The United Kingdom’s largest airport shut down Friday after being hit with a power outage due to an electrical fire. London’s Heathrow Airport will be closed until 11:59 p.m. local time Friday evening, officials said, after a fire erupted at an electrical substation supplying the airport with energy on Thursday. The effects on travel are […]
Thousands of probationary federal workers who were reinstated and immediately placed on administrative leave due to recent court orders are stuck in limbo, uncertain if they will ever return to their duties as agencies prepare for another round of cuts ordered by President Donald Trump. Two separate federal judges ordered the Trump administration to reinstate […]
President Donald Trump‘s executive order to begin shutting down the Department of Education is all but guaranteed to face several challenges in court after multiple critics decried the action as unconstitutional. Legally, only Congress can shut down the Education Department. It is unclear if the president has the necessary votes. Still, Trump’s order calls for […]
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military said Friday it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting. The seizure of the Republican Palace, surrounded by government ministries, represents a major symbolic victory for Sudan’s military against the paramilitary Rapid Support […]
Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of the Government Accountability Office also told a House oversight subcommittee that the government was defrauded of $233 billion to $521 billion per year between 2018 and 2022. Social welfare programs and pandemic emergency […]
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, then-White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci joined state and local health authorities to hold powerful sway over Americans’ daily affairs and quality of life. Across the country, the men and women issuing virus-related guidelines and mandates were appointed by the president, city mayors, or county governments — […]
Gas prices climbed for the third consecutive day this week, with the national average price for a gallon of regular gas at $3.129 on Friday, according to AAA.com. The latest price is five cents per gallon higher than Tuesday’s $3.078 fuel cost. The increases at the pumps come just days after President Donald Trump and […]
On March 11, the House Budget Committee dropped language from its bill to fund the federal government that would have added 20,000 Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, for the Afghan allies who sacrificed their safety to support our overseas mission. The SIV program remains the only chance of safety for many of the more than 128,000 Afghan principal […]
President Donald Trump announced plans to close the Department of Education on Thursday with an executive order, “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities.” “Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them,” read Trump’s directive. “Today, American reading and math […]
It was all smiles among President Donald Trump, criminal justice reform advocates, law enforcement representatives, and a bipartisan group of legislators in the Oval Office in 2018. Trump, who campaigned on law and order, was preparing to sign the First Step Act, one of the biggest criminal justice reform legislative bills in U.S. history. “This […]
