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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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

(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…]

(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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

(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…]

(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…]

(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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Donald Trump’s administration guts the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), former federal workers are being told to say goodbye to their desks — and to [Read More…]