Politics

The Microsoft founder discusses vaccine skepticism, his fellow-billionaires’ political pivots, and his dinner with the President at Mar-a-Lago.

The Trump administration sacked more than a dozen independent inspectors general at government agencies overnight on Friday, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration that some members of Congress say violates federal law. Internal government watchdogs are charged with preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse of power.

A tale of two New York politicians, meant for each other.

Believed to be just 2nd such Cabinet confirmation requiring a tie-breaking vote by a VP

A Seattle judge issued a 14-day restraining order in response to a lawsuit from states calling the president’s effort unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump moved quickly to eviscerate the surviving remnants of affirmative action, upending decades of policy — actions that observers say are sure to touch every aspect of American life.

Right Rev. Mariann Budde had appealed to Trump to have mercy and compassion during an interfaith service.