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What happened President Donald Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday, inviting billionaire Elon Musk to expound on his DOGE cost-cutting effort and ensuring that Cabinet members knew Musk had his full support. Trump also declined […]

What happened A federal judge in Northern California Thursday ordered the White House Office of Personnel Management to temporarily stop mandating the mass firing of federal employees, calling it a presumptively “illegal” overreach. U.S. District Judge William Alsup also said

What happened Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their New Mexico home on Wednesday, investigators said Thursday. “There was no obvious sign or indication of foul play,” Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza

What happened “After many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians shows signs of leveling off — at least temporarily,” Pew Research Center said Wednesday. Who said what Pew’s third Religious Landscape Study found that

What happened Joann, the 82-year-old fabric and crafts store, said Monday it was closing all 800 of its stores and ceasing operations after liquidation firm GA Group and a lender won “substantially all” of its assets at an auction over

What happened Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats/Christian Social Union bloc won a 28.5% plurality in Sunday’s national election, making CDU leader Friedrich Merz the presumptive next chancellor. The election was held seven months early due to the collapse of Chancellor Olaf

What happened Workers across the federal government received emails Saturday afternoon instructing them to reply with approximately “5 bullets of what you accomplished last week” by the end of Monday. Earlier Saturday, Elon Musk said on X that “failure to

What happened President Donald Trump began the weekend by firing top military leaders including Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and ended it by announcing he was appointing right-wing pundit and podcaster Dan

What happened Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday that the Trump administration was rescinding federal approval of New York City’s first-in-the-nation congestion pricing toll program for vehicles entering Lower and Midtown Manhattan. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which manages the new

What happened President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at taking control of the U.S. Postal Service and folding the independent mail agency into the Commerce Department, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal said Thursday. Doing