The U.S. government sent buyout offers to the employees of at least four U.S. intelligence agencies in addition to the CIA as President Donald Trump's drive to shrink America's federal workforce gathered steam on Wednesday. The four additional agencies whose personnel have received buyout offers are the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Security Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, spokespeople at those agencies said. The Central Intelligence Agency late on Tuesday said its workforce received buyout offers in a move aimed at aligning the country's premier spy service with the goals of its new director, John Ratcliffe.
A Trump-appointed Education Department official confirmed in a meeting this week that DOGE is already probing the agency, two staffers said.
They cast his idea to own and rebuild the strip as a negotiating ploy Wednesday, while walking back key details.
President Donald Trump and his supporters have heralded his use of tariff threats to extract concessions on drug trafficking and border security from Canada and Mexico.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the Trump administration was reaching out to U.S. Agency for International Development missions overseas to identify and designate programs that will be exempted from the sweeping stop-work orders. Late on Monday, the administration said it would put on leave all directly hired employees of USAID globally and recall thousands of personnel working overseas, after President Donald Trump ordered a broad freeze on most U.S. foreign aid last month. Trump and his aides say they want to ensure that billions of dollars in U.S. assistance, including humanitarian aid distributed around the world, is aligned with his "America First" policy.
President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, will host a weekend show on Fox News, the news channel announced Wednesday.
The U.S. Military Academy has disbanded a dozen West Point cadet clubs centered on ethnicity, gender, race and sexuality in response to the Trump administration's push to eliminate diversity programs throughout government. The famed military academy in New York issued a memo Tuesday shutting down groups including the Asian-Pacific Forum Club, Latin Cultural Club, National Society of Black Engineers Club and Society of Women Engineers Club in order to adhere to recent guidance from the Army and Defense Department. It also shut down the Corbin Forum, a decades-old leadership club for female cadets, and Spectrum, a gay-straight alliance.
The federal office that enforces civil rights at schools across the U.S. has been ordered to prioritize complaints of antisemitism above all else as it molds to President Donald Trump’s agenda, raising fears that other rights violations will go unpunished. Trump’s new leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights told staff this week they will be expected to aggressively pursue complaints involving antisemitism and hew closely to Trump’s wishes, according to sources who were on the call with Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights.
Fast fashion from retailers like Shein and Temu coud become more expensive under Trump's tariffs.
Republicans in a Georgia Senate committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would force the city of Atlanta to allow the Fulton County sheriff to use the city jail for no more than the cost of maintaining it. Supporters of the proposal said it would help relieve pressure on the county jail, which was the subject of a federal civil rights investigation that found detainees were living in unsanitary and dangerous conditions in violation of their constitutional rights. Fulton County and Sheriff Pat Labat last month entered a court-enforceable agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to improve the conditions in county lockups.
Evangelical and other Christian charities have not been spared the cuts
The email system used by Elon Musk and his team to contact federal employees operates "entirely on government computers" , OPM officials said.
The U.S. Treasury's payment system won't be touched by Elon Musk's government efficiency team, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business on Wednesday, adding that any decisions to stop payments would be made by other agencies. The Treasury on Tuesday said Musk's Department of Government Efficiency had been granted "read-only access" to its payment system codes but denied that this cut off any government payments including for Social Security or Medicare.
Ford Motor Co. is forecasting weaker earnings growth for this year and further losses in its electric vehicles business as it works to control costs. The automaker said Wednesday that it expects its full-year adjusted pretax income to range between $7 billion and $8.5 billion. The company's adjusted pretax income was $10.2 billion in 2024.
Newly released data from ground-based radar came out Tuesday suggesting an Army helicopter was higher than it was supposed to be when it collided with American Airlines Flight 5342 a week ago, killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft.
Filing taxes in the US is a more complicated and time-consuming process than in many other countries. There are myriad reasons.
(Reuters) -Argentina's presidential office said on Wednesday that President Javier Milei had taken the decision to ban gender change treatments and surgeries for minors, as well as impose limits on trans women being housed inside women's prisons. In a press conference, presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said the ban would include hormone therapy and followed similar pushbacks in legislation on trans rights in countries such as the UK, Sweden, Finland and the United States, and sought to protect children's mental health. The announcement comes days after thousands of Argentines protested in favor of LGBT+ rights after Milei made a speech in Davos, Switzerland, in which he questioned "feminism, diversity, inclusion, abortion, environmentalism and gender ideology", calling progressive policies a "cancer that must be extirpated."
Foodborne illness costs Americans $75 billion annually in premature deaths, medical care and lost productivity, study finds.
Argentina’s president has signed a decree banning gender-affirming care for people under age 18, a presidential spokesperson said Wednesday. The announcement comes days after a massive mobilization of the LGBTQ+ collective in repudiation of President Javier Milei’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, during which he slammed “wokeism,” feminism and referred to homosexuals as “pedophiles." Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni in a statement to the press announced the repeal of a 2012 gender identity law provision allowing such practices with parental or guardian consent.
The FBI raided a pawn shop in New York City’s Diamond District and charged two men with conspiring to receive stolen goods in connection with a spate of burglaries, authorities said Tuesday, including one reportedly targeting NFL star Joe Burrow’s home.
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