FEBRUARY 27, 2025
FILE PHOTO: A United States Postal Service (USPS) collection box is pictured in Washington, U.S., December 18, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Postal Service employees should ignore rumors and reports that President Donald Trump could unilaterally seize control of the agency, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in a video seen by Reuters on Thursday.
DeJoy told...
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
It comes amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn Canada into America’s ‘51st state’ - Patrick Doyle
A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.
Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their...
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the East Room at the White House, February 27, 2025 in Washington, D.C., U.S. Carl Court/Pool via REUTERS
SAN FRANCISCO - A California federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ordering the U.S. Department of Defense and other...
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
US Marine Band. - Karl Johnson
There is perhaps no band closer to the president’s ear than the U.S. Marine Band, long known as “The President’s Own.”
Founded in 1798 by an Act of Congress, it’s the nation’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization, with a stated, singular mission to “perform music for the President of the United States...
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Federal workers speak on doge layoffs, cuts.
The Social Security Administration eliminated its Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Social Security Administration said 140 workers in the Civil Rights Office were put on administrative leave.
Emotions were mixed as federal employees talked about President Donald Trump's executive orders and cuts made by the...
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Hiring senior level agency employees has been a common practice for one Fortune 500 federal government contractor for years.
But that practice could be changing, according to the CEO of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) — and she says companies like hers are wondering if hiring certain people fired by DOGE could hurt business.
It’s one more way that...
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Elon Musk speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Feb. 26. - Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX have benefited from government contracts and regulatory credits. Still, he is charged with slashing government spending and jobs, recusing himself when a conflict of interest is present. A reported $465 million loan...
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post. - Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Wednesday announced a “significant shift” to the publisher’s opinion page that led David Shipley, the paper’s editorial page editor, to leave the paper. The changes upended precedent and rattled a media company that...
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
President Trump Holds First Cabinet Meeting. - Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
President Donald Trump said approximately 1 million federal workers who did not respond to billionaire Elon Musk’s demand to explain their activities are at risk of losing their jobs.
“Those million people that haven’t responded to Elon, they are on the bubble,” the president told reporters on Wednesday during...
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw onstage during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Federal workers faced fresh uncertainty on Tuesday about their futures after Elon Musk gave them "another chance" to respond to his ultimatum that...
