APRIL 26, 2025
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has moved at breakneck speed since the billionaire first mused about it in August 2024, shortly after endorsing Donald Trump for president. It is not popular with voters, according to polling. (AP)
What was first sold to the American people as a cost-cutting mission to “eliminate waste” and save taxpayer money, Elon Musk’s...
APRIL 26, 2025
The pope’s funeral. - Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
For several years when I was a boy, I was the organist at a small Catholic church where I played two and sometimes three Masses a week. The architecture was modern, post-Vatican II, with the organ set to the side of the altar. From there, you could see both the priest...
APRIL 26, 2025
Three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the early hours of Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors, the family’s lawyer said.
According to their lawyers, both families were...
APRIL 26, 2025
The Oversight Committee expects to vote next week on that plan and other workforce changes.
Federal employee pension benefits are set to be pared back in Republicans’ giant tax and spending package working its way through the US House, another slap at a workforce roiled by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts.
The proposal, which House Oversight Committee and Government Reform...
APRIL 26, 2025
The Prince made brief small talk with multiple world leaders at the Pope’s funeral on Saturday
The Prince of Wales paid his respects to the Pope in his most solemn and significant duty on the world stage to date.
The Prince, attending his first international funeral as a representative of the King, took a moment’s silence in front of Pope Francis’s coffin, bowing...
APRIL 25, 2025
Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday in Jaipur, India. - anushree fadnavis/Reuters
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials plan to conduct staggered trade negotiations using a new template that sets common terms for many of the talks, according to people familiar with the plans.
In an attempt to streamline talks over President Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs, officials plan to use a framework prepared by...
APRIL 25, 2025
China told the White House on Friday to quit spreading lies about trade negotiations. The Chinese foreign ministry said there are no talks happening, no meetings planned, and no communication underway with the US on tariffs.
This came after President Donald Trump told reporters that the two countries were having discussions. Beijing called that false and told him...
APRIL 25, 2025
The cast of "The Conners" on the final episode Wednesday.
ABC broadcast the series finale of “The Conners” on Wednesday, closing out character arcs that began more than 36 years ago with “Roseanne.” When the first run of Roseanne Barr’s eponymous working-class comedy premiered on ABC in 1988, it stood in stark contrast to the prime-time glamour of “Dallas”...
APRIL 25, 2025
Education International Students. - Ross D. Franklin
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The U.S. government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the country after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, federal officials said Friday.
The records in a federal student database maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been terminated in recent weeks. Judges across...
APRIL 25, 2025
Switzerland US Tariffs. - Julia Nikhinson
GENEVA — The Swiss president says Switzerland is among 15 countries with which the United States plans to conduct “privileged” negotiations to help reach a deal in the wake of sweeping U.S. tariffs on dozens of countries that have shaken global markets.
Karin Keller-Sutter, in an interview with broadcaster SRF published Friday, said she...
