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WASHINGTON — A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. In an email with the subject …

President Donald Trump’s push to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development and remake the federal workforce is causing whiplash for those who recently entered it hoping for long, stable careers in public service. Krisna Patel, 23, said she filed for unemployment insurance last week after getting laid off …

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday on a fraud charge in a case alleging he helped defraud donors who were giving money to build a wall at the southern U.S. border. In exchange for the guilty plea, he agreed to a conditional discharge and waived …

The race is on to try to stop vital information from being rewritten or scrubbed from U.S. government websites, with researchers warning that the loss of key data could create risks for the environment and marginalized communities. Thousands of U.S. government web pages are being altered or deleted following a …

Military families protesting the Defense Department’s anti-DEI push heckled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on his arrival at United States European Command headquarters in Germany on Tuesday. On a visit to the U.S. military’s key European military hub in Stuttgart, Hegseth was booed by around two dozen people who live …

LONDON — It could have been an explosive discovery. But luckily, more than 170 World War II bombs lying underneath a children’s playground in northeastern England did not go off and workers were able to recover them. Construction workers found the first bomb when they began work on the Scotts …

The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was at risk of faltering Tuesday after President Donald Trump warned “all hell is going to break out” if the Palestinian militant group does not release “all” remaining hostages this week. The war in Gaza is on pause following a complex agreement in …

SEOUL, South Korea — A teacher at a South Korean elementary school has admitted to stabbing a 7-year-old girl who was found in cardiac arrest and later died in hospital, a police official said Tuesday. The female teacher, who is being treated for self-inflicted wounds in hospital, has not yet been arrested, the official said, as police …

A woman in the U.S. accused internet personalities Tristan and Andrew Tate of conspiring to coerce her into sex work, luring her to Romania and defaming her after her testimony to Romanian authorities, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. The civil complaint in Florida was reported earlier by the New York Times, …

The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau risk leaving Americans’ nearly $18 trillion in consumer debt with less supervision or regulation. One CFPB staffer said Monday that every meeting and work item on their calendar, including reviewing investigative actions, had been deleted. “I think at some …