Nearly all government libraries staff on leave This week, libraries across the U.S. were told that their approved federal grants had been cancelled, according to the American Library Association. On Monday, nea
TikTok's powerful recommendation algorithm has been a driver of the app's popularity, and the platform said in court filings that the Chinese government opposes a divestment of the technology. Attempts to cut TikTok's operations from ByteDance would leave the platform "without access to the recomm...
The approach was on full display this week as White House communications director Steven Cheung used social media tomock an upcoming gatheringof anti-Trump Republicans by calling it “the Cuck Convention” on hisgovernment account. The word, which describes a man who like...
A Special Forces troop commander in Iraq who graduated at the top of his Harvard Law class and clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, Scotton wrote Bove:“No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of thr...
Now, in a major development, the Trump administration is offering severance packages to all federal employees who voluntarily leave. The goal? To rapidly shrink the U.S. government and cut costs. Just look what they are doing to USAID, laying off ~99% of its 10,000 employees. Whether you...
American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees comes as the new Trump administration and ally Elon Musk are targeting the U.S. Agency for International Development for eradication, freezing its funds and placing almost all of its workers on leav...
The reduction in force is the latest strategy Trump has employed — with the help of Musk — to reshape the federal government without Congress. Musk’s influence on the effort has been clear, down to the subject line of emails to employees that mimicked those received by eliminated employees...
On Monday the Federal Government released the2024 Closing the Gap report and 2025 implementation plan, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese telling the Parliament that the road ahead wasn’t easy, but that the nation couldn’t “turn our back” to entrenched disadvantage and violence affecting Indig...
The bottom line is that budget deficitsdon’t necessarily lead to inflation. But if a government is untrustworthy, then it will have trouble issuing debt to private investors. And that’s when politicians will have incentives to use the central bank as a printing press. ...
The freeze doesn’t apply to positions related to national security, immigration enforcement or public safety. Irie Sentner01/20/2025, 8:37pm ETPresident Donald Trump is imposing an across-the-board government hiring freeze and ordering federal workers to retur...