U.S. & World

Forced leaves pulling all but a fraction of staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development off the job around the world have begun Friday. State Department officials and others were appealing to the Trump administration to allow more USAID workers to remain on the job at least temporarily, including to manage the return home of thousands...

U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the jobless rate slipped to 4% to start 2025 and the government revised November and December payrolls higher. The first job report of Donald Trump’s second presidency on Friday suggested that he inherited a labor market that is solid but unspectacular. Economists had expected about 170,000 new...

Croke Park in Dublin is the latest international venue to host the NFL.

Trump’s flood of executive orders has led to over two dozen lawsuits to date and a number of court decisions halting — at least temporarily — some of his actions.

The Westminster Kennel Club dog show is back for a 149th year. It starts Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

A federal judge in Boston will consider a request from 18 states to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally. The hearing on Friday comes after a federal judge in Seattle blocked the effort and decried what he described as the administration’s treatment of...

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says that one U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines.

A search is underway in Alaska after a plane with 10 people on board never arrived in Nome when scheduled, officials said according to NBC News.

USAID will place almost all its foreign aid workers on leave, causing some health experts to sound the alarm about what it could mean here at home.

Thousands of USAID employees learned this week that they would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. on Friday amid slashes to the federal workforce.

Crews helped battle the deadly Los Angeles-area wildfires, and now some worry a shortfall will weaken response capabilities as fire season approaches.

The family of the boy who protected his sister from falling debris when the medical jet crashed in Northeast Philadelphia is recovering well, according to his family.

Across the country, health clinics and nonprofit organizations largely serving rural and low-income patients have found themselves unable to access previously allocated federal funds, as a short-lived government funding freeze has continued to disrupt daily operations for a range of programs.