Year: 2025
February 22, 2025
Politics
Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg speaks to wounded Ukrainian troops during ‘emotional’ visit to military hospital
Keith Kellogg’s stop at the military hospital, during which he fielded questions and held individual discussions with wounded soldiers, ingratiated the US to Zelensky and brought Ukrainian officials closer...
February 22, 2025
Politics
Axed USAID employees smile as they haul personal belongings — with messages for Trump — out of DC office
“We are abandoning the world,” read a note scrawled on the box carrying one ex-federal employee’s belongings. “We are abandoning the world,” read a note scrawled on the box...
February 22, 2025
Politics
Trump fires Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday. President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ...
February 22, 2025
Politics
Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs largely blocked by judge
A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. A federal...
February 22, 2025
Politics
Acting ICE director demoted as Trump admin remains unsatisfied with pace of migrant arrests, deportations
Vitello will now oversee “all field and enforcement operations,” including “finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens,” according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson. Vitello will now oversee “all...
February 22, 2025
Politics
Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for one of the Trump administration’s remaining steps in its dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. A federal judge...
February 22, 2025
Congress
House, Senate GOP to begin undoing Biden regulations
Republican lawmakers in both chambers are set to begin voting soon on legislation to undo a range of Biden-era rules, teeing up their first major steps toward rolling back...
February 21, 2025
Politics
Trump envoy wraps Zelensky talks with rare earth deal close, but not done
An agreement that would give the US rights to rare earth minerals in Ukraine believed to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars was close to being done Friday...
February 21, 2025
Congress
‘Time is running out’: Lawmakers scramble for a deal to stop a shutdown
Short of a major breakthrough in the coming days, Congress is staring down the barrel of yet another crisis over government funding.
February 21, 2025
Politics
Trump floats merging ‘tremendous loser’ Postal Service with Commerce Department
"It's been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they've lost,'' Trump told reporters of USPS. "It's been just a tremendous loser for this country,...