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IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden is out as acting commissioner just days after getting the job

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Apr 18, 2025 7:26 pm - WASHINGTON — Just days after being promoted to acting IRS commissioner, the whistleblower who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes is out of ...
Trump moves to invoke Schedule F to make it easier to fire some federal workers

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT
Apr 18, 2025 7:20 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has begun making one of the controversial personnel changes for government employees that was spelled out in the conservative Project ...
Trump ready to ‘move on’ from Ukraine peace talks if no progress, Rubio says

By Adam Taylor, Robyn Dixon and Ellen Francis
Apr 18, 2025 7:15 pm - PARIS — President Donald Trump is ready to “move on” from peace talks between Ukraine and Russia if there is no progress “within days,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio tol...
DOJ questions Glenview science journal about bias, triggering free speech concerns

By Mark Johnson
Apr 18, 2025 5:45 pm - Amid brewing conflict between scientists and the administration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent an unusual letter this week...
Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

By MICHELLE R. SMITH
Apr 18, 2025 3:42 pm - PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health...
Social Security rescinding its plan to end phone-based filing called a win for Illinois seniors

By Isabella Schoonover and Medill Illinois News Bureau
Apr 18, 2025 2:06 pm - The Illinois chapter of AARP played a role in the Trump administration reversing itself and allowing Social Security beneficiaries to have the option of filing for benefits over the phone.
Judge pauses Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Apr 18, 2025 11:18 am - A federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump's administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled Friday that the bureau can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees.
The US has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more

By JOSH FUNK
Apr 18, 2025 10:03 am - America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices.
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

By YOLANDA MAGAÑA and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Apr 17, 2025 9:05 pm - SAN SALVADOR — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday in El Salvador with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite...
Nearly 90% of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut as Trump’s government downsizing continues

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Apr 17, 2025 7:59 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is drastically shrinking the workforce and mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, eviscerating an agency created after t...

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