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Trump, Zelenskyy meet privately ahead of popes funeral

(ROME) -- President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met privately in Rome Saturday before attending the funeral for Pope Francis.White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told the press pool traveling with Trump that the two men had a "very productive session." More ...
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Maverick US House Republican Don Bacon considering retirement

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Don Bacon, one of the few Republicans in Congress willing to take positions independent of President Donald Trump, said on Friday that he is considering retiring from office when his current two-year term expires.  Bacon, 61, has been elected ...
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Virginia GOP candidate for lieutenant governor says he won’t exit race despite governor’s push

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican John Reid said Friday he will continue his campaign to be Virginia’s lieutenant governor and denied he had anything to do with a social media account containing sexually explicit photos that had prompted GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin to call ...
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DOGE orders AmeriCorps to cancel $400 million in grants, Washington Post reports

(Reuters) -Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has ordered the cancellation of around $400 million in grants doled out by AmeriCorps, the federal government’s national service and volunteering agency, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing three sources with knowledge of the matter. The ...
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Trump DOJ rescinds Biden-era protections for news media

(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department has rescinded a policy implemented during the Biden administration that restricted prosecutors from seizing reporters' records in criminal investigations, according to an internal memo obtained by ABC News.The move could signal a broader effort by Trump-appointed leadership to more ...
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FACT FOCUS: Trump credited with rising military recruitment. Growth started before his reelection

U.S. military recruitment has made a comeback following a downturn caused primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic, low unemployment and stiff competition from the private sector. Posts circulating widely on social media give President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth credit for this increase, a ...
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US FTC offers employees financial incentives to quit

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission offered employees financial incentives on Friday to leave the agency, though some may be turned down if their departure would hurt the agency’s work enforcing consumer protection and antitrust laws, according to an internal email seen ...
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US judge skeptical about Trump defense of Education Department layoffs

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned a lawyer from President Donald Trump’s Justice Department who was defending the administration’s move to terminate more than 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees against a challenge by ...
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NASA administrator was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and ...
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US Education Dept investigates UC Berkeley’s foreign funding disclosures

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley’s foreign funding disclosures, the department said on Friday. The investigation, which is seeking records relating to foreign sources of funding to the university, was initiated after a review found Berkeley’s ...
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US judge blocks Trump from ending union bargaining for many federal workers

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain over working conditions. Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C., blocked ...
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Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and court filings. Isaacman is a billionaire ...
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