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A sudden and sweeping halt to U.S. foreign aid by the Trump administration does not apply to weapons support to Israel and Egypt and emergency food assistance, according to a memo issued by the department to bureaus and U.S. missions overseas Friday.

Facing growing scrutiny over whether one of its transmission towers sparked the Eaton fire, Southern California Edison this week said that an encampment was found roughly 300 yards downhill from the tower in Eaton Canyon.

The White House removed the independent inspectors general of nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an unprecedented purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the government.

Four female Israeli soldiers were released by Hamas in Gaza City, and 200 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel on Saturday, the start of a second week of a planned six-week ceasefire and hostage release deal that has halted 15 months of fighting.

Kristi L. Noem, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, was confirmed by the Senate on Saturday, installing a Trump ally in a key policy role.

Since his inauguration Monday, President Donald Trump has signed more than 50 presidential directives, from scrubbing references to diversity, equity, and inclusion out of federal policy to pardoning those convicted of crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Trump’s new cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, is an example of what insiders call a meme coin - a digital token traded largely to capitalize on jokes or online enthusiasm rather than as a practical financial asset. It had a market capitalization of $5.8 billion late Friday, a sizable worth for a week-old project.

At Stiiizy, the bestselling cannabis brand in America, the goal is explicit: producing powerful and cheap marijuana.

When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes late. But within 23 minutes of takeoff, it was careening over the Atlantic at 803 mph - and still got to London’s Heathrow Airport on time. The reason? Jet stream winds supercharging its speed.

Ever since the novel coronavirus reached the United States five years ago, it has unleashed punishing winter waves of illness. But the usual COVID uptick is much more muted this winter and appears to have peaked. The virus is less rampant in wastewater compared with winters past. Hospitalization rates have gone down.

On Monday, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 people who had been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and who he suggested had been victimized by a politicized prosecution.

WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth as defense secretary Friday after he survived a bruising struggle with Democrats who decried the Trump nominee as unqualified and unfit to oversee the country’s 1.3 million active-duty troops and the Pentagon’s nearly $850 billion budget.

President Donald Trump landed in Los Angeles Friday afternoon to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through L.A. County. It was his first presidential visit since taking office — and a potentially contested one after his repeated threats to withhold federal aid to California.

So was it a Hitler salute or wasn't it? Speaking at President Donald Trump's inauguration event this week, Elon Musk slapped his right hand on his chest before shooting his arm diagonally upward, palm facing down. He did it twice.

A reported sighting of immigration agents attempting to enter an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side on Friday was in fact U.S. Secret Service agents investigating a threat, a federal spokesperson said late Friday afternoon.

As White House officials packed up last week and their Trump counterparts prepared to move in, dozens of senior leaders in both administrations trundled into the neighboring Eisenhower Executive Office Building to game out how the new government would respond to an emergency, such as a new pandemic.

President Donald Trump mused Friday about shutting down the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying that states could do a better job at responding to disasters.

The Trump administration is giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials the power to quickly deport migrants who were allowed into the country temporarily under Biden-era programs, according to an internal government memo obtained by the New York Times.