The evening sun shines on the Reichstag building of the German Bundestag with the inscription “Dem Deutschen Volke. Fabian Sommer | Picture Alliance | Getty Images BERLIN — The Christian Democratic Union and the allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal election on Sunday, according to exit polls…
US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign – the latest development in the Trump administration’s efforts targeting the federal workforce. The email came after billionaire Trump confidante Elon Musk tweeted that employees would “shortly receive an email requesting to understand what…
A federal judge in Washington gave President Trump a major victory on Tuesday when she declined to bar Elon Musk and his associates from having access to data at seven federal agencies or involvement in mass firings. In an order on Tuesday, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Federal District Court in Washington, wrote that a…
Science is, in its very nature, collaborative. Many consortiums and alliances within scientific fields cross borders and language barriers. Some labs may be able to find additional funding from alternative sources such as the European Union. But it is unlikely that a continued withdrawal of NIH funding could be plugged by overseas support. And Big…
A woman walks down the stairs in front of the U.S. Capitol building, ahead of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, in Washington on Jan. 15, 2025. Marko Djurica | Reuters The Trump administration is offering millions of federal workers the option to accept buyouts through a government-wide “deferred resignation” program if they resign by…
Watch: Pause on federal funding targeted at DEI and ‘wokeness’, says White House A US judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans, minutes before it was set to come into effect on Tuesday. Judge Loren AliKhan’s order to pause the plan until next…
US President Donald Trump has paused grants, loans and other federal assistance, according to a leaked government memo verified by the BBC’s US partner, CBS News. In the memo, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) calls on government agencies to ensure spending is consistent with Trump’s priorities. The full impact…
The National Treasury Employees Union said on Tuesday that it has sued President Trump to block an executive order that would enable him to fire career federal workers across the government. The order signed on Monday evening, known as “Schedule F,” would empower the Trump administration to strip job protections from many career federal employees…
US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison without parole. The three excluded from the measure include the Boston Marathon bomber and the man who killed Jewish worshippers in 2018. In a statement, Biden said he was “more convinced…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) joins former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 5, 2024. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty Images Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the billionaire backer of newly minted President-elect Donald…
