The order declares that employees will only attain full employment status if their managers review and sign off on their ...

The Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) told fired probationary employees it would no longer pursue complaints they were ...

President Donald Trump is demanding significant changes to the process by which probationary workers are evaluated before ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at strengthening probationary periods for federal employees, ...

About 130 probationary employees at CISA have been on administrative leave since they were reinstated in March.

A Nashville man with prior convictions, including attempted murder, has been charged with possession of a firearm as a felon, ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the Trump administration and upheld the mass firing of tens of thousands of probationary federal employees, granting a request for an emergency ...

The rulings by the Supreme Court and a federal appeals court blocked lower court orders requiring the federal government to ...

A Jefferson County man who was one of some 60 people named across two indictments claiming drug trafficking on the part of two rival Pine Bluff street gangs was sentenced to five years on federal ...

Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — Probationary workers were among the first victims of President Trump's second-term efforts to ...

The executive orders come the same day Trump signed a memorandum that directed the attorney general to crack down on foreign straw donors in U.S. elections.