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An appeals court on Friday refused to freeze a California judge’s order halting the Trump administration from downsizing the federal workforce, which means that Department of Government Efficiency-led cuts remain on pause for now.In the 2-1 ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the White House’s request to freeze the injunction.   “The Executive Order at issue here far exceeds the President’s supervisory powers under the Constitution,” the appeals court wrote. “The President enjoys significant removal power with respect to the appointed officers of federal agencies.”The administration had sought an emergency stay of an injunction issued by U.S. Judge Susan Illston…

Court rulings this week suggest Trump’s lawless actions will not go unnoticed. Ad Policy US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on May 28, 2025.(Chris Kleponis / CNP / Bloomberg) There are weeks when, it seems, everything comes to a head. This week could well be viewed, in hindsight, as one of those—as the moment the wheels started to come off the Trump train. On Wednesday, a panel of federal judges for the US Court of International Trade ruled that the vast majority of Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs were illegal. The two lawsuits against…

Approximately 250 million bees escaped after a tractor-trailer carrying more than 70,000 pounds of pollinator hives rolled over Friday in northern Washington state, authorities said.The commercial truck hauling the honeybees overturned at about 4 a.m. in Whatcom County, Washington, which borders Canada’s British Columbia, the sheriff’s office said in a social media post. It’s unclear what caused the truck to roll over.   The commercial truck hauling the 250 million bees overturned at about 4 a.m. in Whatcom County, Washington. Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office The hives came off the truck shortly after 9 a.m., which freed the bees. The incident…

President Trump announced that he would be doubling tariffs on steel to 50% as he visited a U.S. Steel mill in the Pittsburgh suburbs Friday, a week after teasing a “planned partnership” between the company and its Japanese competitor Nippon Steel. “We are going to be imposing a 25% increase. We’re going to bring it from 25% to 50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States,” he said.The Nippon deal will allow U.S. Steel’s headquarters to remain in Pennsylvania, according to Mr. Trump, who characterized the…

President Trump issued an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television stations to withhold funds from PBS. On Friday, PBS — led by Paula Kerger (right) — and Lakeland PBS of Minnesota sued. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images, Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images, Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images PBS and a public television station in rural Minnesota filed suit on Friday against President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the network. The suit alleges Trump’s order is unlawful, exceeding his authority…

The investigation into the bitcoin torture case in New York City has revealed gruesome details about the alleged kidnapping and beating of an Italian man for his fortune in the cryptocurrency.What we know about the bitcoin torture caseThe unidentified 28-year-old man managed to escape from his alleged captors on May 23 in the affluent SoHo neighborhood in Manhattan, according to the New York Police Department. Bloodied and not wearing shoes, the man then found an NYPD traffic agent, who alerted police, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.Two cryptocurrency investors, 37-year-old John Woeltz and 33-year-old William Duplessie, have been charged…

From Iran-contra to Iraq war WMD lies to Trumpism, this right-wing pundit kept subverting democracy.  Ad Policy Michael Ledeen, a key figure in launching the sale of US-made weapons to Iran, is pictured in his Chevy Chase, Maryland, home, August 13, 1987.(Scott Stewart / AP Photo) I learned what a liar Michael Ledeen was in 2004 when I cowrote a profile of him for The Boston Globe. In an e-mail interview with Ledeen, I found him to be remarkably modest in his claims for himself, which would have been charming if it weren’t one of his many manipulative lies. Asked…

Washington — The Supreme Court said Friday that it will allow the Trump administration to terminate a program that allowed more than 500,000 Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans to temporarily live and work in the United States while a legal battle over the effort to end the legal protections proceeds.The high court agreed to grant a request for emergency relief sought by the Justice Department in response to a federal district court order halting Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s decision to revoke en masse a grant of humanitarian parole to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela through a…

Taylor Swift announced Friday she has bought back her first six studio albums, the masters of which were sold to celebrity manager Scooter Braun in 2019 and later to Shamrock Capital.”I’ve been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening,” Swift wrote in a letter shared on her website. “I really get to say these words: All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me.”After the masters were sold in 2019, Swift said she would rerecord the albums, so she would own the updated versions. She has released…

A federal court blocked President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports this week, but the administration has promised to appeal. The on-again-off-again import taxes have been a source of frustration for many businesses that don’t know what their costs will be from day to day. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Many American small-business owners have been riding a rollercoaster of tariff-related feelings: worry, confusion, anxiety, frustration. This week, there are new emotions. “I feel a lot of relief and hope,” says Sarah Wells, whose Virginia company sells breast-pump backpacks and other maternity…