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HHS employees offered $25K as ‘incentive to voluntarily separate’

Health and Human Services Department (HHS) employees have been offered up to $25,000 to part ways with the agency in order to help it downsize under President Donald Trump’s plans to shrink the federal workforce. In the email sent on Friday, the HHS, which is led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said it has received authorization from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to offer Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments. The OPM ‘allows agencies that...

HHS employees offered $25k as ‘incentive to voluntarily separate’

Health and Human Services Department (HHS) employees have been offered up to $25,000 to part ways with the agency in order to help it downsize under President Donald Trump’s plans to shrink the federal workforce. In the email sent on Friday, the HHS, which is led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said it has received authorization from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to offer Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments. The OPM ‘allows agencies that...

Romania blocks frontrunner from postponed presidential race

Romania’s central election authority has banned Calin Georgescu, a populist candidate and frontrunner, from running in May’s presidential election re-run. ‘Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!’ Georgescu said in a post on X, following the decision. ‘I have one message left! If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall!’ Trump’s administration has taken an interest in Romania’s presidential election since it was canceled in May because of Russian collusion allegations...

Secretary Hegseth says the DOD does not do ‘climate change crap’

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that his department ‘does not do climate change crap,’ but instead focuses on things like warfighting and training. The secretary was responding to a post from CNN’s Haley Britzky, who shared a story about the DOD and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cutting programs in the Pentagon that deal with climate change. ‘The DOD and DOGE have said they plan to cut climate programs in...

DAVID MARCUS: Confusion reigns as Canadians confront Trump’s tariffs

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! CALGARY, Alberta – I hadn’t even gotten off the plane in Calgary before two young men, coming home from a church mission trip, were asking me what was going on with President Donald Trump’s aggressive, on again, off again, tariffs on our neighbor to the north. ‘I like Trump,’ one of them told me, ‘but I don’t understand why he is doing this to Canadians.’ What struck...

Weeks after Epstein file fallout, a new deadline looms in the release of the RFK and MLK files

Sunday marks the second deadline in an effort to release the RFK and MLK assassination files, just weeks after the fallout from the highly anticipated release of the Epstein files by the Department of Justice. In light of President Donald Trump‘s executive order in January to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., the director of national intelligence...

Biden’s ‘autopen signature’ appears on most official docs, raising concerns over who controlled the WH: report

The majority of official documents signed by President Joe Biden allegedly used the same autopen signature, reinvigorating concerns over the former president’s mental acuity and if he ‘actually ordered the signature of relevant legal documents,’ a report published by an arm of the Heritage Foundation found.  ‘WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY,’ the Oversight Project, which is an initiative within the conservative Heritage Foundation that investigates the government to bolster transparency, posted to X...

Canadians feel ‘under economic attack,’ frustration with US over Trump tariffs, annexation talk: ambassador

Canadians feel ‘frustrated’ with the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s talk of annexing the country along with his tariffs on Canadian goods, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman said Sunday. Hillman detailed the frustration that Canadians are feeling with their neighbor during an appearance on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation,’ saying its citizens ‘don’t really appreciate it.’ ‘They’re getting a little bit frustrated with that kind of rhetoric,’ Hillman said, referring to Trump’s talk of...

JD Vance says he was confronted by pro-Ukrainian protesters while walking with toddler daughter

Vice President JD Vance said Saturday he was confronted by pro-Ukrainian protesters while he was out walking with his 3-year-old daughter.  ‘Today while walking my 3 year old daughter a group of ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters followed us around and shouted as my daughter grew increasingly anxious and scared,’ Vance posted Saturday afternoon on X.  ‘I decided to speak with the protesters in the hopes that I could trade a few minutes of conversation for them...

Republicans call for Trump to cut off American Bar Association

Several Republican senators have taken issue with the American Bar Association (ABA) and are calling for President Donald Trump to take drastic action against the group. In a letter to ABA President William Bay, lawmakers said the group, which plays a key role in judicial nominations, had become ‘biased and ideologically captured.’ Now, those lawmakers want President Trump to ‘remove the ABA from the judicial nomination process entirely.’ Sen. Eric Schmitt, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen....