Mike Pence has split with President Donald Trump once again. Giving voice to anti-abortion advocates increasingly frustrated with the inaction of the current White House, the former vice president is calling on his old boss to fire Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

The Trump administration’s push to expand control over independent federal agencies comes before a sympathetic Supreme Court that could overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members.

The Supreme Court heard arguments over the president's authority to remove members of many independent agencies that Congress has sought to insulate from political pressure.

The Supreme Court on Monday morning signaled that it was likely to strike down a federal law that restricts the president’s ability to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission. […] The post Court seems likely to side with Trump on president’s power to fire FTC commissioner appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

President Donald Trump's administration is threatening to pull federal funding for public transportation in Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside a commuter train in November.

(This December 13 story has been republished with no changes to the text.) By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices appear ready to endorse President Donald Trump's power to fire a regulatory agency official despite job protections given by Congress.

Video shows Guatemalans setting alight a version of the U.S. president at the Burning of the Devil festival.

A ruling in the president’s favor in the case, which deals with his attempt to remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, would be a major expansion of presidential authority.

But that hands-off approach to covering Barron has probably ended with the New York Times reporting this week that the 19-year-old college student has become an admirer of Andrew Tate, the manosphere influencer with American and British citizenship who is an accused sex trafficker and rapist and who has been under investigation in Romania for allegedly coercing women into pornography and beating and having sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Rap icon Nicki Minaj is facing some intense rage after news broke that she is following President Donald Trump on the social media platform X.

The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it’s progressing at a snail’s pace, forcing many offices to continue to cope with vacancies that could affect winter forecasts.