Less than two months in, 2025 has already proved a continuation of the turbulent time for Google’s workforce, following job cuts in each of the last two years. The latest round of cuts was ...

So Republican politicians, sometimes with fingers crossed behind their backs, frequently promise not to cut Medicare or its cash-benefit counterpart, Social Security. You can see that promise in ...

WHITEFISH BAY, WI — Officers had help to help a dog out of a ‘ruff spot.’ Lil Murphy’s owners tried getting the jar off his head for over an hour before taking him to the vet, which was ...

New York members of Congress called on Trump to reverse the cuts to jobs and research funding. "My colleagues and I are eager to get back to work on Monday for our 9/11 heroes who we are so ...

A developing Trump administration plan for deep staff cuts and drastic changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency is raising alarm among some state officials and even Republican lawmakers ...

The Trump administration is expected to cut staffing in the office that manages federal funding for long-term disaster recovery. The cuts could delay the delivery of $1.4 billion in CDBG-DR ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — were apparently spared by the cuts made over the ...

Among the federal government cuts being made by the cleaver-wielding Elon Musk, the most unkind is the elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), our country's primary ...

President Trump issued an order Thursday aimed at preventing taxpayer money from supporting immigrants without legal status. The order says it will end "all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to come up with plans to cut 8% from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to sources familiar with his plans.