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Office of Special Counsel wants 45-day delay in Trump firings

The government's top cop for policing federal workers' rights has urged the Merit Systems Protection Board to hit pause on the Trump administration's attempt to fire some probationary workers, saying it appears the ousters are "impermissible."

February 25, 2025

Trump’s tally: 38,000 feds fired so far, 6,000 of them veterans

House Democrats have calculated that more than 38,000 federal workers have been canned so far as part of President Trump's early moves to remake the federal bureaucracy, and nearly 6,000 of them are veterans.

February 25, 2025

DHS sees best border numbers in 15 years

The Border Patrol saw its best single day in more than 15 years with just 200 illegal immigrants nabbed at the southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday.

February 24, 2025

Trump wins first round vs. AP in fight over ‘Gulf of America’

A federal judge declined Monday to order the White House to restore The Associated Press' special access to presidential news coverage, delivering the first round of the legal battle to President Trump.

February 24, 2025

ICE, Texas move against massive migrant settlement, Gov. Abbott says

Federal agents and Texas state troopers moved in on Colony Ridge, a major migrant settlement that sprang up in recent years and has become a magnet for new arrivals -- and sparked reports of rampant crime.

February 24, 2025

Judge rules against Homeland Security’s new policy allowing arrests at churches

A federal judge in Maryland ruled Monday that the Trump administration acted too hastily with its new policy unshackling immigration officers to make arrests anywhere, including churches, saying such actions would trample on the rights of churches and temples to conduct their services.

February 24, 2025

Sanctuary cities sue to stop Trump’s DOJ from prosecuting them

Two sanctuary cities in Massachusetts have sued President Trump and the Justice Department in an extraordinary lawsuit that asks a judge to block the feds from bringing criminal charges against city leaders.

February 24, 2025

DOJ: Associated Press doesn’t deserve ‘unfettered access’ to president

The Department of Justice on Monday defended President Trump's decision to kick The Associated Press out of the "pool" that covers the White House.

February 24, 2025

New York City to shut down notorious migrant shelter at Roosevelt Hotel

New York City's migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel, which had become a symbol of the Biden border crisis, will soon be shut down, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.

February 24, 2025

Judge blocks DOGE access to Education Department, federal personnel files

A federal judge in Maryland issued a temporary injunction Monday blocking the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing student loan systems at the Education Department and a broader set of personnel files at the Office of Personnel Management.

February 24, 2025

Supreme Court demurs on Trump’s first appeal over firing powers

The Supreme Court has rebuffed President Trump's initial attempt to expand his firing powers, as the first case involving the new administration's aggressive agenda reached the high court.

February 23, 2025

Trump on major losing streak on birthright citizenship

President Trump's deadline for denying automatic citizenship to illegal immigrants passed with barely a whimper last week as the policy remains snared in a web of court rulings -- all of them against the president.

February 23, 2025

New York City sues to force feds to give back $80 million in migrant money

New York filed a lawsuit Friday asking a judge to restore $80 million in migrant aid money that the Trump administration plucked out of the city's accounts earlier this month.

February 22, 2025

Judge says Musk’s DOGE can access federal employee data

A federal judge has refused to shut down the Department of Government Efficiency's access to human resources files of government employees, saying there was no "concrete evidence" that the DOGE was misusing the data right now.

February 21, 2025

Supreme Court rebuffs Trump’s attempt to oust special counsel — for now

The Supreme Court has ruled that one of the government agency leaders whom President Trump wants to fire can remain on the job for at least another week.

February 21, 2025

Judge releases hold on Trump’s plan to slash USAID

A federal judge lifted his order that had blocked President Trump from carrying out a mass shakeup at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

February 21, 2025

Trump removes acting ICE director as administration seeks to ramp up deportations

The administration has ousted the head of the government's deportation force, according to a new report that said President Trump was upset with the slow pace of deportations.

February 21, 2025

Catholic bishops lose first round to Trump in court battle over refugee money

A federal judge on Thursday rejected the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' request to turn back on the spigot of federal money the government formerly paid outside groups to help settle refugees.

February 20, 2025

DHS reverses deportation amnesty for Haitians, could pave path for more expulsions

Homeland Security on Thursday unwound the Biden administration's attempt to lock in 18 extra months of a deportation amnesty for Haitian migrants, saying it was an abuse of the system.

February 20, 2025

Trump conquers CPAC 10 years after hostility

Like so much of the rest of the political right -- from Reaganism to the tea party movement -- Donald Trump has conquered CPAC, bringing it into the broader MAGA fold.

February 20, 2025