Hiring for vacant positions in commissaries, child care centers, schools and everywhere else within DOD can continue, two memorandums show.

By Jeff Mason, Andrea Shalal and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration pulled back a proposed spending freeze that threatened to disrupt hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to U.

The White House budget office has ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, according to a memo sent to government agencies on Monday, potentially paralyzing a vast swath of programs and sowing confusion and alarm among the array of groups that depend on them.

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday, the first bill he's signed into law since returning to the White House.

The Laken Riley Act, named for the slain nursing school student who was attacked and killed by a Venezuelan citizen who had entered the U.S. illegally, is the first legislative win of Trump's second term.

Pharmaron, a Chinese biotech firm, is currently using hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to test pharmaceuticals on up to 300 beagles per week in Beijing, according to a federal contract

The state Department of Defense relies on $88 million of federal funding for general operations including the National Guard and the state Emergency Management Agency. But Hawaiʻi National Guard Maj. Gen. Stephen Logan said that there would be no immediate impacts from a temporary freeze.