There are five days in 2025 when flags are scheduled to be flown at half-staff. It's half-mast if you're on a ship.

Presidents Day is Monday, Feb. 17. It honors the birthdays of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

In a series of executive actions, President Donald Trump rolled back numerous diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government ... to 11 annual cultural or historical ...

Presidents’ Day became a federal holiday under President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879 and was originally observed on Washington’s actual birthday each year. In 1968, Congress passed a law that ensured ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants and loans, minutes before the wide-reaching directive was set to go into effect A federal judge has ...

including domestic violence battery by strangulation in 2017 and resisting law enforcement with violence in 2021. Federal law prohibits anyone who has been convicted of a crime punishable by a ...

President Trump’s pledge to upend the federal workforce began rippling through Washington on Tuesday after he moved to force government employees back to the office five days a week and weakened ...

Stimulus checks have come and gone for most people, along with the pandemic. But oddly enough, some 1 million taxpayers are receiving extra cash out of the blue from the IRS. Most of these people ...

Leaders of unions representing federal government employees say President Donald Trump's return-to-office mandate won't make the government more efficient — and could have some unintended ...

President Donald Trump targeted federal workers in an opening act aimed at exerting political control over a sprawling bureaucracy — putting federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees on ...

By Erica L. Green and Hamed Aleaziz Reporting from Washington The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on ...

On Monday, President Donald Trump filed an executive order requiring federal employees who were doing their jobs remotely to return to the office for in-person work. Here's what we know.