The Trump administration announced Friday it had begun mass layoffs of federal employees, a step not taken during previous government shutdowns and one that could significantly reshape the size and scope of the government.

The Trump administration may try to interpret a law enacted during his first term in office differently than it did following the last government shutdown, potentially denying back pay to hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers.

The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could reverse or solidify state laws across the country that ban a controversial counseling practice for LGBTQ+ youth.

An agreement to reopen the federal government was nowhere in sight Friday after U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans failed Friday, for the fourth time, to move on a deal and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he won’t bring his members back until the middle of the month.

Furloughed staff at the U.S. Department of Education say out-of-office messages for their government email accounts have been hijacked to include a message blaming the government shutdown on Senate Democrats.

President Trump referenced Project 2025 Thursday despite distancing himself from it during his 2024 campaign…( Read full story )

The first federal government shutdown in seven years has left hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed and members of the public struggling to understand what’s open, what’s closed and what might be delayed.

Black, Hispanic men account for most of the increase; Natives continue to have highest rate, analysis finds.

President Donald Trump's administration has asked U.S. colleges to sign a deal on some sweeping terms - ranging from foreign enrollment...

Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31% last year and 40% five years ago…(Read full story)

A coalition of voting rights groups filed a class action against the Trump administration Tuesday over its creation of a searchable national citizenship database, likening it to the dossiers the fictional Oceania kept on citizens in George Orwell’s “1984.”