Eric Tucker

1 week ago | argus-press.com | Eric Tucker |Aamer Madhani

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's removal of national security adviser Mike Waltz brings further disruption to a national security team that has already endured scrutiny over using the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive military operations as well as mounting questions over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the firing of the four-star general who led the National Security Agency.

2 weeks ago | wvgazettemail.com | Josh Boak |Chris Megerian |Will Weissert |Eric Tucker

His actions target the architecture of the New Deal, the Great Society, and the Reagan Republican orthodoxy of free trade and strong international alliances. He has taken direct aim at law, media, public health and culture, attempting to bring all to heel. Here are some key takeaways from the most consequential start of a term of an American presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Trump has tried to bend the U.S. economy to his will. But one force is unbowed: the financial markets.

3 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Tara Copp |Eric Tucker |Greg Jaffe |Eric Schmitt

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled the airstrike information he posted into Signal chats with his wife, brother and dozens of others from a secure communications channel used by U.S. Central Command, raising new questions as to whether the embattled Pentagon head leaked classified information over an open, unsecured network.

3 weeks ago | pressenterpriseonline.com | Michael Kunzelman |Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a blistering order that ratchets up the escalating conflict between the government’s executive and judicial branches.

3 weeks ago | niagara-gazette.com | Michael Kunzelman |Eric Tucker |Alanna Durkin Richer

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be shocking,” a federal appeals court said Thursday in a scathing order. A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously refused to suspend a judge’s decision to order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her instruction to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return.