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(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from orchestrating its plan to place 2,200 employees of the United States Agency for International Development on leave at midnight.In an order late Friday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols -- a Trump appointee -- issued a temporary restraining that prevents Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency from placing the employees on administrative leave as had been planned. The judge also […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge, in a ruling late Friday evening, has denied an effort to block the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data from the Department of Labor.In his ruling, federal Judge John D. Bates found that the five federal employee unions that alleged Elon Musk's cost-cutting team sought to illegally access highly sensitive data, including medical records, failed to establish standing."Although the Court harbors concerns about […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The decades-long wait for the release of the government's secret files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy could be nearing an end, with word from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) that a plan to make the documents public has been delivered to the White House under an order from President Trump."In accordance with the President's executive order, ODNI submitted its plan to […]

(SPOKANE, Wash.) --A 40-year-old man attacked a priest during a church service in Spokane, Washington, on Tuesday night, according to officials.Around 350 to 400 people had gathered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in downtown Spokane on Tuesday for the second night of novena, a tradition of gathering for prayer for nine days or nine weeks, when the man, identified as Joshua James Sommers, allegedly attacked the priest.Security camera footage […]

(WASHINGTON) -- At the U.S. Agency for International Development this week, as a team from the Department of Government Efficiency quietly worked to dismantle the aid agency, those who hadn't already been locked out of its Washington headquarters busied themselves with work they never imagined doing -- shutting it down."We feel like it's closing time at the store and we're the ones left to turn off the lights," one career official told […]