Parties must clear a 5% electoral threshold in Germany to win seats in the national parliament or at least three of the party's candidates must win their local elections outright. Parties must ...

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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 ...

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 – 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 ...

In the latest federal shake-up, the Trump administration ordered the heads of several agencies across the government to start firing employees who were still within their probationary period ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS VIRTUAL TOWN HALL HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY, ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FREEZE ON FEDERAL FUNDS. BUT MOST OF ALL, WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH FEDERAL WORKERS. I ...

After surviving teen homelessness and domestic violence in West Virginia, 23-year-old Ireland Daugherty was finally feeling stable: She had her own apartment, a job and was studying for a four ...

President Trump is moving swiftly to shrink the U.S. federal government — the nation's largest employer — a move that he has said will slash wasteful spending and make the nation's civil ...