About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.
An estimated 466 workers at the Education Department have been fired since Friday, and the breadth and depth of those cuts appeared to touch nearly all aspects of an agency that President Trump has vowed to eliminate.
President Trump’s threats to provide the missiles to Ukraine, whether he follows through on them or not, are a sign of his growing frustration with Moscow.
The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.
Participants in the protests will include (from left, first row), Laura Raicovich and Jenny Polak; (second row) Kris Grey, Dread Scott, Lynn Nottage and Ras Dia; (third row) Julia Jordan, Shanti Avirgan, Annie Dorsen, Tony Gerber, Miguel Luciano, Jed Rothstein and Cassils; (fourth row) Accra Shepp, Hari Kunzru, Larry Krone and Daniel Bejar.
The panel’s Republican chairman, Representative Jim Jordan, accused the former special counsel of “prosecutorial misconduct and constitutional abuses.”
Jack Smith in Washington in 2023. He recently gave an interview, his first extended public remarks since resigning from the Justice Department in January.
The president said he would release a list of the cuts on Friday. “We are closing up Democrat programs that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again,” he added.
The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.
D’Angelo onstage at Bonnaroo in 2012. He could be a one-man studio band in the mold of Prince and Stevie Wonder, or multitrack himself to simulate the collective yowl and cackle of Funkadelic or Sly & the Family Stone.
The departures of Todd Gilbert and his deputy in the Western District of Virginia show the pressure being brought on prosecutors to pursue the president’s perceived foes.
Todd Gilbert, a Republican, was a longtime legislator in Virginia until he was sworn in as the top prosecutor for the state’s western district in July.
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.
President Trump aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. The administration has not explained how a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea posed an imminent threat of armed attack that could prompt a right to use force in self-defense.
Ukraine’s security services said the mayor held Russian citizenship, which is forbidden, but he denied the accusation. Government opponents see it as part of a power grab.
The Little Elk solar project in Elkton, Md., is among those owned by CleanCapital, a company that develops and operates solar and battery storage projects around the country.
Sébastien Lecornu said the government was ready for “a new debate” on the issue, a major concession as he faces no-confidence votes that threaten to topple his government again this week.
President Trump and other leaders gathered on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where mediators successfully pushed for a deal between Hamas and Israel the previous week.
The Trump administration’s embrace of unproven or debunked theories about vaccines and Tylenol has left doctors fielding questions from worried parents.
LeVar Baxter, left, with his son Khalil, 21, who does not talk and cannot live independently. “I wanted to know if I had a gene that I’d passed on to Khalil,” he said.
President Trump has imposed 50 percent tariffs on most steel and aluminum coming into the United States, and some other countries have followed with steel levies of their own.
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