorney General

Trump realises they are a big part of our economy, how they perform matters, said Paxton

US aid agency in upheaval amid foreign assistance freeze, staff departures

Trump administration changes have upended the US agency charged with providing humanitarian aid to countries overseas, with dozens of senior officials put on leave, thousands of contractors laid off, and a sweeping freeze imposed on billions of dollars in foreign assistance. Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the pause on foreign assistance Thursday, saying the US government is not a charity. Aid organisations say the funding freeze and deep confusion over what US-funded programmes must stop work as a result has left them agonizing over whether they could continue operating programmes such as those providing round-the-clock nutritional support to extremely malnourished infants and children, knowing that closing the doors means that many of those children would die. Current and former officials at the State Department and the US Agency for International Development say staffers were invited to submit requests to exempt certain programs from the foreign aid freeze, which ...

Birthright citizenship was for slaves' children, not global migrants: Trump

President Donald Trump has said that birthright citizenship was primarily intended for the children of slaves and not for the whole world to "come in and pile" into the US. On the very first day of his inauguration, Trump issued an executive order against birthright citizenship, which was struck down by a federal court in Seattle the next day. Trump has said that he would appeal against it. On Thursday, he exuded confidence that the Supreme Court would rule in his favour. Birthright citizenship was, if you look back when this was passed and made, that was meant for the children of slaves. This was not meant for the whole world to come in and pile into the United States of America, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House. Everybody coming in, and totally unqualified people with perhaps unqualified children. This wasn't meant for that," he said. Asserting that it was meant for the children of slaves," he said it was a "very good and noble" thing to do. "I'm in fa

Marco Rubio approves some foreign aid waivers to Trump's spending halt

Rubio had provided waivers for food assistance as well as some salaries and administrative expenses

Trump signs order aimed at curtailing gender transitions for those under 19

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at curtailing gender transitions for people under age 19. It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called 'transition' of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures, Trump said in a statement. It's the latest push by Trump to reverse policies set by the Biden administration to protect transgender people and their care. On Monday, Trump directed the Pentagon to conduct a review that is likely to lead to them being barred from military service. The order directs that federally-run insurance programmes, including TRICARE for military families and Medicaid, exclude coverage for such care, and calls on the Department of Justice to vigorously pursue litigation and legislation to oppose the practice.

US Justice Department fires employees involved in prosecutions of Trump

The Justice Department said it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signalling an early willingness to take action favourable to the president's personal interests. The abrupt termination targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department and is consistent with the administration's determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president. Monday's norm-shattering move, which follows the reassignment of multiple senior career officials across divisions, was made even though rank-and-file prosecutors by tradition remain with the department across presidential administrations and are not punished by virtue of their involvement in sensitive investigations. The firings are effective immediately. Today, Acting Attorney .

Trump fills govt with billionaires after running on working-class message

President Donald Trump's brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the US economy's trajectory, could never afford to live in his Manhattan skyscraper or visit his club in south Florida. His second White House is looking a lot like the inside of Mar-a-Lago, with extremely wealthy Americans taking key roles in his administration. The world's richest man, Elon Musk, is overseeing a new Department of Government Efficiency. Billionaires or mega-millionaires are lined up to run the treasury, commerce, interior and education departments, NASA and the Small Business Administration, and fill key foreign posts. He's bringing in folks who have had great success in the private sector, said Debbie Dooley, an early 2015 Trump supporter and onetime national organizer in the anti-establishment Tea Party movement. If you need to have brain surgery, you want the proven brain surgeons. Others raise ...

56 US senior officials put on leave, citing resistance to Trump orders

At least 56 senior officials in the top US aid and development agency were placed on leave Monday amid an investigation into an alleged effort to thwart President Donald Trump's orders. A current official and a former official at the US Agency for International Development confirmed the reason given for the move Monday. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Several hundred contractors based in Washington and elsewhere also were laid off, the officials said. It follows Trump's executive order last week that directed a sweeping 90-day pause on most US foreign assistance disbursed through the State Department. As a result of the freeze, thousands of US-funded humanitarian, development and security programmes worldwide had stopped work or were preparing to do so. Without funds to pay staff, aid organizations were laying off hundreds of employees. An internal USAID notice sent late Monday and obtained by The Associated Press said new acting administrator Jason Gray

Kristi Noem voted as US homeland security secretary in new Trump govt

The installation of a longtime Trump ally at the helm of an agency is poised to play a central role in the president's promised immigration crackdown

Trump Inauguration highlights: Trump signs order for US to exit WHO, withdraws from Paris Accords

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TikTok's return in US comes with scrutiny over reach of Trump's powers

There are also questions about whether the extension would be legal once the ban kicked in on Sunday

Trump's inauguration ceremony on Monday to be the coldest in recent history

The National Weather Service of the US is warning of dangerously low wind chills, particularly in the morning when temperatures could be reduced drastically

Trump shakes up global politics a month before taking charge at White House

His trade threats helped set off a cabinet crisis in Canada that has Prime Minister Justin Trudeau teetering

Trump names immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America

President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he's picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world. Lake, an immigration hard-liner, was a television news anchor in Phoenix for nearly three decades until she left in 2021 after making a series of controversial statements on social media, including sharing COVID-19 misinformation during the pandemic. She launched her political career a short time later, quickly building a loyal following and national profile as she sparred with journalists and echoed Trump in her sharp criticism of what she called the fake news. She endeared herself to Trump through her dogmatic commitment to the falsehood that both she and Trump were the victims of election fraud. She has never acknowledged her defeat in the 2022 gubernatorial race and lost her Senate

Trump names Andrew Ferguson head of FTC, Guilfoyle as Ambassador to Greece

President-elect Donald Trump has named Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the Federal Trade Commission. He will replace Lina Khan, who became a lightning rod for Wall Street and Silicon Valley by blocking billions of dollars' worth of corporate acquisitions and suing Amazon and Meta while alleging anticompetitive behaviour. It was one of several evening announcements Trump made on Tuesday via his social media platform, including that he was naming Kimberly Guilfoyle as Ambassador to Greece, a longtime supporter who was engaged to his son Don Jr., and ally and former inaugural chairman Tom Barrack as Ambassador to Turkey. Ferguson is already one of the FTC's five commissioners, which is currently made up of three Democrats and two Republicans. Andrew has a proven record of standing up to Big Tech censorship, and protecting Freedom of Speech in our Great Country, Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, Andrew will be the most America First, and pro-innovation FTC Chair in our Country'

Big cheques, big roles: Major Trump donors bag key federal positions

The biggest donor by far for the entire election cycle, Elon Mus, poured $75 million into the pro, Trump super political action committee