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HHS to cut a fourth of its workforce

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story HHS to cut a fourth of its workforce The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in complying with President Trump’s DOGE executive order, aims to cut 20,000 positions through layoffs, buyouts, early retirement and the White House’s severance...

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: The Hill

King Charles required 'short' observation in hospital Thursday following scheduled cancer treatment

King Charles was hospitalized for 'a short period of observation' on Thursday after experiencing 'temporary side effects,'' related to a scheduled cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

King Charles III experiences side effects after cancer treatment, hospitalized for observation

Charles, 76, has been undergoing treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer for more than a year. The king has continued fulfilling his state duties, such as reviewing government papers and meeting with the prime minister, even though he took some time off public duties.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

Judge says he will order Trump administration to preserve Signal chat about strikes in Yemen

A federal judge on Thursday said he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of atext message chatin which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

AP renews court request for reinstatement to White House press pool

A lawyer for The Associated Press asked a federal judge Thursday to reinstate the agency’s access to the White House press pool and other official events, saying the Trump administration’s ban is a fundamental attack on freedom of speech and should be overturned.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

White House withdraws Rep. Stefanik’s nomination for UN ambassador over GOP’s razor-thin majority in House

The abrupt withdrawal reflects growing concern among House Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson, that their historically slim majority could be at risk, particularly ahead of two special elections in Florida next week.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

Bondi signals chat investigation unlikely, despite long history of similar inquiries

Multiple high-profile figures have found themselves under investigation in recent years over their handling of government secrets.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

5 years after pandemic surge, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders still targets of hatred

It was five years ago this month that COVID-19-fueled incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders became so frequent that a reporting center was formed.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

Prosecutor in Gérard Depardieu in sexual assault case calls for 18-month suspended sentence

Paris’ public prosecutor has requested that French actor Gérard Depardieu be found guilty and given a 18-month suspended prison sentence on the last day of the four-day trial over accusations by two women of sexual assault on a film set.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

U.S. lawmakers call for Signal chat probe, as Justice Department appears uninterested

Some U.S. senators sent a letter to the inspector general at the Department of Defence to formally request an investigation into how top Trump national security officials used Signal to discuss military strikes.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

Bipartisan senators overseeing military request Pentagon investigation into use of Signal app

Republican committee chair Sen. Roger Wicker and top Democrat Sen. Jack Reed signed onto a letter to the acting inspector general at the Defense Department for an inquiry into the potential use of unclassified networks to discuss classified information.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

France and Britain mull plans to deploy troops to assist with Ukraine-Russia peace deal

At a recent summit featuring leaders of 30 countries as well as European Union and NATO chiefs, French President Emmanuel Macron offered reassurances that France and Britain will continue to forge ahead with plans to deploy troops in Ukraine to secure an eventual peace deal with Russia despite other nations not wanting to take part.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

Tufts student from Turkey threatened with deportation, latest Palestinian supporter swept up in crackdown

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was swiftly moved out of Massachusetts, a demonstration of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is sending immigrants who are taken into custody to detention centers or deporting them altogether before a federal judge has a chance to weigh in on their case and possibly halt the actions.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

Trump takes aim at WilmerHale law firm, citing ties to lawyer Robert Mueller

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Thursday targeting law firm WilmerHale, one of a handful of major firms the president has taken aim at that haveconnections to his legal or political adversaries.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

Detention of South Sudan's VP nullifies peace deal, his party says

The detention of SouthSudan's First Vice President Riek Machar under house arrest has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

6 killed, 39 rescued after tourist submarine sinks off Egypt's coast

SixRussians diedon Thursdayand 39 foreign tourists were rescuedwhen aviewingsubmarine sank off theEgyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, the local governor's officesaid on Facebook, adding that no passengers or crew were still missing.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

Trump administration narrows reach of law targeting drug cartels. Here's why the move is under attack

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

South Korea's worst-ever wildfires double in size, killing at least 28 and incinerating temples

Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst natural fire disaster with at least 28 people killed and historic temples incinerated.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

Trump dangles possibility of lower tariffs for China to make TikTok sale happen

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be willing to reduce tariffs to get a deal done with TikTok's Chinese parent, ByteDance, to sell the short-video app used by 170 million Americans.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

Organizer of transgender history conference in Canada says U.S. participants now afraid to cross the border

B.C. legal centre says it is overwhelmed with immigration requests from transgender Americans.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: CBC News - Canada

Appeals court keeps block on Trump’s sweeping funding freeze

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s ruling Wednesday, keeping a block on the Trump administration’s plans to freeze federal loans and grants through an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo. Chief Judge David Barron, an appointee of former President Obama, and Circuit Judges Lara...

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Descendants of people enslaved by St. Louis University say they cannot participate in formal apology

St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black people the school owned and traded backed out, citing concerns that the yearslong reconciliation process ultimately felt too symbolic.

Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

GOP fundraiser calls for Witkoff's firing over Putin, Hamas comments

GOP fundraiser Eric Levine called for President Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to be fired over the diplomat’s recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing the president’s close friend was “duped” by the Palestinian militant group Hamas during hostage negotiations. Levine, who previously raised money for Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) short-lived 2024 presidential campaign,...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

New Social Security clawback policy starts this week: What to know

A major change in how the Social Security Administration (SSA) treats its overpayments is set to kick in Thursday.

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Trump says he would ask Hegseth to review if flight times should be classified

President Trump on Wednesday said he would ask Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to review what kinds of information should be classified, especially flight times, after they were included in the Signal group chat. The White House has insisted that no classified information was shared in the chat after The Atlantic released screenshots on Wednesday showing...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Will GOP praise for Tesla translate to sales?

Click for more from The Hill. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Will GOP praise for Tesla translate to sales? Conservatives are rallying around Tesla while liberals ditch or distance themselves from Elon Musk’s electric vehicles. Photo by Krisztian Elek/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Republicans, who have long eschewed...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Trump shifts Greenland approach amid blowback, Signal scandal

What looked like a Trump administration charm offensive in its gambit to take over Greenland, billed as a cultural heritage tour led by second lady Usha Vance, has turned into something different with the inclusion of her husband and the explosion of a national security scandal at home. Planned trips this week to Greenland’s capital,...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Trump floats reducing tariffs on China to secure TikTok deal

President Trump on Wednesday floated reducing tariffs on China to get a TikTok divestiture deal done as the April 5 deadline nears. "With respect to TikTok, and China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly in the form of an approval, maybe, and I think they'll do that," Trump told reporters...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Trump officials face more questions as new details from Yemen strike chat revealed

The Atlantic published the full message exchange among the president’s national security aides right before the launch of a military campaign in Yemen. The messages were written on the non-secure, commercial app Signal and the issue dominated a hearing on Capitol Hill. Nick Schifrin reports.

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

Trump cuts funding to global vaccine group

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story White House cuts funding to global vaccine program The Trump administration plans to stop providing U.S. funding for Gavi, a program that helps purchase shots to vaccinate children in developing countries. AP The program was launched...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Administration trying to avoid that Signal chat is massive security breach, Goldberg says

Details about U.S. military strikes being discussed on Signal have shocked many in the national security community. But President Trump called the whole episode a "witch hunt" and said Defense Secretary Hegseth "had nothing to do with this." Geoff Bennett discussed more with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic and moderator of Washington Week.

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

WATCH: DHS Secretary Noem tours El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans

U.S. Homeland Security SecretaryKristi Noemon Wednesday visitedthe high-security El Salvador prisonwhere Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour that included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit.

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour

Hegseth in eye of storm

Presented by Boeing {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth goes on attack as Signal scandal raises big questions Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has moved to the center of the storm over the administration's Signal group chat scandal. AP Seeking to combat questions about whether he shared confidential military...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

Sununu: Trump defense team was 'terrible' in handling group chat mess

Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Wednesday criticized the Trump administration defense team's handling of the Signal group chat with high-level national security officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. “This was not President Trump's fault. I think the way this defense team has handled it had been terrible in terms of the messaging,” Sununu...

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: The Hill

‘Just own it’: GOP Rep. Bacon says Signal chat contained classified info

To discuss the Signal chat on military strikes, Amna Nawaz spoke with Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska. He spent nearly three decades in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a brigadier general.

Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source: PBS NewsHour