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Despite a recent recruitment campaign, the State Department has not allowed laid-off employees to compete for vacant positions.
Jory Heckman @jheckmanWFED

The State Department is finalizing layoffs for hundreds of employees who have been on paid administrative leave for nearly a year and have been kept from returning to their jobs.

The department told nearly 250 Foreign Service employees and about 30 civil service employees on Tuesday that they have been officially separated from their jobs after receiving reduction-in-force notices last summer. Last month, the State Department rolled out a recruitment campaign to join the Foreign Service.

“In April 2025, the secretary determined the department would undertake a reorganization in line with broader efforts to streamline government functions, eliminate redundancy, and enhance accountability, including through a reduction in force. Your reduction in force separation will be effective today, Tuesday, May 5,” the department told employees in a notice obtained by Federal News Network. “Thank you again for your service to the department.”
Stephen Fowler

Two very different decisions Republicans made about gerrymandering will be on display in Tuesday's primary contests in Indiana and Ohio.

After an effort to redraw maps in Indiana failed last year, President Trump and his political operation now seek to oust incumbent Republican state senators who helped defeat the plan.

In Ohio, new maps were required by law since multiple previous versions were struck down by the courts or passed without bipartisan support since 2021. The current map has minor changes to the state's existing boundaries — and not all of them in favor of Republicans.

These primaries come the week after a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and could pave the way for Republican-led states to eliminate majority-minority districts in the South as part of a larger redistricting arms race that has upended politics for 2026 and beyond.
Holly Yan, Dianne Gallagher, Sneha Dhandapani

Investigators from several agencies are scouring the woods of northwestern Tennessee for an armed special forces veteran suspected of trying to kill his wife, the Stewart County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.

Craig Berry, 53, has been on the run since early Friday after he shot his wife in Dover, Tennessee, near the Kentucky border, said Stewart County Sheriff Frankie Gray.

“The suspect fled into the woods near the residence before deputies arrived,” the sheriff’s office has said.

A trail camera captured an image believed to be of Berry wearing camouflage clothing, Gray told CNN on Tuesday, and Berry hasn’t been seen since.

Investigators scaled back the massive search Sunday into Monday due to weather, Gray added. But one particular area, near the crime scene, still needs to be combed over.

“We’re still focusing on pretty much the same area, but we’re going to expand it a little bit,” Gray told CNN. “We’re going to search really, really detailed. Slow and methodical.”

A warrant has been issued accusing Berry of second-degree attempted murder, the sheriff’s office said. His wife has since been released from the hospital, the sheriff said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - A four-count Indictment was issued in U.S. District Court today charging Cole Tomas Allen, 31, with Attempt to Assassinate the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, in connection with the April 25 shooting during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.   

The Indictment returned by the federal grand jury also charges Allen, of Torrance, California, with Assaulting an Officer or Employee of the United States with a Deadly Weapon, with Transportation of a Firearm and Ammunition in Interstate Commerce with the Intent to Commit a Felony, and with Discharging a Firearm During a Crime of Violence.   
By Associated Press

Dallas (AP) — A former FedEx driver was sentenced to death on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl he took from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift.

Jurors in a Fort Worth courtroom decided on Tanner Horner’s punishment after hearing about a month of testimony and evidence that included audio of Athena Strand’s last moments from inside his delivery van. Horner, 34, pleaded guilty to capital murder last month in the 2022 killing just as his trial began. Athena’s body was found two days after she was reported missing from her home in the rural town of Paradise, near Fort Worth.

Horner didn’t visibly react when the judge read the sentence, according to a livestream of the court proceedings.

Jurors found there was a probability Horner would commit criminal violence and be a continuing threat to society. They said there was nothing in the commission of the crime or in Horner’s background to warrant life without parole instead of death.
Robert Davis

President Donald Trump's latest threat to Iran left a legal expert aghast on Monday.

Glenn Kirschner, a former U.S. Attorney, discussed recent reporting on Trump's threat that Iran should be "blown off the face of the Earth" during a new episode of his podcast, "Justice Matters." Trump made the threat in a Truth Social post announcing that the U.S. would guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

"He is a disgrace, a dangerous disgrace to the United States of America and all her people," Kirschner said, adding that such an action would amount to a war crime. "He is an unfit embarrassment to us all."
Story by Robert Davis

Political analysts and observers were aghast on Wednesday as a new report revealed the impetus for President Donald Trump's most recent abrupt reversal.

NBC News reported that Saudi Arabia had revoked the U.S.'s access to its military bases to conduct operations for "Project Freedom," Trump's plan to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz and ward off attacks from Iranian ships. That seemed to help explain why Trump abruptly reversed course about Project Freedom on Tuesday and said his administration would pause the operation to focus on negotiations with the Iranian regime.
Trump-appointed justice just blew up John Roberts’ claim they’re not political actors
Story by Sarah K. Burris

In a rare appearance, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch appeared on a conservative show, exposing Chief Justice John Roberts' ongoing claims of non-partisanship.

On Wednesday, Roberts appeared at a conference for lawyers and judges in Hershey, PA, where he lamented that Americans simply don't understand that he and his colleagues aren't "political actors" making decisions on policy.

“We’re not simply part of the political process, and there’s a reason for that, and I’m not sure people grasp that as much as is appropriate,” Roberts complained.

On the same day, Gorsuch appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show to promote his new book. The interview came amid Kelly's claims that Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter had a "meltdown" and that there was supposedly "tension" between Barack and Michelle Obama.

One of the questions that Kelly asked Gorsuch about was how difficult it is for "right-leaning young people to own their politics in school."

Gorsuch attempted to pivot back to the subject of his book on the Founding Fathers before saying that young people can emulate heroes by looking through the pages of history.

"You're just a little bit older than I am, but when I went to school in the 1980s, you could say whatever you wanted," Kelly complained. "No one cared. Like, the way I remember it anyway, you'd get more pats on the head if you espoused liberal points of view, but it wasn't really required in order to get ahead everywhere the way it seems to be today."
Story by Lesley Abravanel

During a White House event for Military Mother’s Day on Wednesday, May 6, President Donald Trump went on a viral tangent explaining the difference between the homophones "sea" and "see,” sparking some to call him the dumbest president in history —by far.

While discussing a decrease in drug trafficking, the president said, “By sea — by sea, by ocean, by the water, you know.”

He then interrupted his speech to clarify for the audience: “A lot of people say, ‘What do you mean by sea?’ I said, see, like vision? No. It’s sea. S-E-A,” he proudly said.

Frequent Trump foil and California Gov. Gavin Newsom mocked the explanation on X, calling the president "grandpa" and suggesting it was time for another "cognitive test.”

Republicans Against Trump shared the clip and called the POTUS “the dumbest president in history. By far.”
Story by Evan Hill, Jarrett Ley, Alex Horton, Tara Copp, Dan Lamothe

Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began, hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery. The amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported.

The threat of air attacks rendered some of the U.S. bases in the region too dangerous to staff at normal levels, and commanders moved most of the personnel from these sites out of the range of Iranian fire at the start of the war, officials have said.

Since the start of the war on Feb. 28, seven service members have died in strikes on U.S. facilities in the region — six in Kuwait and one in Saudi Arabia — and more than 400 troops have suffered injuries as of late April, the U.S. military said. While most of the wounded returned to duty within days, at least 12 suffered injuries that military officials classified as serious, according to U.S. officials who, among others, spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.

Satellite imagery of the Middle East is unusually difficult to acquire at present. Two of the largest commercial providers, Vantor and Planet, have complied with requests from the U.S. government — their biggest customer — to limit, delay or indefinitely withhold the publication of imagery of the region while the war is ongoing, making it difficult or impossible to assess Iran’s counterstrikes. Those restrictions began less than two weeks into the war. Vantor said its access-control decisions were made independently and were not mandated by the government.

Iranian state-affiliated news agencies, however, have from the start regularly published high-resolution satellite imagery on their social media accounts that claimed to document damage to U.S. sites.
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