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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 21: Elon Musk listens as reporters ask U.S. President Donald Trump and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa questions during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Relations between the two countries have been strained since Trump signed an executive order in February that claimed white South Africans are the victims of government land confiscation and race-based “genocide,” while admitting some of those Afrikaners as refugees to the United States. Trump also halted all foreign aid to South Africa and expelled the country’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ebrahim Rasool. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s DOGE playbook was a ‘bull in a China shop’ for federal agencies—and it’s hard to reverse

By Gary Fields and The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES – 2024/07/04: Attendees watch the Independence Day fireworks display along the National Mall in Washington, DC. (Photo by Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

There’s a brewing clash between Trump and DOGE with cost-cutting at odds with the president’s long-stated dream

By Claire Rush, Gary Fields, and others

A young woman outside the Sydney Yates building that houses the Forest Service

Young people say they feel crushed after Trump killed the federal fellows program, cutting off a crucial pipeline for some of the ‘brightest minds in America’

By Gary Fields, Christine Fernando, and others

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks during a news conference at NTSB headquarters Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Helicopter crew in collision with plane may not have heard key instruction — ‘It was stepped on’

By Gary Fields, Josh Funk, and others

FILE – The seal on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen June 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Racist post-election text messages telling Black Americans to report to plantations prompt FBI investigation

By Ayanna Alexander, Ali Swenson, and others

FILE – Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Almost half of U.S. voters are worried about violent attempts to overturn November election results

By Gary Fields, Ali Swenson, and others

Linda Solomon, a client at Mother’s Nest in Macon, Ga., poses for a photo on June 22, 2024. She does not intend to vote because she feels the lives of the poor don’t improve regardless of what party controls the White House and government. (AP Photo/Gary Fields)

Poor people in battleground Georgia see no reason to vote and their decision could swing election

By Gary Fields and The Associated Press

Activists pray for the safety of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and other politicians at Lafayette Square near the White House, Sunday, July 14, 2024, in Washington, one day after an assassination attempt on Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

’Tone it down!’: Civic leaders, pastors and elected officials call for a calming of toxic political climate after Donald Trump shooting

By Lisa Mascaro, Gary Fields, and others

Donald Trump surrounded by Army cadets

Trump hints in campaign that he’d deploy the military to NYC and Chicago ‘crime dens’ using the Insurrection Act: ‘The next time, I’m not waiting’

By Gary Fields and The Associated Press

FILE – President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. The indictment against former President Donald Trump involving a payoff to suppress claims of an extramarital affair is raising concerns that it could undermine public confidence in what many see as far more important investigations into whether he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Experts say Trump’s indictment in the hush-money case is an ‘appetizer’ compared to other investigations that could carry weightier charges

By Gary Fields and The Associated Press

TOPSHOT – Demonstrators attend a rally calling for an extension of the state’s eviction ban until 2022 and the cancellation of rent, in lower Manhattan, New York city on August 11, 2021. – Under pressure from progressive Democrats, US health authorities declared a new moratorium on evictions until October in much of the country, citing public health risks posed by the pandemic. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Federal appeals court upholds new CDC eviction ban

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Gary Fields, and others