WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Friday it would start firing about 5,400 civilian employees who were on probation, the first moves by President Donald Trump’s administration at the department to make good on its promise to reduce the federal workforce. “We expect approximately 5,400 probationary workers will be released beginning next week as […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday ordered the transfer of 1,500 staffers out of its Washington headquarters, two sources familiar with the orders told Reuters. Some 1,000 of the staffers would be dispersed to field offices around the country, with another 500 ordered to transfer to Huntsville, Alabama, the sources said, adding […]

(Reuters) – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said on Friday he opposes a new trial for Lyle and Erik Menendez after 35 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents. Hochman, in a press conference, also cast doubt on whether the Menendez brothers had been sexually abused by their parents – […]

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday declined to block the Trump administration from putting more than 2,000 U.S. Agency for International Development workers on leave, a setback for government employee unions suing over what they have called an effort to dismantle the foreign aid agency. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top official in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda has been reassigned amid concerns that the deportation effort isn’t moving fast enough. Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Friday that Caleb Vitello, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was “no longer in […]