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How to watch, stream Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington DC, United States on February 04, 2020. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President [Read More…]

Zelenskyy meets with bipartisan group of senators ahead of tense White House exchange
Photo by TETIANA DZHAFAROVA/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of bipartisan senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday morning ahead of the tense exchange between the Ukrainian leader, President Donald Trump and Vice [Read More…]

Democrats dismayed, Republicans applaud after White House says Trump kicked out Zelenskyy
Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional Republicans on Friday were nearly unanimous in their praise of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance after they and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a fiery [Read More…]

Transgender military members react to ‘jarring’ Pentagon memo
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Transgender service members are fighting back against the Pentagon’s recent announcement requiring the separation of transgender people from the military. Lt. Cmdr. Geirid Morgan has served in the Navy for 14 [Read More…]

‘Many of them will die’: Hammer drops on USAID with organizations left reeling
Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a month of fits and starts, a final hammer came down on the U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday night when the State Department, which had previously said [Read More…]

Trump expected to sign executive order making English the official US language
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a historic executive order designating English as the United States’ official language, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. The [Read More…]

Trump, Zelenskyy hold high-stakes summit amid tensions over peace talks with Putin
(Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes to the White House on Friday to ink a deal that would give the U.S. access to his country’s mineral resources — an agreement that [Read More…]

Could the federal layoffs impact the Virginia governor race?
(adamkaz/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — With the Virginia gubernatorial election a little more than eight months away, Democrats in the state have said they believe the federal job cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration will have [Read More…]

‘DEI needs to go’: Education Department launches ‘END DEI’ website
J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education launched a first-of-its-kind website, “EndDEI.Ed.Gov,” just hours before a deadline warning institutions to end discrimination or they will be subject to federal funding consequences. The [Read More…]

Iowa lawmakers vote to remove gender ID from state civil rights protections
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (DES MOINES, IOWA) — Iowa lawmakers voted Thursday to strike gender identity from state civil rights protections. The state’s civil rights law currently protects against discrimination in the [Read More…]

‘Heartbreaking’: USAID staffers clear out desks after DOGE layoffs
Kelly Livingston/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Several U.S. Agency for International Development staffers cleared out their offices at the agency’s Washington headquarters on Thursday, saying they were disheartened after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency laid them off or [Read More…]

Trump hosts UK’s Keir Starmer for Ukraine talks amid disagreement over security guarantees
Leon Neal/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is hosting United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday. The two leaders will hold a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office shortly [Read More…]

House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — While President Donald Trump’s proudest supporters on Capitol Hill shower him with legislation proposing putting his portrait on a $250 bill, declaring his birthday a national holiday or [Read More…]

Transgender US service members will be separated from military, Pentagon memo says
(Douglas Rissing/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Transgender U.S. service members will be separated from the military unless they receive an exemption, according to a new Pentagon policy disclosed in a court filing on Wednesday. According to [Read More…]

VA begins reversing contract cancellations that support medical care, facilities
(P_Wei/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — One day after the Department of Veterans Affairs celebrated an estimated $2 billion in savings on canceled contracts, the agency began reversing some of the cancellations that may have affected veterans’ [Read More…]

Republicans pushing forward on Medicaid changes, despite potential political fallout
(Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans signaled they’re going full steam ahead on significant changes to Medicaid, despite pressure from Democrats and even some moderates in their party. The suggested overhauls to the [Read More…]

Key takeaways from Trump’s 1st Cabinet meeting — with Elon Musk
Preisdent Donald Trump attends a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, June 12, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his second term on [Read More…]

White House formally instructs agencies to prepare for ‘large-scale’ layoffs and reorganization
Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is directing all federal agencies to “promptly” begin preparations for large-scale layoffs and restructuring, and submit plans for doing do so by March 13, according to a [Read More…]

Trump to hold 1st Cabinet meeting; Elon Musk will be there, too
Preisdent Donald Trump attends a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, June 12, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is holding the first Cabinet meeting of his second term [Read More…]

Trump signs executive action targeting law firm representing former special counsel Jack Smith
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump signed an executive action Tuesday targeting a prominent law firm that represents former special counsel Jack Smith. The memo strips Smith’s attorney of his security clearance as [Read More…]