Bureau: Number of U.S. job openings little changed in April
June 3 (UPI) -- At 7.4 million, the number of job openings was little changed in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.…
Tribes say the U.S. misappropriated funds to pay for Native American boarding schools
Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations…
Trump’s call to reopen Alcatraz falls flat with tourists, who ask: Why and how?
ALCATRAZ ISLAND, Calif. — The exhibits on Alcatraz Island, the infamous federal prison that decades ago was shuttered and preserved as a national park site and…
FBI reportedly reassigns agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest
WASHINGTON — The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd…
LAFD’s DEI bureau drew the right’s ire. It’s now on the chopping block
In one of his final acts as mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti stood alongside Kristen Crowley, whom he had appointed as the city’s first…
Judge pauses mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
April 18 (UPI) -- Judge Amy Burman Jackson, in an emergency Friday morning hearing, paused the Trump administration layoffs of 1,500 of the 1,700 workers…
Kathleen Sgamma, Trump pick to head Bureau of Land Management, withdraws
April 10 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management, Kathleen Sgamma, withdrew her name from consideration on Thursday. Sen.…
L.A. looks to increase trash fees in each of the next five years
Faced with a nearly $1-billion budget shortfall, Los Angeles elected officials are returning to a tried-and-true formula for weathering difficult financial times: charging more for…
Judge blocks Trump effort to shutter Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Donald Trump News
A federal judge has ordered a halt to attempts under President Donald Trump to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an independent government agency…
Conservative commentator Dan Bongino picked as FBI deputy director
WASHINGTON — Dan Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent who ran unsuccessfully for office and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a…
Gore’s Efficiency Review Studies FBI-DEA Merger : Law: The panel also is considering creation of a single agency to manage nation’s borders. A lone U.S. anti-crime bureau is described as unlikely.
WASHINGTON — Sweeping changes in federal law enforcement, such as folding the Drug Enforcement Administration into the FBI or creating a single agency to manage the nation’s…
Hiltzik: The death of the CFPB, orchestrated by Trump
Back in 2018, during Donald Trump’s first term, his appointed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, gleefully described his plan to emasculate…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to temporarily oversee Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Scott Bessent testifies at a Senate Finance Committee hearing as nominee for secretary of the Treasury at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 17. He was…
Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.Chopra…
Trump administration moving to fire FBI agents involved in investigations of Trump, AP sources say
WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials are moving to fire FBI agents engaged in investigations involving President Trump, two people familiar with the plans said Friday.It was not…
Senate OKs Burgum as Interior secretary, tasked with upping drilling
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as Interior secretary late Thursday after President Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to spearhead the Republican administration’s ambitions to…
Trump’s pick to head FBI, Kash Patel, says the bureau has lost trust
WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, portrayed himself Thursday as the right leader of a law enforcement agency that he said…
Calmes: The case of the missing Hegseth investigation
For folks who have so harshly turned on the FBI for supposedly targeting Donald Trump over the years, Republicans sure are quick to turn to…
Column: Trump pick would turn FBI into Federal Bureau of Retribution
WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as the next director of the FBI, has big plans.He has called for the prosecution of a long…
Opinion: Christopher Wray just broke a prime rule of dealing with Donald Trump
For someone who played a tough-talking executive on TV — “You’re fired!” — Donald Trump sure goes out of his way to avoid such confrontations.…