Trump administration

More than 100 former prosecutors voiced their opposition to Ed Martin leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. and called for a public hearing to address his support for Jan. 6 rioters and past claims about the 2020 election. “Martin is an egregiously unqualified political hack who has never served either as a prosecutor or judge and who has no…

The U.S. shrimp industry is eager for tariffs, which would raise the price of the foreign shrimp that force shrimpers to slash their prices.

Businesses say tariffs add to expenses and eat into profits, but they are wary of losing sales if they try to pass all of the burden on to customers.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says sending a Maryland man with protected status to prison in El Salvador almost three weeks ago was an “administrative error.”

Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul.

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it was an “administrative error” sending a Maryland man with protected legal status to El Salvador. He is married and has a 5-year-old son with his wife.

Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race marks the second time in two years that the bench’s ideological majority will be at stake.

Residents reacted as the removal process for Black Lives Matter Plaza comes to a close. News4’s Jessica Albert reports.

School districts around the country are figuring out how to pay some bills after the Department of Education announced it won’t pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in promised COVID-19 relief funds. Congress approved the funding with a deadline of January 2025 to spend it, and the Biden administration allowed states to apply for an extension to January 2026….

The annual Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) was very different this year coming on the heels of the Trump administration’s flurry of actions restricting the rights of transgender people. TDOV annually celebrates transgender people and raises awareness on discrimination internationally. President Donald Trump’s actions to restrict the rights of transgender people started in his first term and picked up...

Federal officials say a University of Minnesota student was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of drunken driving, not student protests.

School officials around the country are figuring out how to pay their bills after the Department of Education announced it won’t pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in promised COVID-19 relief funds. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

The annual Trans Day of Visibility celebrates the transgender people and raises awareness on discrimination. This year’s celebration is very different as the rally lands on the heels of the Trump administration’s flurry of actions. News4’s Drew Wilder talked to supporters and members of the community. 

The work to remove D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza is nearly complete. News4 video shows solid paint where huge yellow letters spelled out “Black Lives Matter” three weeks earlier. “It’s really sad to see that the whole block has been removed because it shows there’s not so much of a difference between federal government and D.C. the city anymore,”...

The removal of D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza is nearly complete. Here’s a look, plus info on what’s next.

President Donald Trump has pardoned a Virginia man whose sentence already was commuted for his convictions stemming from the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Public funding for agricultural research was already declining. Now Trump has frozen or paused support for a variety of research programs.

Thousands of National Institutes of Health employees returned to offices for in-person work and were met with words of encouragement and songs of support. “We all benefit from the work the NIH does,” a supporter told News4’s Joseph Olmo. 

Top allies of Donald Trump downplayed the president saying he was “not joking” about possibly seeking a third term.