The Trump administration, which has been moving like a juggernaut across the political landscape, has hit a land mine.
The decision by Trump's Justice Department to halt the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has caused uproar.
Adams had been due to stand trial in April on charges of bribery, wire fraud and soliciting illegal campaign contributions. |
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President Trump raised eyebrows in an interview that aired Monday after he declined to name Vice President Vance as his automatic successor ahead of the 2028 presidential election.
"No, but he is very capable," Trump told fox News' Bret Baier when asked if he viewed Vance as his 2028 successor.
"I think you have a lot of very capable people," the president said. "So far I think he's doing a fantastic job. It's too early. We're just starting." |
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President Trump and right-hand man Elon Musk have rolled out a series of moves to cull the federal workforce, forging ahead with numerous methods to fire employees that have already sparked legal challenges. The latest actions come as the Trump administration closed out its government buyout program — an offer that came with a warning that "the majority of federal agencies are likely to be downsized through restructurings, realignments, and reductions in force." |
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Democrats are already seeing some small victories in under-the-radar races in the beginning of 2025, with the party hoping they can maintain that energy heading into November as they look to flip the Virginia governor's mansion and hold off GOP opponents in other elections.
The party flipped a state Senate seat in Iowa last month, while a Democrat recently ousted a conservative mayor in Norman, Okla. Meanwhile, in New York, Democrat Ken Jenkins won a county executive seat, improving on the party's November performance there. And last month, the Democrats retained their control over a Loudoun County, Va.-area state House and Senate seats after the party underperformed in November. |
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The Interior Department is firing 2,300 employees after a directive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). An internal message reviewed by The Hill on Friday indicates the department let go of 2,300 employees who were on probationary status — meaning they started relatively recently. |
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally asked a federal district court to drop its corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) after federal prosecutors in Manhattan resigned rather than dismiss the case.
"The United States respectfully submits this motion seeking dismissal without prejudice of the charges in this case, with leave of the Court," the DOJ officials wrote in a Friday notice to the U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Dale Ho. |
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A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) amid a larger push to effectively dismantle the agency.
The Trump administration is barred from firing CFPB employees without cause or issuing any reduction-in-force notice, as part of an agreement reached between the Department of Justice and the National Treasury Employees Union, which is suing alongside other groups over the changes to the agency. |
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President Trump supercharged his overhaul of government agencies this week that included a fresh round of a widespread firings.
Trump signed an order this week indicating agency heads initiate large scale "reductions in force," also known as RIFs, as part of implementing initiatives spearheaded by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). |
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has dismissed more than 1,000 new employees as part of a wave of federal government layoffs that began this week, sparking concerns the firings could impact benefits for former service members. Those dismissed include non-mission-critical probationary employees who have all served less than two years, according to a VA statement released late Thursday. |
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OPINION | Danielle Sassoon, the Trump-appointed acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has resigned rather than obey a Justice Department order that she seek dismissal of the corruption indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Had Sassoon agreed to go along with dismissal of the charges, Adams could have argued he was innocent all along, and Trump would have had some cover for the appearance of political interference in a criminal prosecution. But it was not to be.
Trump said in December that he was considering a pardon for Adams, but no need — the case is now dead, even though, as recently as Jan. 6, prosecutors had indicated that their investigation remained active, writing in court papers that they continued to "uncover additional criminal conduct by Adams." Adams's trial had been set for April 21. |
OPINION | Recent tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and Colombia are not trade wars. They are a response to political issues — illegal immigration, Fentanyl, cartels and crime. The Trump administration is showing it will use trade as leverage to advance domestic policy goals.
So far, it is working: Colombia and Mexico yielded to President Trump's demands after the president threatened them with tariffs. The tension between the European Union and the U.S., however, is about trade — and a lot of it. |
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It is an axiom heard countless times in business school lecture halls and on corporate earnings calls: Uncertainty is bad for business. The U.S. economy is about to test that proposition like never before. |
BY KEACH HAGEY, BERBER JIN, DANA MATTIOLI AND JOSH DAWSEY |
On the first full day of the second Trump presidency, Elon Musk was in the White House complex when he got word that his nemesis was about to hold a press conference with the president. He turned on the television and watched as OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, and a beaming President Trump touted a $500 billion investment in AI infrastructure called Stargate. Despite having rarely left the president's side over the preceding few months, Musk was blindsided by the announcement, according to people familiar with the matter. |
BY JILL COLVIN, BRIAN WITTE, MIKE HOUSEHOLDER AND MICHELLE L. PRICE |
Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration's aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have yet to qualify for civil service protections. While much of the administration's attention was focused on disrupting bureaucracy in Washington, the broad-based effort to slash the government workforce was impacting a far wider swath of workers. |
It's quiet again. Construction crews have hauled away toxic debris, but entire neighborhoods still sit empty. Only six homes have been rebuilt in the county. Much of the town sits in the purgatory between the all-out emergency from 18 months ago, and whatever comes next. The wildfires that ripped through Maui in August 2023 killed more than 100 people, destroyed more than 2,200 structures and displaced 12,000. But the months since have given way to a different kind of crisis. |
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