Feb 14, 2025 · El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said during Rubio's visit that El Salvador will take convicted prisoners from the United States, including U.S. citizens, for a fee. That extraordinary offer got most of the attention, but Rubio also said El Salvador agreed to accept deportees of any nationality and hold them in its prisons.. Beyond that, …

Feb 15, 2025 · The firings touch on two top Trump priorities: mass deportations and shrinking the size of the federal government. On Thursday, it ordered agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.Probationary workers generally have less than a year on the job.

Feb 20, 2025 · McConnell set a new precedent for hardball partisan tactics in 2016 by refusing to even give a hearing to Democratic President Barack Obama's pick of Merrick Garland to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Putting the brakes on the Senate's "advise and consent" role for judicial nominees, McConnell said the vacancy should be filled by the next president so voters could have ...

Feb 14, 2025 · State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly seeks a second four-year term in the nonpartisan role. Looking to unseat her are Jeff Wright, superintendent of the Sauk Prairie School District, and Brittany Kinser, an education consultant and founder of a …

Feb 24, 2025 · In the past two weeks, Trump has falsely claimed Ukraine "should have never started the war," said Ukraine "may be Russian someday" and questioned the legitimacy of President Volodmyr Zelenskyy's government, while upending the longstanding American position of isolating Russia over its aggression by beginning direct talks with Moscow and voicing positions sounding remarkably like the Kremlin's ...

Feb 17, 2025 · This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.. It's an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with ...

Feb 15, 2025 · The EEOC in fiscal year 2023 received more than 3,000 charges alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, "the most since the agency started tracking these charges in FY 2013, and up more than 36% from the previous year," according to the agency's website, which also provides a link for more information on discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Feb 22, 2025 · President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to make Canada the "51st state" of the U.S., prompting mass criticism from politicians and residents north of the border.

Feb 17, 2025 · New Lt.-Gov. Wendy Cocchia will deliver a throne speech outlining the NDP government's goals, opening the legislative session against the backdrop of economic uncertainty and the looming threat of whopping tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Feb 19, 2025 · Health Minister Adriana LaGrange is also set to appear at the news conference in Calgary. The former head of Alberta Health Services alleges in a lawsuit that she was fired for probing questionable contracts pushed by government officials as high up as the premier's office.