Julia Jester

A large number of people gathered near the White House on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump's agenda, building upon a widespread effort by anti-Trump organizers to galvanize voters concerned with the administration's policies and significant use of executive authority.

Gary Shapley, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approached President Donald Trump to say that Shapley was placed into the role without his knowledge and at Elon Musk’s direction, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

A judge has denied bond to Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student from Turkey whose arrest on a Massachusetts sidewalk was captured in a viral video.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Friday she will not seek re-election, a decision that means the Republican's time as governor will come to an end just shy of the 10-year mark after the 2026 election.

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk on Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, as a "moron" and "dumber than a sack of bricks" in a spat that underscores the discord among the president's top allies over his sweeping tariffs set to go into effect this week.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said Friday he would seek a court order to block tech billionaire and White House adviser Elon Musk from awarding million-dollar prizes to people at a weekend event ahead of next week's pivotal state Supreme Court race.

A federal judge Monday kept in place an order prohibiting mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while she sorts through conflicting claims about whether the Trump administration is still trying to shutter the independent agency.

An official at the federal foreign aid agency targeted by the Trump administration with layoffs, cuts and funding obstacles was placed on leave Sunday after saying those moves will lead to "preventable death" and threats to U.S. security.

Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary or not, according to three sources with knowledge of the system.

Senators pressed Linda McMahon on what it would look like if the Department of Education were dismantled and how she would enforce civil rights laws during her confirmation hearing Thursday to be education secretary.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers are staging protests outside federal agencies, holding resistance-themed news conferences back home and taking to social media as they try to combat President Donald Trump’s moves to remake the government with executive power.