KINGSTON (Reuters) — Many Jamaicans want their country to ditch King Charles as head of state but a bill presented by the government to do just that has frustrated some critics of the monarchy who…
House Republicans approved a budget framework for President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda Tuesday — a major victory for Speaker Mike Johnson who worked with Trump and fellow leaders in a chaotic last-ditch effort to win over naysayers…
BALTIMORE — Confusion and chaos loom as hundreds of thousands of federal employees begin their workweek today facing a deadline from President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting chief, Elon Musk, to explain their recent accomplishments or risk losing their jobs. Musk’s unusual demand…
WASHINGTON — Governor Albert Bryan of the U.S. Virgin Islands met with President Donald Trump and fellow governors at the White House to discuss “shared priorities and opportunities for collaboration between state and federal governments.” Among…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration ‘s acting commissioner has stepped down from her role at the agency over Department of Government Efficiency requests to access Social Security recipient information, according to two people familiar with…
FREDERIKSTED — Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett used the opening of the Agriculture and Food Fair in Estate Lower Love on Saturday to issue a stern warning to residents of the territory: President Donald Trump…
BELLADERE, Haiti (AP) — A crowd of 500 descended from dusty trucks on a recent morning and shuffled through a tiny gap in a border gate separating Haiti from the Dominican Republic. They were the first deportees…
Donald Trump’s new executive order, titled “Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Workforce Optimization Initiative,” outlines exactly how Trump and Elon Musk plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and strip…
“DOGE’s grand plan is to lay off federal government jobs. Well, 30 percent of those jobs are veterans.” In one of his many day-one executive orders, President Donald Trump called for a 90-day hiring freeze of federal employees…
Welcome to the “try and stop me” presidency. Donald Trump, cheered on by compliant Republicans in Congress and confident in the ideological leanings of the Supreme Court, is using his first days in office to…