A federal agency is seeking disciplinary action against former Federal Emergency Management Agency worker who directed workers helping hurricane survivors to avoid homes with yard signs supporting President Donald Trump, according to a complaint filed Tuesday. The complaint with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board was filed by the Office of Special Counsel, whose leader was fired last week by Trump and reinstated by a federal judge on Monday after he sued the Republican president. The Office of Special Counsel found the former FEMA worker, Marn'i Washington, violated the Hatch Act, which restricts the partisan political activities of government workers, through her actions while in Florida in October helping survivors of Hurricane Milton.
New Yorkers aren't known for mincing words - a fact on full display Tuesday after Mayor Eric Adams announced the DOJ directive to drop federal charges against him.
Three of the men charged with murder in the death of D’Vontaye Mitchell, who was pinned face down on the ground outside a Milwaukee hotel last year, are seeking plea deals in the case.
The adult son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges in connection with a crash out of a North Dakota hospital's ambulance bay that preceded a chase and collision resulting in the death of a sheriff's deputy. Ian Cramer, who turns 44 Wednesday, pleaded guilty to felony charges of theft, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. Cramer is already serving a 28-year prison sentence for homicide and other charges to which he earlier pleaded guilty in connection with the ensuing chase and crash on Dec. 6, 2023, that killed 53-year-old Mercer County Sheriff's Deputy Paul Martin.
Is it an honor or a cynical end run? When it comes to the former — and apparently future — Fort Bragg, that’s in the eye of the beholder. Initially named after Southern Gen. Braxton Bragg, the post was stripped of the name in 2023 amid a drive to remove symbols of the Confederacy from public spaces.
Investors are braced for more Trump tariffs as focus turns to inflation and Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Senate testimony.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday ruled that a Turkish author and her son can be extradited to Turkey to face charges that he caused a reckless, fatal car crash in Istanbul and then fled the country with the help of his mother. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell in Boston rejected arguments that Turkish novelist and poet Eylem Tok and her 17-year-old son, Timur Cihantimur, had not been charged with extraditable offenses, clearing the way for the U.S. State Department to consider turning them over. Further litigation is likely and could further delay their extradition, which Turkey has been pursuing since their arrest in June as the mother and son were about to tour a private school in Boston.
Florida lawmakers on Tuesday took a major step toward settling a weekslong standoff between term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans who control the Statehouse, as they gaveled in another special session on immigration aimed at leveraging state and local resources to carry out President Donald Trump 's mass deportation agenda. DeSantis, who is widely expected to have presidential aspirations in 2028, has been locked in an unusual political tussle with Trump's allies in the Legislature, who have been pushing back on bills that could give the lame duck governor an edge on the president's signature issue.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his idea of exiling Palestinians and placing a rebuilt Gaza under "US authority" but faced pushback from visiting Jordanian King Abdullah II. "I reiterated Jordan’s steadfast position against the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is expected to visit the White House later this week, urged on Tuesday the reconstruction of Gaza "without displacing Palestinians."
The US Federal Reserve is in a strong position to weather the "highly uncertain" economic outlook, but its inflation fight will take time to win, a senior US central bank official said Tuesday.Williams warned that, despite the strong fundamentals, "the economic outlook remains highly uncertain, particularly around potential fiscal, trade, immigration, and regulatory policies," a passing reference to some of US President Donald Trump's policies.
Marcus Walker said the sexual abuse he experienced two decades ago as a teenager at an Illinois youth detention facility has haunted his life. The Illinois lawsuits are part of a wave of complaints against juvenile detention centers nationwide including in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Hampshire.
A former USPS worker in Charlotte and her two co-conspirators were sentenced for stealing $24 million worth of checks.
Pope Francis used "ordo amoris" to encourage compassion for all people. Vice President JD Vance used the ancient concept to defend deportations.
Canada, Mexico and the EU on Tuesday slammed US President Donald Trump's "unjustified" decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, which has raised fears of a broader trade war.In Monday's executive order, Trump said "all imports of aluminium articles and derivative aluminium articles from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Mexico, EU countries, and the UK" will be subject to additional tariffs.
Vice President JD Vance warned European allies that the White House would not accept regulations on artificial intelligence if they held back U.S. ambitions.
The FBI on Tuesday said it discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order last month to release thousands of files. The FBI said it's working to transfer the records to the National Archives and Records Administration to be included in the declassification process. The federal government in the early 1990s mandated that all documents related to the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination be housed in a single collection at the National Archives.
WASHINGTON — Jordan’s King Abdullah II said he reiterated Tuesday during a meeting with President Donald Trump his country's and the region's "steadfast opposition" to the president's plan to resettle millions of Palestinians out of Gaza.
Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. Representative with little intelligence experience, should be confirmed as the top U.S. spy by Wednesday morning, as Republicans line up behind a nominee once seen as among President Donald Trump's most controversial picks. The Senate voted 52-46, along party lines, on Monday on a procedural measure to limit debate on the nomination, clearing the way for the 100-member chamber to vote on Gabbard's confirmation to a position overseeing the 18-agency intelligence community. A vote to confirm Gabbard would be another victory for Trump's push to secure quick Senate approval for his nominees.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams thanked the Department of Justice for ordering the federal corruption charges filed against him be dropped, but admitted "many New Yorkers still question my character."
Here are some of the major themes emerging in early polls of Trump’s second term.
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