The Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter Friday threatening the federal funding of any academic institution that considers race in most aspects of student life. The letter ...

WASHINGTON – Thousands of recently hired federal workers were fired Thursday and Friday as President Donald Trump and top White House official Elon Musk escalated efforts to purge the federal ...

The next stage of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce is underway. Agency leaders have been told to begin preparations for large-scale layoffs, known as reductions ...

A federal judge on Friday indefinitely delayed a final ruling on a request by labor unions to block Elon Musk's government efficiency team from accessing internal system data, telling both parties ...

WASHINGTON – Layoffs are underway at multiple federal departments, according to union sources and termination notices reviewed by USA TODAY, as President Donald Trump and top White House ...

Hanna Hickman, a now terminated CFPB worker, told ABC it's a "scary" moment. Hanna Hickman, a now-terminated worker for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told ABC News the last four days ...

President Trump and right-hand man Elon Musk have rolled out a series of moves to cull the federal workforce, forging ahead with numerous methods to fire employees that have already sparked legal ...

Still, those who are ousted have the ability to appeal their case to the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency tasked with protecting federal workers and ensuring firings don’t ...

Probational federal employees who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of the Trump administration's mass firing of government workers expressed shock and anger at the terminations, which they ...

Scores of firings have begun at federal agencies, with terminations of probationary employees underway at the Department of Education and the Small Business Administration, federal employees and ...

President Trump and Elon Musk, who is leading the administration’s downsizing efforts, are pushing for quick and widespread layoffs. But the blitz has run into a complicated set of restrictions ...