Executive actions aims to test limits of president’s authority and perhaps win backing from conservative supreme court Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday in Washington DC. (Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images) Donald Trump’s spate of executive orders include many aimed at expanding his presidential powers in areas that pose threats to the rule of law and democratic norms in the US, say legal experts. Trump’s orders include the abru

Exclusive: Bobby Scott sounds alarm over ‘void of oversight’ as Doge accesses sensitive data within US agencies Bobby Scott at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in 2016. (Evan Vucci | AP) Elon Musk’s blitz through the US federal government has triggered a “constitutional emergency”, a senior Democrat has warned, demanding the launch of an impartial investigation into billionaire tycoon’s access to sensitive data. Robert C “Bobby” Scott, ranking member of the Ho

The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all Illustration: Thomas Pullin | The Guardian An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or above could not have caused more carnage. Recent floods in Asia and droughts in Africa have been catastrophic, yet they have inflicted less damage and affected fewer people than the sudden withdrawal of billions of dollars of US aid from the world’s most vol

Federal workers alarmed at Heritage Foundation-backed watchdog’s list of civil servants in health equity roles The watchlist of federal employees in healthcare is the third such catalogue that the conservative group has published in the past four months. (J David Ake | Getty Images) On Tuesday evening, a federal government employee was shocked to find a watchlist that included the names, photos and work history of 57 mostly Black employees from a number of healthcare agencies

The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, meeting in person with another world leader for the first time since returning to power. President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a news conference at the White House on Tuesday. [Eric Lee | The New York Times] Follow reactions to President Trump’s Gaza proposal . President Trump declared on Tuesday that the United States should seize control of Gaza and permanently displace the e