Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules  —  U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government's central human resources office.  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to rehire tens …

Senate Democrats face major dilemma: help GOP pass funding bill or trigger shutdown  —  Senate Democrats are facing a dilemma as the clock ticks down to a government shutdown at midnight on Friday: help Republicans pass a bill to avoid a shutdown or block the bill and be blamed for triggering one.

Scoop: White House to pull CDC director nomination  —  The White House is withdrawing the nomination of Dave Weldon to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), per a source close to Senate health committee and another source familiar.

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Trump expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation effort in coming days  —  The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president's mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.

I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work  —  In the weeks since I left office in January, I've been committing my time and attention to the kinds of things that inevitably get shorted when you serve in public office, no matter how much you try to do right by them.

B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains  —  Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3  —  A B.C. mom is pleading for help after her daughter was unexpectedly detained in the United States over an incomplete visa.

Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange's Guilty Plea  —  Discussions for stake in Binance's U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea  —  Representatives of President Trump's family …

Putin Aide Rejects Plan for Ukraine Cease-Fire  —  Moscow says it is close to ousting Kyiv's forces from Russia's Kursk region  —  A Russian negotiator dismissed a U.S.-brokered proposal for a cease-fire in Ukraine, as the Kremlin said its forces were in the final stages of ousting Ukraine's army from Russia's Kursk region.

Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war  —  The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general's corps  —  The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul …

Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say  —  Potential plans range from partnering more closely with the Panamanian military to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, according to two U.S. officials..

DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find  —  Elon Musk's group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency.  But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.  —  Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency …

Gateway megachurch founder, former Trump spiritual adviser, indicted on charges of lewd acts with Oklahoma girl  —  A grand jury in Oklahoma on Wednesday indicted Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris, accusing him in five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a girl beginning when she was 12 years old in the 1980s.

Meta wins halt to promotion of ‘Careless People’ tell-all book by former employee  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) on Wednesday won an emergency arbitration ruling to temporarily stop promotion of the tell-all book “Careless People” by a former employee, according to a copy of the ruling published by the social media company.

Elon Musk Retweet: “Hitler Didn't Murder Millions of People... Public Sector Workers Did”  —  Musk uses Holocaust to take apparent swipe at federal workers  —  MAGA Billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), is facing criticism after amplifying a tweet that downplays …

NH's new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates  —  It took three trips, but Brooke Yonge was finally able to cast her ballot.  —  On her first trip to the Derry polls Tuesday morning, Yonge didn't bring proof of her U.S. citizenship …

Top IRS lawyer pushed aside as DOGE seeks tax records, staffing cuts  —  Elon Musk's team has provoked concern among career staff over requests for tax records of undocumented immigrants.  —  The acting chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service has been removed from his position …

Elon Musk Made Secret Visit to U.S. Spy Agency  —  Meeting between Musk and the National Security Agency's leadership was ‘positive’ but comes after he called for its overhaul  —  Elon Musk visited the National Security Agency on Wednesday, current and former U.S. officials said …

Protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil at NYC's Trump Tower ends with 98 arrests, police say  —  The NYPD said nearly 100 people have been arrested after a group of protesters entered Trump Tower in New York City.  —  It started just before noon Thursday.  Video from inside the building shows …

DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations  —  NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.

Former lawmaker says Trump pardoned him 2 weeks into campaign finance scheme sentence  —  President Trump pardoned a former Tennessee Republican lawmaker who was two weeks into his 21-month prison sentence for a campaign finance scheme.  —  Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey announced his pardon in a post online.

Trump threatens 200% tariff on European wine and Champagne  —  Washington — President Trump on Thursday threatened to impose tariffs on wines, Champagnes and other alcoholic products imported to the U.S. from France and other European countries in response to raised tariffs the European Union placed on American whiskey.