THE PURGE: President Trump yesterday fired Air Force Gen. Charles Brown Jr., the chairman of the military Joint Chiefs, upending the tradition that chairman remains in place as administrations change.   Trump did not give a reason for the firing but he has …

YOU’RE FIRED: A federal judge denied an effort by labor unions to block the Trump administration’s mass firings of federal workers.    In line with that, the Internal Revenue Service is expected to sack 6,000 or more people just as tax season is …

FRIENDS LIKE THESE: President Trump on social media attacked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing him of talking the US “into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War …

THE RUSSIA HOUSE: Senior US Russian and American diplomats spent four hours talking about ending the war in Ukraine and repairing relations without Ukraine present at the table. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that both sides agreed to work on a …

SOCIAL INSECURITY: The top official at the Social Security Administration quit over the weekend after members of Elon Musk’s unofficial Department of Government Efficiency sought access to personal data about millions of Americans held by the agency. Michelle King, the acting …

POCKET OF RESISTANCE: The Justice Department filed motions to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams following the resignation of a seventh prosecutor who refused orders to do the same.   The federal prosecutors have become a pocket of resistance …

RESIGNED TO IT: In a rare case of resistance to the new Trump administration, the  interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York and five officials with the federal public integrity unit resigned after being ordered by the Justice Department …

JUST ONE CALL: President Trump got on the phone yesterday with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in his first effort since returning to the White House to end the Russian war on Ukraine. Despite Trump’s many campaign promises that he could end the …

TRANSPARANTLY OPAQUE: Shortly before appearing with his chief cost-cutter in the Oval Office, Donald Trump signed an executive order for agency executives to draw plans for massive staff cuts and giving Tesla billionaire Elon Musk greater authority over the federal workforce. …

CLASH OF POWERS:  In what is shaping up to be Donald Trump’s first clash with the judiciary over the executive powers of the presidency, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the White House has defied his order to release billions …