General Politics

Washington — The Office of Personnel Management issued revised guidance to federal agencies Tuesday regarding the firing of probationary workers amid President Trump's efforts to shrink the size of the government, informing department leaders that they do not have to take any "specific performance-based actions" regarding those employees.

The revised memo from Charles Ezell, the acting director of OPM, comes after a federal judge ruled last week that the Trump administration's mass firings of probationary workers, who generally have been in their...

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says that when it comes to implementing President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, Florida is "rocking and rolling."

Florida's two-term conservative governor used a portion of his State of the State address on Tuesday to spotlight a sweeping package of immigration laws passed a few weeks ago during a special session of the GOP-dominated legislature.

"We are convening for the regular legislative session having already enacted groundbreaking legislation to fulfill the historic mission of delivering on...

Some Democratic lawmakers will boycott President Donald Trump’s address Tuesday night before a joint session of Congress.

Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, a state hit hard by federal firings, said he has never missed a speech but that the challenges demand “more than sitting in a chamber” listening as if Trump were not “unleashing chaos and cruelty on their lives.”

“These are not normal times,” Connolly said.

Also in Northern Virginia, Rep. Don Beyer, said he’d be rallying this week with federal workers and contractors.

“I will choose our...

According to the police department, Bennett used an old cell phone that could still be used to call 911 in emergencies.

Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., encouraged House Republicans to do more virtual events over in-person town halls, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting.

The Hong Kong-based conglomerate that operates ports near the Panama Canal has agreed to sell shares of its units that operate the ports to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., after President Donald Trump alleged Chinese interference with the operations of the critical shipping lane.

In a filing, CK Hutchison Holding said Tuesday that it would sell all shares in Hutchison Port Holdings and all shares in Hutchison Port Group Holdings. The two units hold 80% of the Hutchison Ports group that operates 43 ports in 23 countries, including two of the...

The U.S. Supreme Court looked skeptically Tuesday at Mexico's efforts to hold American gunmakers legally responsible for their weapons being smuggled in and contributing to that country's drug cartel violence.

In a brisk 90-minute oral argument, the justices debated whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States is the "proximate cause" of alleged injuries to the Mexican government and its people, by somehow knowingly aiding and abetting illegal sales of guns to traffickers across the border.

The U.S. neighbor to the south, which...

The former chairwoman of a little-known agency that hears appeals by fired or disciplined federal government employees has been ordered reinstated to her position by a federal judge.

Cathy Harris, a Democrat who led the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) until she was fired by President Donald Trump on Feb. 10, has been put back in her position after a judge issued a permanent injunction.

Harris had filed an appeal the day after her sacking, arguing that Trump and other federal officials did not have the authority to terminate her and that an...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday said her agency "will not be deterred" by leaks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid was leaked ahead of time — the latest leak to dog the agency.

"We will not be deterred by leaks. If you come to this country and break our laws, we will hunt you down," Noem said on X.

She pointed to what she said was a successful operation that hauled in MS-13 and 18th Street gang members, as well as sex criminals.

NEW HOUSE REPORT EXPOSES HOW CONTROVERSIAL ‘AMNESTY’ PROGRAM EXPLODED UNDER...

Canada has imposed its own retaliatory tariffs, which will remain in place until the US reverses course.

Thirty-two people were shipwrecked on a rig in the Mediterranean with no food or water, an NGO has said.

Pope Francis is off mechanical breathing intervention and is alert, the Vatican's latest update says.

It comes after the deputy prime minister tried to ban lawmakers from calling the country Aotearoa in parliament.

It's the first time that a case has gone to court since a euthanasia law was introduced in Spain in 2021.

The "9-5" singer met Dean outside a laundromat on the first day she arrived in Nashville as an 18-year-old aspiring singer.