Politics

Health and Human Services employees were offered voluntary buyouts to resign from their jobs on Friday night, according to a person who received the email and an administration official. The agency’s approximately 80,000 employees received an unsigned email Friday night offering them a “voluntary separation incentive payment,” with a deadline to respond set for Friday,…

The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources familiar with the practice. The department’s plans to perform these tests was first reported by Bloomberg Government. A spokesperson for DHS did not immediately respond to a request…

House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major confrontation with Democrats over the contours of government spending. The 99-page bill would provide a slight boost to defense programs while trimming nondefense programs below 2024…

Pro-Palestinian activists said Saturday they have vandalized one of U.S. President Donald Trump‘s golf resorts in Scotland in response to his proposal to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population. Activists targeted Trump’s Turnberry golf course and hotel in southwest Scotland overnight, painting “Gaza Is Not For Sale” in giant letters on the lawn…

Starlink, the satellite internet service controlled by billionaire Elon Musk and his rocket company SpaceX, is expanding its footprint in the federal government weeks after the billionaire began slashing the federal workforce and agency budgets under President Donald Trump’s direction, NBC News reported. Multiple federal agencies are exploring the idea of adopting SpaceX’s Starlink for…

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods, coming on the heels of his taunting threats to make the country the 51st U.S. state, are eroding the inherent politeness of Americans’ northern neighbors and rallying them around their own flag. Canadians are removing American liquor and California wines from their store shelves. They’re pulling back on future visits to the U.S.…

President Donald Trump and his allies have begun suggesting that some economic pain could be ahead for Americans, as the administration carries out plans to slap tariffs on billions of dollars of goods coming into the U.S. and fire thousands of federal workers across the country.  Trump warned Americans in his speech to Congress this week to expect a…

President Donald Trump created a task force Friday to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe’s premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when his on-again, off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent. “I think it’s going to make it more exciting,” Trump said of playing the…

Los Angeles LGBTQ+ advocates responded Thursday to comments made by California Gov. Gavin Newsom telling conservative commentator Charlie Kirk that it is unfair for trans female athletes to be competing in women’s sports.  Los Angeles LGBT Center CEO Joe Hollendoner said in a statement that his organization is “outraged” by the comments.  “Newsom is parroting…

The Trump Organization sued Capital One bank in Florida for closing hundreds of the company’s accounts after Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The suit alleges that Capital One “‘de-banked’ Plaintiffs’ Accounts because Capital One believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so.” The bank told CNBC, “Capital One has…