Donald Trump put a temporary pause on federal grants and halted foreign aid, among a slew of other efforts, to cut down on ...

Abrupt firings, senior officials demoted, and career employees left reeling -- US President Donald Trump is taking a ...

At the department’s headquarters in downtown Washington, lawyers described the uncertainty that has rippled across the agency ...

A deliberate effort by the president and his team to roll out an unceasing flow of initiatives has knocked his rivals off balance in the first days of the new administration.

The outgoing Biden administration hasn’t designated a senior official to act as defense secretary during the transition, ...

President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has not ...

The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was leading NASA on an acting basis.

Donald Trump returned to power as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, saying in his second inaugural address ...

The list of people Trump approved on Monday after he was sworn in will carry out the first acts of the president's second ...

A longtime FBI deputy director who had been expected to replace Director Christopher Wray on an acting basis is retiring from ...

Donald Trump has named the acting heads of national-security agencies—all career federal executives—to serve until ...

The main opposition Democratic Party criticized the actions of the presidential security detail and said Choi Sang-mok, South Korea’s second acting president since Yoon’s impeachment on Dec. 1 ...