About 15,000 IRS employees have been identified for possible termination as early as next week as the White House seeks to find cost savings across the government, ABC News has learned. A sign for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seen on its building on Feb.

In our news wrap Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Modi visited the White House hours after President Trump signed a plan to impose "reciprocal" tariffs on many of America's trading partners, a federal judge paused Trump's executive order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth and Hamas said it will release three Israeli hostages on Saturday allowing the ceasefire with Israel to hold.

White House officials bristle at court rulings against Trump’s orders and actions. Worries that the U.S. could be headed toward a constitutional cri

Jordan's King Abdullah is scheduled to meet with Trump at the White House, becoming the first Arab leader to do since he returned to power last month. Jordan has served as a humanitarian lifeline for civilians in Gaza throughout the Israel -Hamas conflict and already hosts millions of registered Palestinian refugees.

U.S. President Donald Trump is doubling down on his demand that Jordan permanently take in Palestinians while the U.S. takes over Gaza. Tuesday’s White House meeting came amid a possible collapse of the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.

President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with 14 prominent American evangelical Christian leaders at Blair House, across the street from the White House. Figures such as Jentezen Franklin,

With President Trump's arrival in the White House, the restrictions on heavy bomb shipments to Israel, imposed by his predecessor Joe Biden, were lifted.

For America’s Jews – and Israel’s, and Americans generally for that matter – Trump’s return is the best news since Joe Biden entered the White House in 2020. And that’s reason to give than

Hamas is playing games with releasing hostages — just like it has been doing since the war began. Brett McGurk served as deputy assistant to the president and White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa from 2021 to 2025.