Politics

The Trump administration is placing U.S. Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential.

Homeland Security shipped its first planeload of illegal immigrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, with officials saying the plane carried members of Venezuela’s vicious Tren de Aragua gang.

The Senate voted 54-46 on Tuesday, largely along party lines, to confirm Pam Bondi as Attorney General of the Department of Justice.

President Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. could take over Gaza and remove Palestinians from the area without ruling out the possibility of sending American troops to the region, saying it could become “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heaped praise on President Trump at a press conference Tuesday, saying he’s done more for the Jewish state than any other U.S. president in history.

President Trump proposed Tuesday that the U.S. will “take over the Gaza strip [and] own it.”

Things have changed since President Trump’s team took over at the Department of Education, and that includes the Free Application for Federal Student Aid rollout.

Japan would deal a massive blow to the universal principle of religious freedom, could deeply damage its relationship with the U.S. and would hand a major win to communist China if it follows through with an effort to punish the Unification Church, warned former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Chances of the Senate voting down any of President Trump’s Cabinet-level nominees have all but evaporated as initially skeptical Republicans are falling in line with his most unconventional picks.

President Trump plans to shrink the size of government includes abolishing the Education Department, which spends $80 billion a year as student test scores plunge.

The Trump administration’s federal worker buyout is showing mixed results and potential unintended consequences.

President Trump said Tuesday that Palestinians have “no alternative” but to leave Gaza and find a new place for permanent relocation.

President Trump’s federal worker buyout may backfire in some cases, giving employees who were going to quit anyway months of extra pay.

The Senate may steamroll the House on a budget blueprint needed to formally begin the legislative process for advancing much of President Trump’s agenda if Republicans in the lower chamber can’t come together on a plan.

President Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House Tuesday, his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader since he started his second term.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries laid out four steps Tuesday for Democrats to fight against the agendas of President Trump and congressional Republicans.

Two groups of FBI agents involved in investigating cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and the classified documents case against President Trump sued the Justice Department on Tuesday, alleging attempted retaliation for their roles.

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Relief and Works Agency for the second time.

Republicans are planning votes to repeal at least 10 regulations implemented late in President Biden’s term, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday.

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will restore his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran in a bid to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and drive its oil exports down to zero.