Some 2.4 million employees worked for the US government before Trump's second term began. The Trump administration will shed about 317,000 employees this year, its human resources chief said in a statement late Friday. That figure is higher than the 300,000 estimate Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor gave earlier this year. Kupor provided the new figure in a blog post. Downsizing part of Trump's campaign to shrink federal civilian workforceThe downsizing is part of US President Donald Trump's campaign to shrink the federal civilian workforce, which he says is bloated and ineff...

Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley criticized Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump's illegally appointed prosecutor, after a judge dismissed two cases she brought against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. After United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled that the indictments against Comey and James were invalid on Monday, Fox News host John Roberts noted that Attorney General Pam Bondi had issued a memo to declare that she had "ratified" the indictments in an attempt to insulate the charges in case Halligan was found to be illega...

Noah Schnapp and Brett Gelman both showed support for Israel, with Gelman even featuring in a sketch for Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet (Wonderful Country). While fans of the hugely successful Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things are planning watch parties all over the world as the first episodes of its fifth and final season drop on Wednesday night, others are urging a boycott – because two Netflix stars have voiced support for Israel and visited the country. Noah Schnapp, who plays Will, the pivotal character whose disappearance kicked off the series, has both Russian and Moroccan Jewi...

Chaostage bei der SPD Düstere VorbotenDer Doppel-Rücktritt der Berliner SPD-Chefs knapp ein Jahr vor der Wahl in Berlin kommt für die SPD zur Unzeit. Doch auch anderswo türmen sich die Probleme für die Parteispitze. Für die SPD brechen schwere Zeiten an. Am Tag nach dem Rücktritt der beiden Berliner SPD-Landesvorsitzenden Martin Hikel und Nicola Böcker-Giannini muss deren designierter Nachfolger Steffen Krach ausgerechnet zum Zahnarzt. Ein bisschen bohren, aber alles ohne Schmerzen, lässt er wissen. Und doch scheint es, als passe dieser Termin für Krach in eine Reihe weiterer unangenehmer Term...