Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors
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Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday taking steps to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under 19, directing agencies to take a variety of steps to curtail surgeries, hormone therapy and other regimens. The order continued to chip away…

Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject RFK Jr. for Health Secretary
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Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject RFK Jr. for Health Secretary

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Caroline Kennedy wrote a scathing letter to key senators on Tuesday, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” addicted to attention from airing dangerous views on vaccinations and who is unfit to be the nation’s health secretary. She urged lawmakers, who…

Federal Spending Freeze Does Not Apply to Student Loans and Pell Grants
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Federal Spending Freeze Does Not Apply to Student Loans and Pell Grants

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The U.S. Department of Education said in a statement on Tuesday morning that the memo sent to government agencies the day before calling for a broad pause on federal spending did not apply to federal student loans or Pell grants. That money will…

Trump Stocks E.P.A. With Oil, Gas and Chemical Lobbyists
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Trump Stocks E.P.A. With Oil, Gas and Chemical Lobbyists

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical industries, many of whom worked in his first administration to weaken climate and pollution protections. Lee Zeldin, Mr. Trump’s choice to…

Who Are the Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Pete Hegseth?
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Who Are the Three Republican Senators Who Voted Against Pete Hegseth?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Late Friday night, all but three Republican senators voted to confirm President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, creating a 50-to-50 deadlock that required Vice President JD Vance to come break the tie. But close followers of the Senate likely weren’t surprised…

Senate to Vote on Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation, With Outcome Uncertain
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Senate to Vote on Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation, With Outcome Uncertain

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Senate barreled on Friday toward a late-night vote on whether to confirm Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, with the outcome still uncertain as a handful of Republicans weighed whether to back President Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon. Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation…

Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife
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Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines An ex-sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth’s submitted a sworn statement to senators on Tuesday that accused Mr. Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, of being so “abusive” toward his second wife that she once hid in a closet from him and had…

Rubio Oversees Halt to Foreign Aid and Meets With Asian Diplomats on Day 1
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Rubio Oversees Halt to Foreign Aid and Meets With Asian Diplomats on Day 1

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Secretary of State Marco Rubio walked into the State Department on Tuesday for the first time in his new job, taking the reins of the main agency carrying out U.S. foreign policy at a time of violent global crises and as other nations…

‘A Quiet Force’: Harris Returns Home After Making History in Washington
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‘A Quiet Force’: Harris Returns Home After Making History in Washington

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris left Washington on Monday the way she entered her role on the same day five years ago: making history. After President Trump’s inauguration, Ms. Harris headed to Joint Base Andrews to take her last official flight home…

For Trump, a Vindication for the Man and His Movement
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For Trump, a Vindication for the Man and His Movement

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Donald John Trump completed an extraordinary return to power on Monday as he was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States and promised an immediate blitz of actions to begin drastically changing the course of the country and usher in…