Five former defense secretaries issued a scathing letter on Thursday assailing President Donald Trump for firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior officers.  In an open letter published Thursday, former Defense Secretaries James Mattis, Leon Panetta, Lloyd Austin, Chuck Hagel, and William Perry urged Congress to hold immediate hearings on Trump’s recent firings […]Read More

European leaders are weary of President Donald Trump’s push to secure a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, with the European Union’s top diplomat saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘doesn’t really want peace.’ Trump on Thursday said his administration had been in ‘very good talks with Russia,’ though he did not expand on whether […]Read More

European leaders are weary of President Donald Trump’s push to secure a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, with the European Union’s top diplomat saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘doesn’t really want peace.’ Trump on Thursday said his administration had been in ‘very good talks with Russia,’ though he did not expand on whether […]Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday is set to meet with President Donald Trump for the first time since he re-entered the White House to sign what could be a key minerals deal to help end Russia’s war.  Though some details of the agreement have emerged since the meeting was announced this week, the exact […]Read More

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Cali., is demanding that Elon Musk and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell stop sending mass emails to staffers.  In an open letter published Thursday, Padilla said several legislative branch offices and agencies have received mass emails from hr@opm.gov despite not being subject to personnel actions by […]Read More

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Cali., is demanding that Elon Musk and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell stop sending mass emails to staffers.  In an open letter published Thursday, Padilla said several legislative branch offices and agencies have received mass emails from hr@opm.gov despite not being subject to personnel actions by […]Read More

President Donald Trump was asked several times on Thursday about comments he made last week, when he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator,’ though he oftentimes either ignored the question or could not remember making the statement. Trump met with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday, when the two […]Read More

President Donald Trump was asked several times on Thursday about comments he made last week, when he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator,’ though he oftentimes either ignored the question or could not remember making the statement. Trump met with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday, when the two […]Read More

Andrea Lucas, the Trump administration’s acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), blasted The Washington Post and reporter Jeff Stein for spreading ‘fake news’ about DOGE cutting 90% of the EEOC’s workforce. Lucas explained that Stein, the chief economics reporter at The Washington Post, mixed up federal agencies that have nothing to do […]Read More

Andrea Lucas, the Trump administration’s acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), blasted The Washington Post and reporter Jeff Stein for spreading ‘fake news’ about DOGE cutting 90% of the EEOC’s workforce. Lucas explained that Stein, the chief economics reporter at The Washington Post, mixed up federal agencies that have nothing to do […]Read More