advertisement

Log Out

Nation and World Politics

How Rubio’s trip abroad was overshadowed by foreign policy at home, from USAID to Trump's Gaza plan

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 06, 2025 3:58 pm - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his heart: immigration, counternarcotics and curbing Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere.
Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DC

By JOSH FUNK
Feb 06, 2025 11:25 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.
Justice Department sues Illinois, Chicago over immigration enforcement

Derek Hawkins
Feb 06, 2025 10:45 am - The Justice Department sued the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago on Thursday, accusing them of impeding the Trump administration’s immigration policies. The department seeks a court order to bar protections for immigrants that exist at the state and local level.
Musk uses his X ownership and White House position to push Trump priorities, intimidate detractors

By ALI SWENSON and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Feb 06, 2025 10:26 am - The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary dynamic — a White House adviser who's using one of the world’s most powerful information platforms to sell the government’s talking points while intimidating its detractors.
Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out ‘anti-Christian bias’ and urges ‘bring God back’

By AAMER MADHANI
Feb 06, 2025 7:46 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S., announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians.
Mexican border cities are in limbo as tariff threats spark fears of a recession

By MEGAN JANETSKY
Feb 06, 2025 7:27 am - As soon as the sun glints over miles of border fence dividing the United States and Mexico, the engines of cargo trucks packed with auto and computer parts roar to life along border bridges and bleary-eyed workers file into factories to assemble a multitude of products geared toward the U.S. market.
From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rain forest, USAID has big impact across the globe

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI
Feb 06, 2025 6:48 am - The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats and raised questions and concern about the influence billionaire ally Elon Musk wields over the federal government.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resign

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, COLLIN BINKLEY and BYRON TAU
Feb 06, 2025 6:44 am - Thousands of miles from Elon Musk’s office in the White House complex, a federal worker based in the Pacific Northwest is wondering whether to quit.
Trump signs executive order intended to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports

By WILL GRAVES
Feb 05, 2025 9:51 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women’s sports. The order, titled “Kee...
Congress is quiet as Trump, Musk take an ax to federal agencies

By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz and Liz Goodwin
Feb 05, 2025 6:36 pm - President Donald Trump’s administration launched one of its most brazen challenges yet to Congress’s authority this week when officials led by billionaire Elon Musk gutte...

Showing 2,311-2,320 of 4,258 previous next