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The Trump administration is intensifying its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection

Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali

The State Department had been in talks with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy armored electric vehicles, but the plans have been put on hold by the Trump administration after reports emerged about a potential $400 million purchase

The U.S. has sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut their massive defense budgets in half

The U.S. attorney for Manhattan has resigned after she refused to succumb to pressure from the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against New York City’s mayor

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan has resigned after being ordered by the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan has resigned after refusing a Justice Department order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Before resigning, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan told her boss that she was confident that New York City Mayor Eric Adams “has committed the crimes with which he is charged” and that she would refuse the Justice Department’s order to drop the corruption case

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials have resigned after she refused an order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams