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DOGE attempted to assign team to US nonprofit group Vera Institute of Justice

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. Department of Government Efficiency attempted to place a team with independent nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice, the nonprofit said, marking a further expansion of the cost-cutting agency’s move to exercise control over non-governmental groups. KEY QUOTES “DOGE staffers ...
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Students sue US Defense Department schools for book removals

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A dozen students in U.S. Defense Department schools sued the department and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday for book removals and curriculum changes following executive orders from President Donald Trump, an advocacy group said. The ...
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From Harvard to Musk, law firm Quinn Emanuel juggles Trump’s friends and foes

By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Harvard University has turned to Elon Musk’s longtime law firm, Quinn Emanuel, and a pair of Washington insiders with strong Republican credentials for its multibillion-dollar fight with the Trump administration over research funding. Harvard rejected the White House’s demands to overhaul its ...
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Trump says he plans stipends as part of self-deportation program

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Tuesday that he planned to roll out a new program offering money for immigrants in the country illegally to leave voluntarily. Trump said such a “self-deportation program” would include some financial assistance and ...
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US judge blocks Trump’s freeze on climate, infrastructure grants

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday from freezing billions of dollars in grants Congress authorized under two signature climate investment and infrastructure laws of his Democratic predecessor, former President Joe Biden. U.S. District ...
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Biden re-emerges to defend Social Security as Trump cuts agency staff

By Tim Reid (Reuters) -Democratic former President Joe Biden on Tuesday made his first major speech since leaving the White House in January, defending the Social Security Administration as the Trump administration cuts agency staff and shutters some of its offices. Biden’s speech in Chicago to ...
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Biden reemerges to defend Social Security as Trump cuts agency staff

By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday made his first major speech since leaving the White House in January, defending the Social Security Administration as the Trump administration cuts agency staff and shutters some ...
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Over 22,000 IRS workers take Trump’s latest buyout offer, agency sources say

By Nathan Layne and Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 22,000 employees at the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service have accepted the Trump administration’s latest buyout offer, two agency sources said on Tuesday. The move this month, called a deferred resignation program, ...
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Law students sue US civil rights agency over crackdown on law-firm DEI policies

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Three law students on Tuesday sued a U.S. civil rights agency, claiming that its probe into diversity policies at 20 large law firms is illegal and could expose the personal information of lawyers and job applicants. The ...
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Trump signs healthcare executive order that includes a win for pharma companies

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump directed his health department on Tuesday to work with Congress on revamping a law that allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, seeking to introduce a change the pharmaceutical industry has ...
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Labor board firings would leave Federal Reserve vulnerable, lawyers say

(Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s firing of Democrats from two federal labor boards leaves the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve vulnerable should his actions be allowed to stand, lawyers for the two fired individuals wrote on Tuesday in asking ...
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Judge temporarily blocks Trump from retaliating against firm that sued Fox News for election lies

A federal judge on Tuesday placed on hold much of Donald Trump’s order forbidding the federal government from doing business with anyone who hires the law firm Susman Godfrey, making it the fourth time a judge has found the president’s targeting of law firms ...
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