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US Senate committee to consider nomination of Republic Airways CEO to head FAA

5 Jun 2025

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee said on Wednesday it would hold a June 11 hearing on President Donald Trump’s nomination of Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford to head the Federal Aviation Administration. Bedford, a pilot and industry veteran of more than 30 years, was nominated in March and previously headed …

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Trump plans to discontinue TSA’s ‘Quiet Skies’ program, CBS News reports

5 Jun 2025

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump plans to end the Transportation Security Administration’s “Quiet Skies” surveillance program, a CBS News reporter said on Wednesday on X, citing unidentified sources.The closure of the program could be announced as early as Thursday as aides have discussed how to shutter it without impacting security, CBS reported, citing unidentified U.S. …

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Bail hearing over smuggled fungus scheduled for Chinese researcher

5 Jun 2025

By Maria Tsvetkova, Heather Schlitz and Julie Ingwersen (Reuters) -A Michigan court has scheduled a bail hearing on Thursday for a Chinese researcher accused of smuggling biological samples into the United States. Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend Zunyong Liu, 34, who conducted biological studies in the same field, were accused of smuggling a fungus into the …

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U.S. judge temporarily blocks deportation of family of Colorado attack suspect

5 Jun 2025

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Colorado on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting the wife and five children of the Egyptian man charged in a fire-bomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. District Court Judge Gordon Gallagher said in an order that deporting the family members, who include children ages …

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Judge blocks Trump administration’s effort to eliminate Job Corps

5 Jun 2025

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday temporarily stopped the Trump administration from moving ahead with an effort to eliminate the Job Corps, the largest U.S. job training program for low-income youth. U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan issued a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit filed by a trade …

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Trump tax bill would increase number of uninsured by 11 million, CBO says

5 Jun 2025

(Reuters) -The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday projected that President Donald Trump’s tax-cut bill, as passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, would increase the number of uninsured by 10.9 million in ten years. Another 5.1 million people would lose access to health insurance over that period under current law, the CBO said. (Reporting …

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Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says

5 Jun 2025

By Jasper Ward and Helen Coster WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday it has notified a university accreditation body that it believes Columbia University had violated federal anti-discrimination laws by its alleged failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.  The alleged violation means that Columbia has not met the standards …

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Fired NTSB vice chair sues Trump over removal from office

5 Jun 2025

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The fired vice chair of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board sued President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying his removal from office was illegal and threatened the independent agency’s safety mission. Alvin Brown, a Democrat who was the first-ever African American elected mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, was designated as vice …

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DOGE grapples with leadership vacuum post-Musk departure

5 Jun 2025

By Bo Erickson, Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Department of Government Efficiency, the brainchild of Elon Musk that upended Washington with its rapid-fire drive to slash thousands of federal jobs and cut costs, is effectively leaderless now that the billionaire and his deputy have stepped down, U.S. lawmakers heard on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump’s …

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US State Department’s planned layoffs may violate court order, judge says

5 Jun 2025

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal judge in California on Wednesday said her recent ruling barring President Donald Trump’s administration from laying off tens of thousands of federal employees likely blocks the U.S. State Department’s reorganization plan that includes 2,000 job cuts. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco during a virtual meeting in …

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