Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a month of fits and starts, a final hammer came down on the U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday night when the State Department, which had previously said it was going to review all foreign aid, announced that review was over and itRead More →

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a historic executive order designating English as the United States’ official language, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. The order marks the first time the country has ever had a national language. The executiveRead More →

(Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes to the White House on Friday to ink a deal that would give the U.S. access to his country’s mineral resources — an agreement that President Donald Trump has cast a way to ensure American taxpayers get paid back forRead More →

Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a portrait in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) (LOS ANGELES) — Authorities are searching for answers into the death of actor Gene Hackman, 95, who along with his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, were mysteriouslyRead More →

Kypros/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice released files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein Thursday evening. The material released contained previously published pilot logs from the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell. The records include redactions performed by prosecutors on the case to protect the identities of potential victims. AlsoRead More →

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education launched a first-of-its-kind website, “EndDEI.Ed.Gov,” just hours before a deadline warning institutions to end discrimination or they will be subject to federal funding consequences. The new online portal went live on Thursday for the community to submit discrimination-focused complaints. “TheRead More →

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (DES MOINES, IOWA) — Iowa lawmakers voted Thursday to strike gender identity from state civil rights protections. The state’s civil rights law currently protects against discrimination in the workplace, school, accommodations, housing and more based on someone’s “age, race, creed, color, sex, sexualRead More →

Kelly Livingston/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Several U.S. Agency for International Development staffers cleared out their offices at the agency’s Washington headquarters on Thursday, saying they were disheartened after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency laid them off or placed them on leave. “The more I talk about it, the more I want toRead More →