When President Trump said on Wednesday that his order to freeze federal spending was about “scams, dishonesty, waste and abuse,” he was echoing promises made by his predecessors in both parties. Yes, the memo was a sweeping attempt to remake what he calls a “woke” government in his image. Yes, it was part of his…
Chuck Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator and a longtime fixture of NBC’s political coverage, told colleagues on Friday that he was leaving the network. A nearly two-decade veteran of NBC, Mr. Todd said that Friday would be his last day at NBC. “There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been…
CBS News plans to comply with a request from the Federal Communications Commission for the unedited transcript of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris that aired last year and became the subject of a lawsuit brought against the network by President Trump. The network’s news division received a letter of inquiry from the F.C.C.,…
Judge McConnell’s Friday order does not block the Trump administration from continuing its review, only from defunding those programs that fail its tests in the states that sued — New York, California, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington…
President Trump is set to impose tariffs on imports from America’s three largest trading partners: Goods from Mexico and Canada will be subject to 25 percent tariffs and those from China will be hit by a 10 percent fee. The White House said that the tariffs will go into effect tomorrow. The president, who on…
Wichita might be the country’s smallest big city. Or perhaps the country’s largest town. It is both big, with nearly 400,000 residents, and 550,000 in the larger metro area; and small, the type of place where you know your banker and bump into a friend while running errands. In recent years, Wichita has dreamed of…
The new U.S. Department of Transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, issued an order this week that threatened to shift federal transportation funding away from local governments that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. The order revives an unsettled legal fight from the first Trump term over whether the federal government can withhold funds from “sanctuary cities.”…
A Learjet with two people aboard crashed near a shopping center in Northeast Philadelphia after departing the Northeast Philadelphia Airport on Friday night, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The plane was en route to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri when it crashed at about 6:30 p.m. near Cottman and Bustleton Avenues in…
The flight path that an Army Black Hawk helicopter took before its fatal collision with an American Airlines regional jet, long a concern to aviation officials, was closed to most helicopters after the deadliest aviation accident in the United States in nearly a quarter of a century. The Federal Aviation Administration restricted two commonly used…