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Judge largely blocks Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs

By LEA SKENE and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Feb 21, 2025 7:44 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting di...
A judge ordered foreign aid to resume. Aid groups say it’s not happening.

By Annie Gowen
Feb 21, 2025 4:33 pm - Despite a federal judge’s order for U.S. foreign aid to resume, humanitarian groups said this week that global response efforts to needy countries are in chaos, with mill...
US envoy praises Zelenskyy after Trump’s censure of the Ukrainian leader

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Feb 21, 2025 3:50 pm - KYIV, Ukraine — President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said on Friday that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodym...
LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Feb 21, 2025 2:51 pm - Six weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential fire and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall over responsibility for the devastation.
Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Feb 21, 2025 11:17 am - A pair of court orders have had only limited effect in slowing the Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and have left some USAID workers stationed worldwide in precarious situations, staffers assert.
IRS layoffs could hurt revenue collection and foil efforts to go after rich tax dodgers, experts say

By Fatima Hussein
Feb 21, 2025 10:54 am - WASHINGTON — The layoffs of roughly 7,000 IRS probationary workers beginning this week likely will mean the end of the agency's plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers a...
Netanyahu decries release of wrong body as a ceasefire violation. Hamas pledges to investigate

By AREEJ HAZBOUN
Feb 21, 2025 7:51 am - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement after a body that Hamas released as part of the deal was found to not be that of an Israeli mother of two young boys, as the militants had promised.
Senate Republicans approve budget framework, pushing past Democratic objections after all-night vote

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and MATT BROWN
Feb 21, 2025 7:29 am - Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage early Friday, chugging through an all-night session and Democratic opposition in a step toward unleashing money the Trump administration says it needs for mass deportations and border security that top their agenda.
These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired.

By Hannah Natanson
Feb 20, 2025 8:47 pm - Dave Elmstrom knew what he would do when the Trump administration’s resignation offer, titled “Fork in the Road,” landed in his inbox: take it. Elmstrom, a probationary e...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say

By Jacob Bogage
Feb 20, 2025 7:38 pm - President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially thro...

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