Politics

Hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in, he signed an executive order that aims to eliminate remote work among federal workers and get them back in the office full-time. More than 3 million Americans across the U.S. are federal workers, and about 15% live in the D.C. area, making the government our region’s largest…

President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon virtually every person charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was made at the last minute as the inauguration approached — and it surprised some of his supporters and aides.  “He is who he is,” a person who worked on Trump’s transition team told NBC…

Waves of people imprisoned for crimes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were released from D.C.’s jail to cheers late Tuesday, after President Donald Trump pardoned them on his first day back in office. Their release came as former officers who defended the Capitol and suffered career-ending injuries described their feelings of betrayal.…

Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website. The site — currently https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/ — now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his…

President Donald Trump ‘s administration is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave, and that agencies develop plans to lay them off, according to a memo Tuesday from the Office of Personnel Management. The memo follows an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping…

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 after a high-profile prosecution that highlighted the role of the internet in illegal markets. Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media website,…

After his win in the presidential election, Donald Trump told “Time” magazine that he was still considering pardoning his supporters who were involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, but he was particularly eyeing those who were charged with “non-violent” crimes. “I’m going to do case-by-case, and if they were non-violent, I…

President Donald Trump followed through on several actions that he pledged to take on his first day in office, but he still has some major items left on the to-do list he made for himself during the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump signed 46 executive orders and presidential actions on his first day back in the White…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended the pardons and commutations of roughly 1,500 defendants charged in crimes connected to the Jan. 6 attack, including some convicted of assaulting police officers. Trump, in one of the first presidential acts of his second term, commuted the sentences of 14 prisoners and pardoned all others convicted of offenses related to the 2021…

Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that were expected to target major sanctuary cities immediately after President Donald Trump’s inauguration largely failed to materialize as of Tuesday evening.  But after Trump signed a raft of executive orders relating to border security on his first day in office, the administration began setting groundwork for further immigration actions.  The Department of…