Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Politics News (Master Feed)

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAID personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and e...

By Jonathan Landay, Joseph Ax and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Multiple U.S. federal agencies told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump's adviser Elon Mu...

By Jason Lange and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans give President Donald Trump middling marks on his handling of the economy and efforts to shrink the government and are unimpressed by so...

By Steve Holland NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (Reuters) - President Donald Trump took a victory lap of sorts before a large gathering of conservatives on Saturday to celebrate his first month in office, ...

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elon Musk, the billionaire head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, threatened on Saturday to fire any federal worker who fai...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday urged billionaire Elon Musk to be more aggressive in his efforts to shrink the federal government despite uproar over layoffs and deep sp...

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dan Caine may not have been on Washington's radar before Friday night. But President Donald Trump's fascination with the retired three-star genera...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday filed a rare judicial misconduct complaint, accusing the judge hearing a challenge of President Donald Trump's ban on transgende...

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and announced he would replace fiv...

By Idrees Ali and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk's unprecedented and frantic effort to slash the federal workforce, pushing tens of thousands of work...