The president is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted.
Lindsey Halligan, who has largely spent her career handling insurance matters in Florida, has filed appearances in only a handful of federal cases during her decade in the law.
Lindsey Halligan, who has largely spent her career handling insurance matters in Florida, has filed appearances in only a handful of federal cases during her decade in the law.
The justices said they will consider whether to overrule a landmark Supreme Court precedent that has limited the president’s ability to fire top officials at the agency.
The former national security adviser came under fire for inadvertently inviting a journalist to a Signal chat in which he and other top officials discussed war plans.
Michael Waltz was confirmed to serve as the top United States diplomat to the United Nations on a 47-to-43 vote. All but two Democrats opposed Mr. Waltz’s nomination.
The push to remove Erik S. Siebert, a highly regarded career prosecutor, came as a shock in an office that handles some of the nation’s most sensitive national security investigations.
Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
The push to remove Erik S. Siebert, a highly regarded career prosecutor, came as a shock in an office that handles some of the nation’s most sensitive national security investigations.
The university had been roiled after a student filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.
Dmitri N. Kozak’s departure is one of the few known splinters in President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle since the start of his invasion of Ukraine.
Dmitri N. Kozak, a long-serving aide to President Vladimir V. Putin, in 2022. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Kozak would move to a different government job or become a private citizen.
Dr. Susan Monarez told senators at a committee hearing on Wednesday that the health secretary had hurled false and hurtful accusations about the nation’s health agency.
Dr. Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, detailed a tense meeting with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that led to her being fired.
At a Senate health committee hearing, Dr. Susan Monarez painted a picture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man wedded to his own ideology and uninterested in government scientists.
The removal of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention less than a month after her Senate confirmation stunned public health leaders.
Fury at the country’s politicians had led earlier this year to a failed royalist uprising, which may have been an unheeded warning of the popular discontent that exploded on the streets this month.
Prime Minister Sushila Karki, a former chief justice, said she had accepted her new role reluctantly. Major political parties say the process is unconstitutional.
Sushila Karki, a former Supreme Court chief justice who was appointed as interim leader, made speed a priority in a process that other jurists deemed unconstitutional.
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump’s nominees, weakening Congress’s vetting role.
Senator John Thune, the majority leader, began the process on Monday by introducing 48 of President Trump’s nominees together to allow them to be confirmed as a group.
A lawsuit filed by three former F.B.I. officials charges the bureau director Kash Patel dismissed them as part of “a campaign of retribution” for their “failure to demonstrate sufficient personal and political loyalty.”
President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of Sébastien Lecornu, the departing defense minister, after the government collapsed reflects the pressure Mr. Macron faces to get a budget passed.
Republicans said the maneuver to change the Senate’s rules, the latest step that would weaken the filibuster, was necessary to overcome Democratic obstruction of President Trump’s nominees.
If successful, Republicans’ maneuver will effectively whittle down the ability of the minority to register any opposition to executive branch nominees below the cabinet level.
On national security, spending and oversight, the president continues to undercut the legislative branch, and Republicans in charge have done little to stop him.
The university’s president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university’s research funds.
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