The Trump administration on Wednesday canceled $226 million in federal grants earmarked for meetings and reports on diversity needs in K-12 schools. The Department of Education said the Comprehensive Centers program that the grants funded produced work that ranged from a video instructing teachers to “flick that White man off your shoulders” to a joint video…
Stephen Marroquin-Mendez was stuffed inside a cabinet in the cab of a semitruck when authorities found him. The cabinet was latched from the outside, so he could not free himself. The illegal immigrant from El Salvador told agents from the Department of Homeland Security last week that he had paid $8,500 to be floated across the Rio Grande and into Texas, owed $8,500 more…
EdReform Virginia’s 3rd annual School Choice Week event drew a crowd of more than 50 on Saturday, Feb. 1. The event, held in Arlington, featured remarks from a variety of speakers on the need for educational freedom. “The Nation’s Report Card came out just last week — and the results, frankly, were abysmal,” said EdReform Virginia Executive Director Nathan Brinkman. “We should view this as a five-alarm fire…
President Trump’s latest move against the federal bureaucracy came this week when the administration moved to fire thousands of recently hired employees still on probationary status. The Veterans Affairs Department said it axed more than 1,000 nonunion workers who had been on the job for less than two years…
By Mike Glenn The Washington Times Thursday, February 13, 2025 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday brushed off European complaints that President Trump’s surprise one-on-one talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin amounted to a betrayal of Ukraine and stood by his comments a day earlier that it was unrealistic for Kyiv to expect a peace deal to return all the land it had lost…
It sounds almost too crazy to be true. President Trump’s quest to dislodge thousands of workers from the federal government is being hamstrung by an antiquated personnel filing system located deep inside a mountain bunker. Mr. Trump’s government efficiency adviser, Elon Musk…
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it had fired four employees it blamed for making “egregious” payments for luxury hotels to house migrants in New York City. Those axed include the chief financial officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, two program analysts and a grant…
The president of the European Commission is condemning President Trump’s decision to impose a 25% tariff on foreign steel and aluminum and pledging to retaliate. Ursula von der Leyen said tariffs are taxes that are bad for business and “worse for consumers.” “Unjustified tariffs on the EU will not go unanswered — they will trigger firm and proportionate countermeasures,” Ms. von der Leyen said late Monday…
Republican lawmakers for years have preached fiscal responsibility and vowed to curb wanton federal spending, but Congress kept racking up deficits and the national debt has now ballooned to more than $36 trillion. Enter Elon Musk, tech billionaire and leader of President Trump’s charge to downsize the federal government. Mr. Musk and his Department…
The U.S. government filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the sanctuary policies in Illinois and Chicago, arguing they are unlawfully interfering with federal authorities’ ability to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. Justice Department lawyers said the state and local policies go beyond noncooperation and “intentionally obstruct” the…
President Trump ordered a ban Wednesday on biological males participating in girls’ and women’s scholastic sports, fulfilling a campaign promise and posterizing Democrats on an issue that has become a slam dunk for Republicans. The enthusiastic crowd that packed the White House East Room roared as Mr. Trump declared that “the war on women’s sports is over” before signing…
President Trump plans to shrink the size of government includes abolishing the Education Department, which spends $80 billion a year as student test scores plunge. The department is under scrutiny following Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to close the department and transfer some of its duties…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet Tuesday as the Israeli prime minister faces competing pressure from his right-wing coalition to end a temporary truce against Hamas militants in Gaza and from war-weary Israelis who want the remaining hostages home and the 15-month conflict to end. Trump is guarded…
The “Ziz Cult” has been blamed for a string of brutal slayings and mayhem across the United States, including the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont. A nationwide manhunt is underway for Michelle Zajko, a transgender, nonbinary person who police believe bought the semiautomatic weapons used by two other transgender people who fatally…
China is subverting the United States through multibillion-dollar influence campaigns and U.S. political warfare operations inside China are needed to counter the activities, a panel of experts told Congress on Thursday. Four specialists in Chinese influence and intelligence activities told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the operations range from recruiting…
